Bard of the `burbs
Shakespeare`s spirit is alive in the suburbs these midsummer days, due to the efforts of Actors Center of Du Page.
Shakespearean actors, including strolling minstrels and a fool, will entertain Glen Ellyn`s 4th of July paradegoers. The troupe will then go forth on the 5th with its preview of ”Twelfth Night,” which continues every Thursday through Sunday until July 22 (phone 530-4803 for ticket information).
Patrons will probably be impressed by suburbia`s version of Stratford-on- Avon, Glen Ellyn`s Maryknoll-on-Brandon.
”We`ve converted the landmark Maryknoll chapel into a fan-shaped theater,” explained Jeffrey Baumgartner, the group`s artistic director.
”The lobby is stunning, and a long Spielbergian corridor leads into an amazing arena-style chapel; it just takes your breath away.”
The stage is an octagonal marble slab about 40 feet across, with another marble block up a level in the middle, all part of the original chapel. Stained glass windows surround the 150-seat theater.
”We`re encouraging families and friends to have a picnic supper on the grounds before the play,” Baumgartner said. ”There`s a gazebo outside-it`s a very picturesque setting.
”The play itself is like an Italian soap opera. It`s a romantic comedy that`s an excellent introduction to the wit, the language and the genius of William Shakespeare,” he said.
You may already be familiar with some lines from the play, including,
”Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
The comedy even provides an apt ending to this item: ”Out, hyperbolic fiend! . . . Leave thy vain bibble-babble.”
SOURCE: Vicky Edwards Gehrt. And village board meetings
A typing error in ”The News,” published weekly by the Union Church of Hinsdale, inadvertently coined a wonderful new word.
The word doesn`t really apply to the forthcoming photo directory featuring ”memborable moments” in the church`s 125-year-old history, but think how handy it will come in when describing your high school class reunion where you didn`t know a soul, your former company`s retirees picnic where everyone else looked older than Methuselah or the long weekend you spent in Peoria with three couples you hadn`t seen in 20 years.
Memborable, memborable, memborable. SOURCE: Helen Anderson.
