A Mirror up to Nature
by Rodger Barton
shakespeareoutloud.ca/mirror.html
presented by Shakespeare Out Loud INC.
from Toronto
2006 Toronto Fringe: CBC Radio - Five stars; Richard
Ouzounian, Toronto Star - Highly recommended; Eye Weekly - Barton's dense
descriptions of morbidly fascinating Elizabethan London are captivating.
Shakespeare wrote plays to become rich! He achieved his goal by holding mirrors
up to the lives that his Elizabethan audiences lived. With material gathered
over 30 years, this high-octane, one-man show consists of strolls through
London, a visit to the Globe, a bear baiting, a public hanging, a minister's
rant against the theatre, characters and excesses at court, a squire's life, a
prize at sea, smells of the day, a thief's scam, huge, hungry plague graves,
and a day in the life of Sir Andrew Aguecheek; plus speeches of Hamlet, Edmund,
Shylock and Jacques. “Join this Stratford
veteran as he reveals the colorful and dangerous world Shakespeare implored his
actors to hold a mirror up to.
Cast: Rodger Barton
Audience: General Audience
Venue #8 - Tarragon Extra Space
30 Bridgman Avenue
(North of Dupont, East of Bathurst
)
56 min