A Mirror Up To Nature

Rodger Barton loves William Shakespeare. I think we can just go ahead and carve that into a heart on a tree. He wants us all to to feast on the passionate writings of this genius madman. He explains in a very professorial tone that we have already taken many of these writings and slept with them under our own pillows. He rattles off a long list of everyday sayings that we've all used without realizing their origin.

He performs vignettes of various monologues from some of the many roles he's played over his long acting career, offering us a buffet of Shakespeare to nibble and sample and he does this with apparent ease. His tongue twists and turns so quickly along this trail of tales that we trip and have to catch up.

We can't be anything but amazed watching this master of character transition in and out of his many roles and in such rapid sequence but yet as smoothly and with such precision that we hardly realize what has happened until we are onto the next act.

This performance is a lesson and one we can all use.

Written and performed by Rodger Barton
Running time approximately 55 minutes.