Miss Fit Toys.

From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wilds of Connectit.

This is obscure, the podcast in which I read you, the obscure out loud and comment on it as I go.

I am your host. Your guide through the Victorian wilderness, the thickets of esoterica.

In literary Mansplainer in chief Michael Ian Black,

it is as always a joy and delight to be with you.

Last night, the family and I went to go see a production of much ado about nothing

by William Shakespeare.

Hey Shakespeare, we saw you play last night.

Not bad.

And it was not bad at all.

This was the Hudson Valley River players I want to say. They've been around a long time.

They do their productions at Baskabel, which is in Phillipstown, New York, or thereabouts,

on the site of a gorgeous 18th century manor house.

Okay?

And it overlooks the Hudson River. You can see all of West Point from the grounds,

yay half a mile as the crow flies distant. And on, it set in this incredible Vista is a big tent not like a circus tent but like a big

you know like a professional well I guess it's I guess it could be a circus tent if it's so late and there's there's

theater seating in there and then they do shows so it's the first time I've ever

been I'd heard it was terrific I can't say I spent the day all excited

because I was going to see Shakespeare hey Shakespeare I wasn't that excited the day was

rainy and overcast and you think oh that's not going to be fun. You know it's it's basically an outdoor theater, but it's under it's covered and we went by gosh, and by Gaul, it was terrific, I say.

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