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The Shakespeare season is upon us and I'm participating via Marin Shakespeare's wacky comedy Knight of the Burning Pestle. I mentioned the all-star cast in an earlier post and tons of silly stuff are in store for audiences. I think there will be many comparisons to the Tony Award winning musical Spamalot by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame, but this play was written a few hundred years earlier and is presumed to be the very first parody.

Last week, Natalia & I went to see Kate Mulgrew as Katherine Hepburn in "Tea at Five" downtown. I wanted to see this show a few years back when it was on Broadway so I'm glad she revived it here in SF. It's extremely difficult to do a solo show and there have been very few successes (Hal Holbrook's "Mark Twain Tonight!" and Spalding Grey's "Swimming to Cambodia" are the definitive examples of what a one-man show could/should be). The first half she played a younger Hepburn and the second half an old Hepburn. It's especially hard to play someone that the whole world has known for more than half a century, but Mulgrew (the former Star Trek Voyager captain) pulled it off nicely.

Last weekend, I took Natalia to see Les Miserables, which I'd already seen years ago in SF. I wasn't sure if she was going to like it, but at least she'd like it a little because it was a classic French story. She loved it (and Randal Keith), which was not as surprising as when she loved "Caroline or Change" a few months back.