Outdoor Theater Fest diary: Lear, Pinocchio and The Three Musketeers
Outdoor Theater Fest diary, Saturday, July 14, 2018 Lear, Pinocchio, and The Three Musketeers Usually, you go into the dark to see a play. My favorite place to see a show is the Ballard Underground. Even at midday on the brightest day of the year, it’s as dark as midnight in the basement of the Kress Building. Volunteer Park amphitheater today was a different matter. No clouds. All sun. That might seem like an odd venue to do King Lear , but nevertheless, Wooden O persisted. I was there today to see the show after Lear. I arrived near the end, about the time Gloucester jumps off the “cliff.” So it would not be fair to say much about the show but some of the lines (like the Earl) landed well. When Lear said, while holding dead Cordelia, "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, / And thou no breath at all?" that line hit hard. The grief was there. Even though I did not have the context of the first 90 minutes of the play, and I was mostly a spectator (not audi