Measure for Measure played through August 12, 2023 at the American Shakespeare Center. Here’s a Here’s a lovely, thoughtful review from scholar Dr. Peter Kirwan #ASCMeasure #ASC35 #Folio400

_{Costumes: Krissy Sneshkoff, Scenic Properties: Duck Bracey (fun fact: over 5,000 plastic bags were re-purposed into those beautiful curtains), Cast: Aidan O’Reilly, Alexis Baigue, Angela Iannone, Brandon Carter, Corrie Green, Erica Cruz Hernández, Gabriella Castillo-Miranda, Jack Young, Jess Kadish, Joe Mucciolo, Meg Rodgers, Nic Sanchez, Philip Orazio}
Photos by: October Grace Medi

… I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

With your one wild and precious life?    

— The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

Think when we talk of horses, that you see them        
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;         
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, 
Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,         
Turning the accomplishment of many years               
Into an hour-glass...                                                       

– Henry V by Will Shakespeare