Backstage

Tonight was the Silicon Valley Shakespeare Donor’s Reception for King Lear. Doll Piccotto, SVS’s Dramaturg, usually gives a talk at the reception, but since she’s playing Lear, she was a little busy – so she recorded her talk and made it available as Episode 28 of Shakespod.

SVS’s Artistic Director, Angie Higgins, told us a bit about casting Lear with an all-female/non-binary cast and some of the reactions she’s gotten to it (and similar casting in previous seasons). Then she took us on a backstage tour, including a chance to get up on stage for a photo op.

We’d seen SVS’s Lear a couple of weeks ago and Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s production on Thursday, so we decided to head home after the reception. It was strange driving home from Sanborn Park while it was still light outside!

Intermission

We checked out of our hotel this morning and drove over to the UCSC Arboretum for a short visit. We wandered through the Australian, New Zealand, and South African gardens and took many photos.

Eremaea hadra
Grevillea – Peaches and Cream
Pelargonium ‘Mystery’
Rapier Featherflower
Ravensthorpe Bottlebrush
Scabious

Our next stop was the Silver Mountain Winery tasting room in Santa Cruz to pick up our last two wine shipments, then we drove up Highway 17 to Burrell School and got our last three shipments from them.

It was nice to be able to make dinner at home tonight.