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Page 18 The OSCAR November 2016 ARTS AND CULTURE Te Company of Adventurers’ Fundraiser a Huge Success! PHOTO BY BRUCE DEACHMAN By Cynthia Sugars raised since we founded the Com- alike had a wonderful time bringing uottawa.ca. And we are sorely in pany of Adventurers six years ago. this fabulous play to you. It is always need of storage space (our poor house We are thrilled to announce that The We’d like to extend an enormous a challenge to get the word out, so is bursting at the seams!). If anyone Company of Adventurers’ produc- please tell your friends (we may add has a business with storage space that tion of this past the Old Ottawa South and Glebe an extra show or two next year!). If we might be able to use gratis or at a September raised just over $3100 for communities for supporting us. This you would like to be placed on our Harmony House (an Ottawa Wom- year, we had a full house for almost mailing list for future shows, please operation), please let us know! en’s Shelter). This is the most we’ve every show! Directors and actors send an email to Cynthia at csugars@ lines with an understanding of the play’s nuances that belied their age, Local Production of Romeo and Juliet Charms Audience, and my old ears heard the play anew. Young and Old Alike Romeo was played with such a youthful innocence as could easily By Nadine Dawson email, advertising a late-September through an enchanting silk-lined crack open adult cynicism, and rain-date performance of Romeo and corridor. I had entered Renaissance Juliet’s portrayal of the hesitant For many years - six, as it turns out - with a time AND a location. Verona at last! I had heard rumours of local children And so, I bundled myself up for the A wooden deck alongside the back alike both dreams and memories performing Shakespeare. Some of chill autumn air, having gobbled of the house provided the stage; to the children’s whispered names were down an early repast, and headed one side, an arbour that doubled as proud Tybalt, loyal companion even familiar to me, but in a distant down the road, tired from the week’s the apothecary’s shop, to the other, Benvolio, darkly playful Mercutio, sort of way that precluded further work, but determined to get to the a bench seat that became Juliet’s well-meaning Friar, and Paris, the investigation. Once, I even happened bottom of the mystery once and for bedchamber. To the rear was an awkwardly positioned “man of wax”: upon a play in progress, not three all. arched seat and curtained entrance, all were played with enthusiasm blocks from my very home - taking The streets were lined with parked and above, lo and behold! a balcony, and conviction. The Nurse lent a place behind a curtained pathway cars and I despaired that I would custom constructed alongside one welcome comedic relief, and the that led behind an Old Ottawa South miss even this opportunity to witness of the upstairs windows, complete apothecary mirrored the tone of the house. I ventured near, but alas! was Shakespeare’s most famous play, with sturdy wooden ladder to carry tragedy with a frenzied portrayal of turned away, the show was “sold out.’ continually in production since its the besotted Romeo to his love! the kind of action born of poverty The mystery of this local debut. As chance would have it, Vines and potted plants suggested a and desperation. From the ineffective a taping of at beautiful Italian garden, and the spell parents of the young lovers, to the a Shakespearean play be staged in Lansdowne had drawn the cars to the of another time and place was cast. commanding Prince, the citizen one of the neighbourhood’s postage- area, so there was no real threat to spectators, and the obedient yet my coveted seat. on the violin from above and behind just who were these children who I arrived at the place, and was the gathered audience, cozily seated cast of characters rounded out the devoted their summer of leisure to greeted by costumed actors who on an odd assortment of chairs in tale with their competence and learning lines penned four hundred the walled and tiered yard, wrapped years ago, in a tripping tongue Since I myself was caped in a rich in blankets against the cold, and the red, woolen shawl, I entered by the play began. 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