Building on the success of last year's production of the 'The Tempest' which was selected to represent Mexico for Shakespeare 24, this year we took things up a notch with 'Richard III'. The idea was to have higher production values- to inject some glamour into the Shakespeare Schools Festival.
I hope we did. We were helped by the Bellas Artes Vestuario who provided some excellent costumes for free and also a rather loud starter pistol which put a jump or two into the death scenes.
More importantly, it was the actors who really pulled it off. 'Richard III' has many characters and is based on a number of historical events. I thought it was a tribute to the cast- including many boys who wouldn't usually act- that they were able to bring off our interpretation of a Latin American military coup which such convincing gravity on the night.
As the cast shouted at the curtain call: "Long live Shakespeare!"
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