Salty Shakespeare

07/28/2020

MAN, these guys are good!!!

07/27/2020

07/27/2020

06/22/2019

Am working now to make Salty Shakespeare a real business. Having a meeting soon with the head of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce to discuss it. Working with my actors to prepare scenes for ANY occasion: dinner parties, corporate workshops, political meetings. We can disrupt ANYTHING!! Try us!! We promise not to get arrested in the middle of your event!!

06/06/2019

So several of us in the Salty Shakespeare troupe went to the Renaissance Faire. But they were turning musicians away at the gate, saying they didn't so much want random entertainment; they wanted people to enjoy the entertainment that IS the Ren Faire. So much for flash-mobbing on a whim. Will and Zach Davidson DID do "To be or not to be" back and forth from the audience at the Shakespeare Corner. WITH permission, don't'cha know. The QUEEN was in attendance and when it was over, Will chased her down the street, with me in hot pursuit. When we got to her, we kept walking and did the Hamlet/Gertrude scene from Act III. STILL WALKING beside her. She stopped and said to us, "I want you to do this in my court. Right there." She pointed. We went. She ascended her throne with ladies in waiting and guards all around.
Will and I began the scene. And it occurred to me, I had not removed my rings on my right hand-----the very hand Gertrude slaps him with. And hard. I saw that he saw the rings were there. As I approached to slug him----to his artistic credit----he never flinched. I whacked him right across his face. The audience gasped. It was everything an actor hopes for. Some of the Queen's attendants followed us out and gave us the card of the woman in charge of entertainment. They said, "We would LOVE for you guys to work with us." I contacted her. Cross your fingers.

05/19/2019

Where does the time go??? We DID flash at the Ren Faire. All HAMLET, all the time. Not so much on the street this time-----they seemed to be encouraging people to enjoy THEIR entertainment, rather than flinging their own. Okaaaaaay. Will and Zach traded off on lines from "To Be Or Not To Be" on the stage at Shakespeare's Corner. After that, Will and I followed the Queen through the streets and then, by the Queen's invite, knocked each other around in the Hamlet/Gertrude scene. I do get to slap him in that scene : ) But I had forgotten to remove the rings from my slap hand. I could see that he saw the situation and, to his artistic credit, didn't move his face, but let the slug land. The audience gasped. It was beautiful. Some of the Queen's Court followed us out and expressed an interest in us working with the acting troupe there. We'd love that. Will follow up. LOVE THAT REN FAIRE!!

04/27/2019

Several of us are going to the Renaissance Faire on May 4th. We'll be slinging Shakespeare all over the streets there. Come join us. Scenes, monologues, doesn't matter. The crowd loves it........as opposed to the streets of L.A. where, yes, we've gotten arrested. Dress up or don't but COME!!!!!

03/11/2019

Don't know where my post disappeared to so here goes again: If I can talk Will into it, we'll flash some Shakespeare at his wedding celebration in New Orleans at the end of the month. Disturbin' the peace. My forte.

01/15/2019

We've all been so busy, there hasn't been a lot of disturbing the peace. HMMMMMM. I think I need a latte. Starbucks, here I come!!

05/10/2017

Racing around L.A. yesterday, dropping off this, auditioning for that, I found myself in my Manager's office, on La Brea and Wilshire to give them my signed contract for re-upping with them. And having nothing better to do for the next 4 minutes, I flashed Emilia (OTHELLO) smack in the middle of the office. "He called her W***E!", I belted out. Everyone looked stunned and it probably crossed the mind of more than one of them to rip up my contract. But erupting in the middle of un-prepared people is my passion. They heard me out. And didn't THROW me out right away. I left on my own and went on to see where else I could disturb the peace.

02/11/2017

There was some erupting Shakespeare today at the Galleria mall: Me, Will Rothhaar, Zach Davidson and Elisa Rosin. Shakespeare in a lobby. Folks wandering through to the elevator-----Will, following a timid office lady with "Frailty, thy name is woman". She was probably sharing it with her therapist by 5pm. Watch your back. Never know where we'll be disturbing the peace.

02/02/2017

OMIGOD!!! Devon Glover and I erupted today at the Robert F. Kennedy school, showing the kids in no uncertain terms, It's a good thing to take chances, look silly, make a fool of yourself. At least I did. With no intro I, an aging lady, threw myself on them as 16-year-old Helena from MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. I gotta say, it wasn't hard since I'm about 12 emotionally anyway. I whined and complained about Hermia stealing my boyfriend-----that rotten, no-good Demetrius. They seemed enthralled, but I suspect they were thinking, 'Who IS this woman, acting like such a baby?' Devon laid his rapping brilliance on them with a sonnet and then his own translated spin. He's a genius. We had a blast. Hope they did!!

11/02/2016

Salty Shakes has been hired for two events. On Dec. 4th, 2016, the L.A. Public Library is opening its Shakespeare exhibition in the downtown branch, 630 5th St. We will be erupting 11-1 on that day. In the spring (don't know the date yet), Whittier College has hired us to flash scenes from HAMLET all over their campus. We're verbal taggers, don't'cha know.