u/Kestrel_Iolani

Thank you, everyone!

I am accompanying my wife to Japan this fall for a conference in Hiroshima. We are active people, in our late 40s/early 50s. Her conference ends mid-day Saturday and we fly home via Narita on the following Saturday night.

Is the better use of our time:

-Option A: Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo

-Option B: Kyoto and Tokyo only

Or is this is where i remind myself "advice is what you ask for when you know the right answer, but don't like it."

Arigatou

I live in a very theater-positive part of the world. In the summer, there are more than nine different Shakespeare companies within a day’s drive. A few years ago, I decided I wanted to see the entire canon as quickly as I could, so I started paying attention. But then I started to notice something: the repetition. This summer, four of the nine companies in my area are all doing The Scottish Play. Last year, there were four different Much Ados and four different As You Like Its. The year before that, four Twelfth Nights.

In your opinion, is this simply a case of the “greatest hits” getting done over and over and over? (To be fair, one local company is doing both Coriolanus and Winters Tale, so kudos there.) Or do you think that smaller companies try to keep locals from going too far away? (aka: “Why drive all the way to Ashland when you can see the same play in Boise?”)