{"id":1794,"date":"2022-10-24T10:10:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:10:33","slug":"macbeth-fall-2022-tour-entry-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/macbeth-fall-2022-tour-entry-6\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMacbeth\u201d Fall 2022 Tour: Entry #6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Michael Wagg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sitting beside Ka’eo, staring westwards into the Pacific, I’m sure I haven\u2019t the words to describe the week. Here on Hawai\u2019i\u2019s big island it\u2019s felt like quite the trip of a lifetime, and I know we all feel very fortunate to have been given the experience. It\u2019ll take time to reflect and, frankly, I\u2019ll soon be ready for another splash in the ocean, so for this week\u2019s blog I\u2019ll take a leaf out of Ka’eo\u2019s book, sit still and listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To try to give you a sense of the week just gone (we have done some work, honest!) this week\u2019s dispatch is a five-person Hawai\u2019i highlights show: our own Hawaii Five-Oh<\/em>! Here we go \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annabelle: Swimming with a turtle! I\u2019d never seen a sea turtle before and I got to feed it, too. A local person told me it was a blessing that it was there \u2013 a blessing on our tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger: Swimming with a puffer fish! It took me completely by surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne: Pineapple cocktails! They didn\u2019t disappoint. We went to a restaurant called Pineapples and drank pineapple flavoured cocktails served in pineapples! It was \u2018Hawai\u2019i in a drink.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire: At the workshop at Waiakea High School in Hilo, a boy who at the start was really struggling with the exercise suddenly started to flourish, and found his voice. He turned out to be one of the best \u2018weird sisters\u2019 I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waggy: It was a pleasure meeting English professor Mark Panek and working with his class on a difficult scene. Afterwards Mark gave me a copy of his book about a Hawai’ian sumo wrestler. (I was glad to return the favour by giving him a book about East German Football!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne: At the end of the first performance this week, at the university in Hilo, we were each given a lei (a flower garland traditional in Hawai\u2019i). I wasn\u2019t expecting it; such a kind gesture. We wore our leis with pride and thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger: The first, sunset swim in the velvety ocean, here in the shadow of Mauna Kea [the tallest mountain in the world from its underwater base, we’re told]. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire: Snorkelling! Here at Kauna\u2019oa Bay. I\u2019ve never done it before and rarely put my head under water, but I had a go and it was brilliant. I was alone with the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annabelle: Meeting Sam and Kristin at the Kahilu Theatre – a really lovely theatre – and doing the world\u2019s smoothest tech rehearsal! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne: And they gave us Twinings tea and cheese & biscuits, to make us feel at home!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waggy: The grey cat we met on our first night on the island. I couldn’t get over the fact that you could live a cat’s life and<\/em> live on Hawai’i!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne: I loved the Tropical Botanical Gardens in Hilo. The colours, the smells, the shapes \u2013 it was like being in Jurassic Park! Very humid too: the island has lots of different climates and we\u2019ve been lucky enough to experience them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annabelle: The shaved ice was delicious. It came with flavoured syrups and coconut condensed milk. We’d just finished quite an intense workshop, with just four students who became our four weird sisters, so it was the perfect refreshing treat after work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger: The precious opportunity to watch, up close, the balletic feeding of the manta rays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire: The performance for the whole school in the gymnasium at Kohala High School was a really special one. I noticed a girl in the front row, with a flower in her hair, who was transfixed for the whole show. We\u2019ve been told that for many of the students that will have been their first experience of live theatre. Hopefully she\u2019s hooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waggy: Morning coffee with Ka’eo.* Watching hula dance, then diving into the ocean as the sun goes down \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

talking of which \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Aloha, and Mahalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Ka’eo is a 47-year-old red, yellow and blue macaw, soon to retire, and I\u2019m sure the wisest voice around.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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