A Shakespeare play and Roman dinner

Salvete!
Sorry for the absence of a blog post yesterday, we got back to Randolph-Macon quite late after from the play. But what a play it was! We enjoyed A Merchant of Venice by Quill Theater at Agecroft Hall. Prior to the performance, Dr. Fred Franko, an academy teacher for several years, and Dr. Matthew Radford Davies, playing Shylock in the play, visited us to discuss the evolution of Plautus's material in Shakespeare's plays and to discuss the sensitive material and controversy in Merchant and other plays.

Today we enjoyed a Roman dinner featuring entertainment from all our provinces. The acts were wonderful and featured several surprises. For instance, in the part Johnnie played for Carthage's skit, he had to dress as a Roman woman, and he performed his role extraordinarily well. Alexandria also had an amazing Province Roast, which had all of us in tears of laughter. All the acts were great and you'll get to hear more about the dinner from your student and maybe even see bits of it on the Memoranda DVD.  Then we enjoyed more of Mr. Cavedo's stories and a talent show, featuring our Tribunes Kirby Ann and Will as MCs.

We think that two of the lines from a section in Menaechmi on the handout given to us by Dr. Franko is especially punny. and here it is:
"Because of this, they call the city Epidamnus,
For no one leave unscathed, 'un-epidamaged.'"

Here's a photo from Thursday's Bellum Mercium, or Commodity Wars: 

Valete!