Leave it to Shakespeare to let us live again.
“Shakespeare’s Fool” is playing Jan. 29 at the Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center with the rumpled yet lovable singer and artist of the year, Jason Feddy, and his wife Ava Burton, along with other surprise guests. For more info and tickets, visit the center’s website.
Put on by Bare Bones Theatre (aka the quietly brilliant Lojo Simon), the event is called “a rambunctious and unpretentious romp through lines and lyrics from Shakespeare.”
Doubtless Feddy will make the songs his own, and the acting will be refreshingly good, if history is any indication.
Way back before COVID, we enjoyed these activities almost at will. Now, not so much. Even if there is an event, we fumble and curse our masks, hoping that somehow we could avoid them for the night.
The mask has become our veil. On one side is reality, the virus reality, and on the other is our imagination, hoping to break free.
Which is why we embrace Shakespeare, where things are not what they seem and where we can escape for at least a night – our minds awakened, and souls allowed to breathe.
