Marquee TV. For less money than I spent to see a live performance of the Bolshoi Ballet at my local movie theater pre Covid 19, I now have access to hundreds of the best live performances in every genre of performance art from around the world for two whole years. $4.99 a month buys access to more theater than you could watch in a lifetime. Yesterday, at work, I spent my lunch hour watching Act I of the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Julius Caesar". For aging ears, the subtitles made the performance even better than being there live. Don't tell Marquee; but, this service is worth a lot more money. Shakespeare paints Caesar as a Stoic, and the play has more memorable quotes than any other:
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― Julius Caesar
If death be my necessary end, I choose to spend some of my time with Shakespeare on Marquee TV.
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