Tempest At Oregon Shakespeare Festival
20Jul2007 04:22 PM Art
Last night, my sister, her family (sans niece
finishing up a summer physics internship in Australia
researching gravity waves), and I attended a stellar
performance of The Tempest at the
Oregon Shakespeare
Festival...
(thanks, Gayle!) I was not only inspired by the
excellent performances, great costumes and
staging, I particularly appreciated the deeper
meaning of the play, which revolved around
forgiveness... so synchronistic, as I'm completing
the first reading of
Gary Renard's
book,
Your Immortal
Reality,
which is completely about the same crucial element
in our awakening – realizing there is ultimately
nothing in our eternal nature to forgive.
Here's a quote from the Tempest from Renard's book (page 140)I had just read a few days (synchronistically):
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
Kinda puts our fleeting and ephemeral issues into perspective
My sister has a lovely collection of antique and reproduction prints of Shakespeare, such as this one:
Here's how to contact her if you want prints or cards for your store or home:
Here's a quote from the Tempest from Renard's book (page 140)I had just read a few days (synchronistically):
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
Kinda puts our fleeting and ephemeral issues into perspective
My sister has a lovely collection of antique and reproduction prints of Shakespeare, such as this one:
Here's how to contact her if you want prints or cards for your store or home:
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