If you’ve been wondering (and I know you have) about this play that Stuart and I keep randomly referring to in blog posts about how we’re far too busy to post, is this the post for YOU. But only if you’re a New Yorker or you will be in New York sometime in the next month. For the rest of you, sadly, I have nothing to tell. Go buy a tee shirt to ease your sorrow.
So! New Yorkers! I’d like to take this opportunity now that I have your rapt attention (and I do) to give you four hilarious opportunities to see me make an ass of myself. Well, not an ass, since that part is reserved for the brilliantly hilarious Dave, as our Bottom, in a Midsummer Night’s Dream. So, not an ass. A fairy then, as well as a girl-ified and bitchified version of Egeus. That’s Lady Egeus to you, buster.
Communicable Arts, an organization of intrepid souls that bring summer Shakespeare to the parks of Brooklyn, has been hard at work this summer and there are four awesome locations for us to enchant your imagination and make you laugh until you totally fall over. At any of these four, you’ll see me wearing such bright colors as to attract bumblebees, you’ll see me singing (o unholy nightmare), and you’ll see Stuart playing a Wall. You can’t miss that, right? No, you can’t. Here, without further much ado, are the four locations and some info about all of them and how to get there. Blog readers, start your calendars.
Saturday, July 23, 12 PM
Von King Cultural Center Amphitheatre
670 Lafayette Avenue, between Marcy and Tompkins Avenue.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
G train to the Bedford/Nostrand stop. Walk east on Lafayette Avenue to
Marcy.
Sunday, July 24, 2 PM
Maria Hernandez Park
Knickerbocker to Irving Aves, Starr to Suydam streets
Bushwick, Brooklyn
L train to Jefferson Street stop. Walk two blocks on Wyckoff Avenue to
Starr Street and two blocks South to Irving Avenue.
Saturday, July 30, 12:30 PM
New Lots Library
665 New Lots Avenue at Barbey St.
Brownsville, Brooklyn
3 train to New Lots/Livonia Avenue stop. Walk along New Lots Avenue 4
blocks to Barbey Street.
Sunday, July 31, 4 PM
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
499 Van Brunt Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn
F train to Jay St / Boro Hall, then B61 to Van Brunt or
G train to Smith/9th Street, then B77 bus to Van Dyke and Van Brunt.
Let me know in the comments or by email (especially if I don’t already know your pretty face) if you’re going to be there so that when you come up after the play to say hello (and I hope you do), I don’t spray you with mace or kick you in the shins. (Not that I ever do that. Ever.) But really, introduce yourself, I’ll probably hug you.