
I would like to say something on behalf of Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing: she is not a slut. She is true to one man – Borachio – throughout the entire show. She has been with him for a year according to Shakespeare and, when Borachio returns from the war, gets intimate with him and only him (it’s hardly her fault that people are spying on her when she does). She sometimes talks a little dirty, dresses to show off her assets and is intimate with a man she is not married to (how many of you are guilty of sex before marriage, hmmm?), but if that makes her a slut, I am surrounded by sluts right now. Poor, misunderstood Margaret can not stand up for herself, so I will stand up for her.
The show is going very well – audiences have really enjoyed it and Quinton Skinner wrote up a nice review in the Pioneer Press. We had very large and responsive houses for opening weekend that will hopefully continue through the rest of the run. I hope you get a chance to attend this very fun production, which is 1/3 Disney Cartoon, 1/3 1950s Italian Romance and 1/3 Traditional Shakespeare. Go to www.theatreintheround.org to reserve your tickets.
She may not be the brightest bulb in the box, though, if she chose to devote herself to a guy like Boracchio.
Too true.