I am currently taking a Shakespeare class at Macalester. Shakespeare has always been very challenging for me. I really enjoy seeing his plays performed, but reading them can be quite a chore. Yesterday my class went to see The Jungle Theater's production of "Hamlet" in the trendy UptowN neighborhood of Minneapolis. The performance was set in modern times, it featured photo slideshows, iphones and ipads. I personally enjoy when Shakespearean actors dress in Elizabethan garb, I find it more transporting. Overall it was a successful production. All my classmates thought that the man who played Hamlet was an excellent actor, but I couldn't really see it.
The play was three and a half hours long. Both I and the young man that I was sitting next to dozed off involuntarily multiple times. Unfortunately he banged his head against the wall when he was startled awake. Thankfully there were two intermissions.
There is nothing new at Milkweed. I unknowingly spoiled my supervisor's birthday surprise on Friday, which I still feel very guilty about. Our poetry reader came in with a cake and pressed her index finger to lips. Then later I asked my supervisor who the cake was for.
"Probably me cause today is my birthday,"she replied.
This type of thing always happens to me. It was a delicious carrot cake. My mom had one for her wedding (she was a hippie).
I and all of the interns have been doing more grunt work lately to prepare for various Milkweed events. I've been mailing packages, folding pamphlets and answering phones. I'm still reading manuscripts but haven't come across anything lately that has really struck me. I'm still waiting on any editing jobs.
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