The star of the show at the St. Louis Art Museum, Emperor Trajan himself (perhaps idealized). Spanish-born and widely popular, he brought the Roman Empire to its largest geographic extent and ruled from 98 to 117 CE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan
The St. Louis Art Museum recently ended a show called Ancient Splendor - Roman Art In The Time of Trajan.Mrs. C and I made it just in time. It was beautifully displayed, and the degree of elegance and craft was striking.
An expensive car seen outside of one of the main venues of the St. Lou Fringe.
My memory of the details of show after show fades with time, so I'll let the players' own description suffice here:
Abby Bentley’s Monkey in a Coconut is a musical comedy solo show about the true story of a second-grade student, a coconut implanted with a monkey embryo, and a search for the truth. The show grapples with big questions: “Can I trust authority?” “Is evolution real?” “Will this coconut hatch?”
Time to get back out on the streets of The Lou.
Not much more to go, since I shot barely 20 of 40 shows. These are two of the last from Sunday. First, Henchmen, about executioners, literally headsmen, in Tudor-ish England. The man on the left in the second picture looks the role to me but the one on the right seems more like he is wearing traditional Italian priest's garb (think Father Guido Sarducci on SNL, https://youtu.be/lWBhsiBMOIo?si=xhgNPkbXp29mEMam). I can't remember what the woman was about. Toward the end, the man in black tells the man in white that it is his turn to be executed. No reason was given that I could tell.
Then we have Improvsburg, done by two women from a small city in Indiana. Hey, it's got its own improv company! Improv often leans into audience participation and the group was sadly small on a Sunday morning. However, St. Louis' peripatetic theater critic, Tina Farmer, volunteered and got the job done.
