Time Out of Joint

I'll be heading over to Stratford fairly soon.  This time around, I am going with my wife and we are staying over one night.  (I just dug up the B&B confirmation.)  We'll see Macbeth.  I'm trying to ignore the fairly negative reviews that LePage's directorial choices have gotten and will try to enjoy it more as a spectacle, maybe more along the lines of Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, which departed from the core text completely in places.  Still, I hope one of these days to see a straight production in Toronto.  I think I saw a stripped-down version at Alumnae (up in the tower) with a fair bit of doubling, and then before that it was Bard on the Beach in 2012!  So it's been a while.  (I'm not counting the puppet version that was done at Red Sandcastle or the Goblins* doing Macbeth at Tarragon, even though both were interesting in their own way.)

Then I am seeing The Winter Tale by myself in the evening.  I've heard very good things about this performance, though I don't care for the play at all.  Still, I guess it is something to check off my list.**

Then on Sunday we are seeing Ransacking Troy which is a complete overhaul of The Iliad where the wives of the Greek warriors intervene and apparently haul them away from Troy, so some sort of a happy ending?  It should be interesting at any rate, and then we will take the bus home.  I'm hoping we will get back home around 8 pm.  I may have enough energy to get to the gym, or that may be pushed off until Monday.

It turns out that tonight, it is possible to do lane swimming at Jimmie Simpson tonight after work at 8 pm, so I will plan on doing that.  I also am able to catch a live stream of Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring at Smoke, which starts at 7.  So my plan is to watch the very first part of the stream and go off and get my laps in, as I obviously can't swim over the weekend, and then I should be able to rewatch on Sunday evening.  (Typically, the streams are watchable for 48+ hours.  Here's hoping.)

My wife is going to do a grocery run today, as again the bulk of the grocery shopping happens on Sunday.  I believe I should be able to cook a dish for later in the week Sunday evening, maybe with the Smoke stream playing in the background.

Plenty of other things I could discuss, but I really need to run.

 

* Speaking of the Goblins, I had asked if they were bringing their version of Oedipus Rex to Tarragon, and, while they were hopeful, apparently they couldn't make it work, so I am running back to Stratford for a matinee performance in Oct.  I'm sure it will be great, but it still would have been preferable to see this over at Tarragon.

** Curiously, Shakespeare in the Ruff did a version of Winter's Tale where they made some key inversions of the text but then didn't say they were remixing Shakespeare.  I just couldn't support that and didn't go.  It's much better when they do something like Portia's Julius Caesar or this season's Tiff'ny of Athen where it is much more obvious they are doing something odd with the text.  I do plan on see Tiff'ny of Athen.  Still a little disappointed that I couldn't get over to Theatre Centre to see a proper Timon of Athens, but I just ran out of time before my New York-DC trip (which is more or less the last time I will set foot in the States until Cheetolini is out of office or dies of natural or unnatural causes).