Final Reflection

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• Liz Slater with a grandmotherly kiss for Adetomiwa Edun - Romeo - in the Globe's production of Romeo and Juliet. Edun, an actor from Nigeria, plays a frenzied Romeo - authentic to his Nigerian roots.

• Traditional London "black cabs" deliver passengers to the Globe performances. The London taxis, like those in the US, are beginning to be "wrapped" to advertise commercial businesses.

• Annie, a teacher from Ohio, demonstrates the correct position for reading with both right and left brains. This exercise, along with crawling (left hand/right knee, right hand/left knee) helps dyslexia, autism, and general memorization. Two more tips for memorization: memorize by poetic line, not by thought; and sleep with the script under your pillow. It works! Remember, though, when it's time to perform to consider the "thought units."

• A final view of the Globe stage. Some believe that this space is sacred. Many actors who perform on this three sided stage to a fully lighted audience find it difficult to return to the flat stage in a darkened theater. If it's true that theater is based in relationship, then the Globe stage is indeed a space where our spirits are moved.

• The Gosden House School's performance of Othello marks the most memorable moments of the three week study. Those of us who have full movement of our limbs, those of us who have our eyesight and the gift of language, those of us who move each day without help and without pain -- remember these "few," these "happy few," this "band of brothers," these brave, special children at Gosden House School. With them as our model, we risk and we change - without complaint.