I don’t like Shakespeare. Mostly it’s our outsized reverence for Shakespeare that I don’t like. Reverence for anything makes me roll my eyes. A preciousness for the old where it leaves less room for the new makes me suspicious. The bard takes up a lot of space, still. Would he be so popular if we had to pay his estate for the rights to produce his plays? Not likely. We don’t like paying artists these days.
I went to Stratford to see Goblin Macbeth. It’s a truncated version of the Scottish play where three goblins play all the roles and do the music and the sound effects and it was very good. From the word go they had the audience in the palm of their hands.
It was created by old friends Rebecca Northan and Bruce Horak. We met at university a 1000 years ago. They’ve been making theatre ever since.
That night Rebecca and I stayed up late and spoke about the good old days in Calgary, Keith Johnstone, the Loose Moose and about teaching and the little wisdom we’ve gained. She spoke of old lady necks and I didn’t have to speak of erectile dysfunction because something inside me reminds me that I talk about it all the time on podcasts and blogs and I could just sit and listen once in while.
To come all this way only to realize that it’s all about sitting there and listening.
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Jason Bryden in Toronto
