I have never looked inside a Shakespeare book, let alone attempted to dissect the words and order them in my mind so as to understand his story. I have enough trouble stringing sentences together in my head so I can then deliver them slowly and in a way that others understand, so Shakespeare and Tania Marie a disaster I think.
Or maybe not: if I had been fortunate enough to have met Shakespeare we may have talk for hours, having conversations with real words, but words put together in some cases that take a little time working out what they all mean strung together.
So thank goodness I was fortunate enough to stop for long enough prior to the play to listen to Tristan McKinnon and his outline of the story about to be performed for us.
Some times it is good to just stop and listen: now I thought this is a wonderful story, and started to look forward to what I was about to be part of.
Performed in a Gallery on the edge of Primrose Park in Cremorne. The Winter's Tale is performed right in front of your eyes, a very intimate arrangement, with just one row of seats down each side of the gallery, the space in between the stage where the story unfolds.
http://www.shakespeareonthegreen.com.au
Primrose Park Gallery
The Gallery is located in Matora Lane, Primrose Park (Off Young St) Cremorne. It is located in one of the largest open spaces in the North Sydney area with harbourside picnic spots, sports fields, bushland areas and an Arts and Crafts Centre.
All I can say is, I thoroughly enjoyed it and as always loved watching Emma. If you want to see Shakespeare and never have, this for me was a fantastic introduction!!
I also discovered, as we had arrived with a little time to spare before the play started, some wonderful concrete structures out the back of the Gallery. I was also told that the Gallery had been originally built and utilised as a sewage plant so these concrete structures must have been part of the process.
In the dark and in my high heels I must have look a little weird taking this photos. I would have like to take more but I did have a date with Shakespeare.