For those of you not versed in children's theatre Robin Goodfellow is a children's adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. I had been looking forward to this play all season long because a) I have actually never seen the play before (my bumble Kansas public school education left a little something to be desired in the literature section) and b) I wanted to see the kid's reaction to what would be our first somewhat older children's play. My assumption, of course, when I heard that this was adapted for children, would be that they would convert the old English into a more modern understandable English and keep the storyline. And so I was quite shocked when the play opened and Robin Goodfellow (who was Puck from the original play) began spouting off Elizabethan English. My heart sank into my shoes. I thought the kids wouldn't understand what was going on, they would get bored and wouldn't enjoy themselves. As usual, I shouldn't underestimate my children. They both sat in their chairs intently watching the whole play. There were times when Greyson looked a little confused (Quinn was with Raif and so I don't know how he handled these parts) and so I quickly whispered into his ear what was going on and he smiled and continued watching. They laughed at the appropriate times and at the end of play declared it a winner and promptly wanted to see it again.
One small step for man, one giant leap for culturing of the Erim children.
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