{"id":49150,"date":"2020-05-01T14:41:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?p=49150"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:41:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:41:44","slug":"what-are-people-doing-seattle-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/what-are-people-doing-seattle-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are People Doing? Seattle Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week the Town Crier blog looks back at Seattle\u2019s near-forgotten <\/span><\/i>Town Crier <\/span>magazine to see what was happening, and talk about what\u2019s happening now. One of the largest sections of the original <\/span><\/i>Town Crier<\/span> was \u201cWhat People Are Doing,\u201d highlighting things like, \u201cMiss Pollock <\/span><\/i>spoke of \u2018Experiences and Opportunities in France\u2019\u201d and, \u201cMrs. Castlen, one of the active promoters of horseback riding in the city, carried off the blue in the polo class and was the only woman competing against the army officers.\u201d In this series we\u2019re revisiting the old column and tying it to our community\u2019s current happenings, asking: \u201cwhat <\/span><\/i>are<\/span> people doing?\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cNext week the Shakespeare fans are going to have their innings and there will be a whole week given over to the plays of the immortal Bard of Avon at the Metropolitan,\u201d wrote the <\/span>Town Crier <\/span><\/i>on May 7, 1921. Seattle\u2019s love of Shakespeare, then and now, certainly can\u2019t be denied.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been documented<\/span><\/a> that Shakespeare wrote some of his plays from home during the 1603 outbreak of bubonic plague. Would that we all had the resolve to write a masterpiece right now\u2014but second best to that is watching some of the Bard\u2019s plays in action. Luckily, Seattle Shakespeare Company has us covered. They\u2019ve put together a collection of streaming options for viewing Shakespeare performances at home<\/a>, and have partnered with local artists to present \u201cRuff Reads\u201d<\/a> of classic plays. And for those who want to put on their own productions, they\u2019re even offering resources for teaching Shakespeare\u2019s work<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, the \u2018<\/span>Crier <\/span><\/i>had its own idea of what a good performance looked like. \u201cJohn E. Kellerd comes again with his company and those who have heard him will remember the delightful simplicity with which he reads his lines. In his creed, \u2018The Play’s the Thing,\u2019 and he never smothers it with upholstery and mouthings.\u201d A high bar to beat, indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIncidentally, you’ll be surprised to see the number of Shakespeare devotees in this town. \u2018Best people,\u2019 you know, and all that sort of thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stay healthy, all you best people out there.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIncidentally, you’ll be surprised to see the number of Shakespeare devotees in this town. \u2018Best people,\u2019 you know, and all that sort of thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-town-crier","category-what-are-people-doing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}