We attended another Shakespeare in the park event!
This year Indianapolis Shakespeare Company selected Hamlet as their presentation piece.
The event was moved to Riverside Park this year and will remain there.
After receiving a grant, they will now be able to create a permanent amphitheater with the Mayor Thomas Taggart Memorial.
It will be a perfect pairing as they are revitalizing this park with new life!
Our first stop was to one of the food trucks brought in for the event - J's Lobster truck!
Ashley had been wanting to try something off this truck for quite some time!
We each had a lobster roll and they were AMAZING!
Fresh lobster coated in butter on a toasted roll with crispy lettuce! Perfection!
We rounded it out with some sauvignon blanc!
The show began when it was still light out - 8 PM and had been condensed to a 2 hr run by our favorite - Ryan Artzberger!
As the sun set, we were impressed with some of the incredible performances! (we loved Hamlet and Horatio!)
Of course knowing pretty much everyone dies at the end helps you not get attached!
We had blackberry jam rolls for intermission in honor of Lammas.
Emily prepared them the morning of the event.
While this vantage point did not allow you to see the sun setting over White River, the river does snake through this park.
By the end of the play it was dark - and the mystery of the theatre had enshrouded us all.
We were transfixed by the illusions created on stage.
We especially liked the way they represented the suicide of Ophelia and how Horatio and the rest of the guard were women!
The evening was warm but the darkness brought a chill.
You could feel the magic of summer slipping into its final month.
We chanted with grain and a witches brew candle under a weeping tree that the seeds of change be planted.
And remembered - as Shakespeare wrote in tonight's play - "there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
Great twin night!
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