{"id":1384,"date":"2019-02-19T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2019-03-14T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:04:57","slug":"king-lear-spring-2019-tour-entry-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/king-lear-spring-2019-tour-entry-5\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKing Lear\u201d Spring 2019 Tour \u2013 Entry #5"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Jonathan Dryden Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, we can add \u2018pulled over by the police on the interstate\u2019 to our list of life experiences. On the journey from South Bend to Cleveland, we found ourselves stationary by the side of the road as a very diligent Ohio State Trooper quizzed our driver on who we were and what we were doing there. Come to think of it, I\u2019ve never seen a stretch limo on a motorway either, so I guess I\u2019d have been a little curious\u2026<\/p>\n

That moment aside, it made a nice change to move venues on a road rather than in the sky, not least because all our suitcases are hovering round the dangerous 50lbs mark and a certain amount of hurried repacking tends to happen at airports. The journey was only around four hours or so and once we\u2019d picked up our rental cars for the week we were able to check into our hotel.<\/p>\n

I became aware of some of my priorities in life when I first saw my hotel room. We\u2019ve been in some truly luxurious digs on this tour but this was the first time the rooms had had a bath rather than just a shower, and, better still, they had a fully fitted kitchenette! Apparently it doesn\u2019t take the lap of luxury to make me happy: a hob, a measuring jug and a few pans will do it.<\/p>\n

Cooking is the way I de-stress and calm down, so not having picked up a wooden spoon for three weeks had probably left me quite tightly wound. As soon as was humanly possible I was happily browsing the aisles at Trader Joe\u2019s, and not long after that I was blissfully stirring a beef stew that became the basis of most of the week\u2019s meals.<\/p>\n

So determined was I to get it right that I popped down to the minimart at the hotel reception to get some beer for a good ale gravy, not stopping to think that buying strong IPA in a hotel at 10am might not be the best piece of reputation management I\u2019ve ever achieved.<\/p>\n

The welcome at John Carroll University was as warm as we\u2019ve come to expect, and the classes were particularly diverse this week. As well as the O\u2019Malley building which houses the arts and humanities, we also worked with the scientists in the Dolan building, and in the Boler Business School. It was a busy week with a number of classes each, but we all had our highlights.<\/p>\n

Taking her lead from Lear\u2019s \u2018Poor naked wretches\u2019 speech, Tricia delivered classes on poverty, social inequality and \u2018cli-fi\u2019 (a genre new to most of us!). Ffion tackled the relationship between Shakespeare and popular culture- a relationship she embodies in the show with her performance-poet take on the Fool. Richard examined the Psychology of Autism, and Fred and I literally taught the same class to a different set of students back to back (although our versions of the class were apparently pretty divergent!)<\/p>\n

The giant Kulas Auditorium was our home for the week and it was great to bring the show to a space which matches the dimensions of the play itself. Jean Feerick and her colleagues in the English faculty couldn\u2019t have been more welcoming and after our Friday night show we were taken for a very generous meal, in a restaurant whose d\u00e9cor some of us couldn\u2019t resist paying tribute to\u2026<\/p>\n

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