The Prologue To Our Quest

For years we have been going to Shakespeare; in the park, in the theater, at the movies. Amanda started bringing Wendy to Shakespeare In The Park before she could read. We always had an agreement that if the show was too boring (or too hard to follow) we would leave at intermission. Only once did we leave a show, but that was because it was over 95 degrees outside. Sorry Taming Of The Shrew.

In 2009, we went to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the first time together. We saw four plays in two days. And had a blast. We have been back every summer since. The first year we went with two of Amanda's friends; the second year we went with one of Wendy's friends; and this year we are going again, but just the two of us, thanks to a generous sponsor (Hi Rachel!).

We decided to attempt Shakespeare's Canon; seeing all 36 plays attributed to Shakespeare, together the first year that we went to Ashland, and have been working on it ever since. To date, Amanda has seen 29 of the plays and Wendy has seen 14. We've decided that seeing the movie of the play doesn't count toward the Canon list, it needs to be a professional theater company, no matter how small.

This is the blog of our efforts.