This summer, the Livermore Shakespeare Festival presents Romeo and Juliet and, as previously mentioned on this feed, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. Interestingly, The Real Thing is in revival at The Old Vic. Here's a snippet from the Times review:
This is a quality revival of one of Stoppard’s finest, full of art, love and wit. It’s also full of humour, a less showy and kindlier thing, which ought to be etymologically related to “human” and “humane”, but sadly isn’t. There’s a sharp eye for foibles and failings, and a generous, forgiving sense of the human race as a community of lovable losers. [more]
I can scarcely wait to see how it is staged in Livermore this summer. The festival is becoming known for a striking sense of design. Last summer, A Midsummer's Night Dream was staged as steampunk and it was striking and original and added much to the play.
I've volunteered my cricket ball and bat to the production.
