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Kids like Shakespeare, too

The Bluffview Montessori student has got oodles of energy, but when it comes time to take in a GRSF performance, he’s all eyes and ears. Last week, he went to his eighth performance (he saw “A Comedy of Errors” twice); since he saw his first, “The Taming of the Shrew,” he’s been hooked.

“’The Tempest’ was my favorite,” said Carter. “I thought it was a really cool one and I like the story. And I liked the scenes and stuff.”

Over the years, Carter’s memory stretches to the things he enjoyed the most, from the hilarity of “A Comedy of Errors” to the performances that had the neatest sets and costumes. But its not just the festival that Carter has come to love, but also the works of Shakespeare himself, and he’s got a wish list of plays he hopes that GRSF will perform in the coming years.

“I haven’t seen ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’” said Carter. “But I know the story.” His teacher read part of it aloud in class, along with part of “Macbeth,” which he thought might be a little too scary for the younger kids. He’s got a hankering to see both, along with “Othello,” one day. “I like the tragedies,” he said.

Carter and mom Jenel saw the Apprentice performance of “Hamlet,” and landed front row seats. After the performance, Jenel spoke with one of the actors who played the ghost of Hamlet’s father, who noticed the youngster sitting in the front row, enthralled. “The Hamlet actor ghost said ‘I was doing the performance for you,’” he recalled.

Last Thursday, Carter got the chance to go behind the curtain, and watched some “Henry IV” actors practice a sword fighting scene. He said his own karate sword fighting classes probably won’t include the same intense, dramatic fights, at least not for a long time, but it was neat to watch.

When Carter grows up, he’d like to be a famous chef, a baseball player, a weapon designer. Or, he said, maybe the kind of person who dreams up the ideas for really great movies, kind of like a modern-day Shakespeare for the big screen.

For Carter, the world of Shakespeare has come to life through the GRSF performances.

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