Season 2, Episode 5: A fool! A fool!

 Season Two features soliloquies exclusively from Shakespeare's As You Like It. In Episode 5, Taylor Lewis performs Jaques's “A fool! A fool!”; a soliloquy from Act Two, Scene Seven.

To listen on location, take yourself to Míqәn (Colonially know as Beacon Hill Park). Enter the park on the south (water) side, a few minutes' walk West from Cook Street. Turn right into the park at the first crosswalk or just a few steps past it using Camas Crescent. The Story Pole will be in front of you, which was created by Ted Shaw, Mungo Martin, David Martin, and Kwakiutl carver Henry Hunt in 1956, repaired by Coast Salish artist Master Seaman Vern Point in 2001, and repainted by Calvin Hunt (Henry Hunt’s Grandson) in 2011. Stand at its base for a moment and take it in. There's a chip path to the right. Take it for a few steps, just until you feel yourself in the forest. To listen stand, or if able, sit on the split rail fence. If the weather obliges, turn your face toward the sun. Míqәn means “warmed by the sun” in the lək̓ʷəŋən language. If the chip path isn't comfortable for you, there are memorial benches on either side of the Story Pole.

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Don't forget to listen to Season Two, Episode 6 to learn more about this soliloquy!

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis.

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.