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<\/td>\n Every summer I take my foreign law students to Shakespeare in the
\n Park, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Comnaly’s effort to increase the community’s
\n culture level. Every year I arrive ready for the bard, with bread
\n and fruit, blanket and pillow, water and wine. However, I have yet to
\n make it to the fifth act, due to chronic, progressive back pain which
\n makes it excruciating to sit cross-legged on the ground for three hours.\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
So last night I was supremely proud of my perspicacity
\n (actually, my wife’s) in finally purchasing those light-weight low-rider
\n folding beach
\n chairs. What comfort! What style! However, sitting so close to the
\n ground I could’t find my students in the record-setting crowd of thousands. Accordingly,
\n at the end of every scene I would stand and quickly scan the audience looking
\n for foreign lawyers, and then plop back down in my chair.<\/p>\n
"Don’t plop down in your chair" my wife whispered savagely
\n as I did so. At the end of the third scene, just after
\n the Weird Sisters predicted greatness for Macbeth, I plopped my last
\n plop, and the new seat collasped irredeemably flat, spilling the guacamole
\n of the purple-hairded patrons of the arts seated behind us. It was
\n hard to enjoy the play after that. I have still never seen the last
\n act of a Shakespeare play….<\/p>\n
excellent review from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every summer I take my foreign law students to Shakespeare in the Park, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Comnaly’s effort to increase the community’s culture level. Every year I arrive ready for the bard, with bread and fruit, blanket and pillow, water and … Continue reading