Boldly Go Solo

Get thee to … no, no, no, not a nunnery.

Get thee to the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival 2010 in Amherst, Virginia, for a staging of Hamlet. Well, less a staging, than a "fielding." The show will be performed in front of an old dairy barn and you, the audience, will sit on a grassy hill. In the field, as it were.

If you have to travel from, say, Europe, you don't have much time. The performances begin July 14 and end on the 25th. But all you folks in the Mid-Atlantic states have a chance. Think you've already seen Hamlet? But have you seen it set in Civil War Virginia?

I didn't THINK so! And being solo would not be a problem in the least. I could practically guarantee a friendly crowd, relaxed and happy on a summer evening. If you find yourself with no one to talk to, try catching fireflies as the sun goes down! There are tons of them out there.

For a taste of what to expect out of the performance read this story I wrote about the Endstation Theatre Company that appeared in today's Washington Post.

Photo: Ellen Perlman. Actors Catherine Took as Guildenstern and Walter Kmiec as Hamlet, at rehearsals.