Hermen Launches a Dinner Theatre
Madama Nocturna: Happy Almost-Solstice, Hermen. Hermen: Oh, yeah ... there's that too ... Too? As well as Christmas. I'm going to start a Dinner Theatre for the Holiday Season. Good heavens. On top of your Poetic Menu, you're going dead literary, Hermen. Whatever it takes to bring in more custom. So we're mounting plays by the great Elizabethan playwright William Steadyblade. I've chosen Bethmak, so when Birnam Wood climbs up Dunsinane Hill we can make it be a forest of Christmas trees. Really? Is there room in here? Well, they'll be small trees. Decorated. And we'll also put on Queen Leara . Oh yeah, the one when Queen Leara says "Oh let me not be sane" -- blow-hard Drama Queen that she was. Well, she was in the middle of a storm blowing hard on a heath. She wanted to die. Was that when she said "a hearse, a hearse, my kingdom for a hearse"? Maybe, or was that one of Steadyblade's other plays? Maybe the one when he asked whether t