I have read all of Shakespeare's plays, and now I am working on seeing all of them. I've seen many, even most, but there are a couple that are not done very often so I haven't seen them. This year at Shakespeare Festival, two of the plays I haven't seen were being performed. I told Kent early in the year that I was going to Cedar City with or without people but that there were some other funny things playing and I thought that if we all went, we would have a good time.
So as not to take any days off of work, I scheduled our trip over Labor Day. We drove down on Saturday morning and went to see a matinee. Well two separate matinees. I went to see Coriolanus, a play that nobody else was interested in seeing but that I needed to check off my list. Everybody else went to see Emma. We went and had Thai food for dinner, then returned in the evening to see The Play That Goes Wrong. It is a hilarious play-within-a-play where everything that could go wrong does. The leading lady is rendered unconscious, the corpse won't play dead, the actors trip over everything, and the set falls apart! We laughed and laughed and laughed. The kids were so interested in what was happening behind the scenes. One of the actors was supposedly the backstage person and it was very funny to see her on stage being freaked out about what was supposed to be happening or not supposed to be happening and how she dealt with it. It was just a funny play.
We are staying in an Airbnb which has been nice. It's a house that we rented with a kitchen and three separate bedrooms so the children don't have to sleep with us. On Sunday, we got up and went to church. We met up with Tess and went to her ward. It was fun to be with the young people. It was fast and testimony meeting and it was nice to hear the testimonies of the young single adults. Once church was over, we hopped in the car and drove down to St. George to visit with Craig and Monica. We don't see them very often, and it was fun to visit. We talked and talked and enjoyed catching up. We returned to Cedar City for a quiet evening at the house. We played a very funny game called Throw, Throw Burrito. Isabella asked for it for Christmas.
Monday we were seeing a matinee. Kent and I were seeing Timon of Athens, a play we knew the children were not going to be interested in, so they went to the movie while we went to the play. We wandered around Cedar City in the morning before going to the movie and the play. Our play was interesting though not my favorite Shakespeare play. Probably why it isn't frequently performed. Isabella liked her movie, Barbie, and Brandt sort of liked his, Blue Beetle. After the movie they met up with Charlie and Mikayla and baby Boston at a park. Tess was there too with her dog but left before we got to see her. They visited and played and got ice cream. When we were done with the play we hopped in the car and drove home.
We packed quite a bit into the long weekend, and I checked two plays off my list. It was a success all around.
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