I am all too aware that using the word Aloha in the title of a piece about a holiday in Hawaii is a pungent cliché. However, I looked up the statutes established in the State of Hawaii Department of Tourism, and it turns out it’s a federal offence punishable by three years imprisonment or a $30,000 fine not to do it. So there.

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Back in 2017 Kim and I went to see our very first Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble show. It was their yearly main stage production in Roma St Parklands and in 2017 the put on A Winter’s Tale. I remember loving the way the company used minimal sets and used the language and the emotions of the performances to drive the story. It was exactly the sort of theatre I wanted to do, but it seemed like a level of performance that was a bit beyond me.

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So a while back I wrote about how excited I was to be beginning an apprenticeship programme with the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble. Well, the programme has been a blast and now it’s time to write about how sad I am that programme is coming to an end.

However, there’ll be “no exit left pursued by a bear” for us. If we’re going out, we’re going out Hamlet style: spectacularly and with as much drama as possible. And that can only mean one thing:

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They say you should never meet your heroes. I don’t know who they are, I don’t know who coined the phrase, and I don’t know what they’d be likely to do if you cross them. In my case, I wasn’t able to meet this particular hero because he’s been dead for more than fifty years, so instead I dressed up as him and pretended to be him for about a week and a half.

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But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?

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