Sonnets on Stage

Sitting room, Montgomery's Inn

Each May, the Humber River Shakespeare Company puts on The Sonnet Show -- a five-play homage to five Shakespeare Sonnets, set among the candlelight and ballroom, bellows and bedsteads of five rooms of the historic Montgomery's Inn. 

This lyrical event involves a behind-the-scenes scramble, since each of the five writers has only 14 days to write their play. Inside Toronto explains the details.

On May 27, Kathy Bischoping was among the playwrights, contributing The Shallowest Help, a tale of spirits, fainting, and foulest murder set in a sitting room, in response to Sonnet 80, O! how I faint when I of you do write. Picture a St. Lawrence Market Ouija board find on the table above...

Many thanks to Kevin Hammond, Humber River Shakespeare Company's artistic director, for the opportunity to participate, to director Catherine McNally, and to the four actors!