Greetings to all. After much anguish, the gals and I selected the following to participate in the week-long (August 7-15) session: Bruce Meyer, Maggie Megaw, Mike Godwin, Michael Barker, Clayton Stromberger, Matt Kozusko, Jeff Larsen, Craig Hurwitz, Robert Jackson, Susan Todd, Joy Howard, David Ziegler, Robert Pees, Kathy Blackbird, Jayne Suhler, Madge Darlington, Mary Collins, Alice Gordon, Gail Macdonald, Terry Galloway, Kirsten Kern.
A number of folks have committed to the "long-weekend" (August 12-15) experience: Dali Clark, Leigh Hopper Oberholzer, Tara Kirkland, Don Brode, Jon Watson, Lizz Ketterer, Yvette Scott, Robert Stevens, Lynn McGuire, Robert Faires, Valerie Malone, and Steve Price. If I have omitted someone who wrote me about participating, please let me know. And if any of you wish to join this group, there is still room for you at Wagner House dormitory at Winedale at the cost of $105.00 for the three night stay. Let me know.
It is now time for the week-long group to be thinking about scenes to perform. So let's get going. Please send your suggestions to me and the gals. I will not have too much time to address the choices since I am already deep into Camp Shakespeare planning and will be pretty much out of the picture June 6-July 11. I'm hoping that one of the gals has time to record your suggestions, send them to the rest of us.
Further, I think that we should be open to suggestions from the "at large" list Mike has compiled. One thing the "committee" would really like to do is consider scenes this "rare" company has never performed or perhaps never seen or read. So toss aside the MND "oldies" for a while for some fresh challenges.
The "long-weekend" folks will participate in another way, through individual or small group performances which will be celebrated throughout reunion day, August 14. E.g., I've asked Robert Faires to perform a sequence from his one-man Henry 5; Lizz Ketterer, to play some music. As we get a bit closer to the reunion, I hope to hear from these people about what they are planning.
The kids attending Camp Shakespeare this summer will be performing A Midsummer Night's Dream at Winedale on June 10 and As You Like It on July 10, both Saturday matinees at 1 p.m. We hope you can attend these performances.
It is great to be hearing from so many of you about where you are, what you have been doing.
Cheers,
Doc