it felt like we were doing something real, and not justcommenting on everyone else's work. The air was great, the change wasgreat, and bringing a play from text to performance gave me a whole newattitude towards theatrics in general. I learned how much work goesinto doing even just a scene, how many elements there are to look after,and how much effort it takes to make everything look somewhat believableand real. Being at the end of the process now, being able to see wherewe started from clear through to the finish, I feel like myunderstanding of Shakespeare has really broadened. Not so muchShakespeare himself, of course, but rather what he did, what he tried toaccomplish; I have a much greater sense of what all actors and crew gothrough to put a play together, text to performance, start to !finish.There is a small part of me that wants to keep doing Shakespeare, to doall of the play, or at least do it again. Another part of me, the morepersuasive and logical part, wants to just keep it all right where it isin my mind, remembering it fondly, as A Dream....
