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"Oh, No! I missed out on reserving tickets for thi

"Oh, No! I missed out on reserving tickets for this Saturday's FREE Simi Valley performance of 7-Player Cymbeline!"
Don't let this be you... TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO RESERVE TICKETS!!!
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. Sonnet 86 Was it the proud full sail of his grea

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Sonnet 86
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,
Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write
Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
No, neither he, nor his compeers by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
He, nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,
As victors of my silence cannot boast;
I was not sick of any fear from thence:
But when your countenance filled up his line,
Then lacked I matter; that enfeebled mine.

performed by actor, director and educator Bill Walthall

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Don't say it: I know 7-Player Cymbeline has only t

Don't say it: I know 7-Player Cymbeline has only two public FREE performances left, AND tickets for this Saturday's Simi Valley show are moving fast!
I just hope everyone gets a chance to see this raucous, hilarious show!!!
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. Sonnet 85 My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds h

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Sonnet 85
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
While comments of your praise richly compiled,
Reserve thy character with golden quill,
And precious phrase by all the Muses filed.
I think good thoughts, whilst others write good words,
And like unlettered clerk still cry 'Amen'
To every hymn that able spirit affords,
In polished form of well-refined pen.
Hearing you praised, I say ''tis so, 'tis true,'
And to the most of praise add something more;
But that is in my thought, whose love to you,
Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.
Then others, for the breath of words respect,
Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.

performed by actor, director, and playwright Lillian Lippold

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7-Player Cymbeline has only TWO FREE PUBLIC PUBLIC

7-Player Cymbeline has only TWO FREE PUBLIC PUBLIC PERFORMANCES LEFT!
Don't miss what audiences are calling a "HILARIOUS and a not-to-miss show."
Final FREE east county show is THIS COMING SATURDAY in Simi Valley!
Final FREE public show is SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 in Oxnard... all remaining shows are for private audiences.
DO NOT MISS OUT!
(Eventbrite links in the comments!)

Don't miss out... only 3 more public shows left!

Don't miss out... only 3 more public shows left!

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. Sonnet 84 Who is it that says most, which can sa

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Sonnet 84
Who is it that says most, which can say more,
Than this rich praise, that you alone, are you,
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew?
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story.
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
You to your beauteous blessings add a curse,
Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.

performed by actor and director Alan D. Waserman

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. Sonnet 83 I never saw that you did painting need

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Sonnet 83
I never saw that you did painting need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
The barren tender of a poet's debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
This silence for my sin you did impute,
Which shall be most my glory being dumb;
For I impair not beauty being mute,
When others would give life, and bring a tomb.
There lives more life in one of your fair eyes
Than both your poets can in praise devise.

performed by Donna Feely

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Full video at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmCKSHeJ0Al

"It says here there are only 5 seats left for Satu

"It says here there are only 5 seats left for Saturday's performance of 7-Player Cymbeline in Thousand Oaks..."
Mark what Lord Exposition has to say, and reserve your seats NOW!

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. Sonnet 82 I grant thou wert not married to my Mu

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Sonnet 82
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise;
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days.
And do so, love; yet when they have devised,
What strained touches rhetoric can lend,
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathized
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better used
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.

performed by actor, singer, dancer, and dialect coach, Emma Krishnaswami

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You have only THREE more opportunities to catch 7-

You have only THREE more opportunities to catch 7-Player Cymbeline this summer. FireMuse Shakespeare has filled the rest of the tour with PRIVATE shows, so if you want to see this FREE raucous 90-minute performance experience, you have only three more public chances... GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!!!
More info link in bio...

. Sonnet 81 Or I shall live your epitaph to make,

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Sonnet 81
Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten,
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in me each part will be forgotten.
Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.
Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read;
And tongues to be your being shall rehearse,
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen,
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.

performed by actor, director and writer Julie Fergus

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Due to an unforeseen occurrence, the FREE performa

Due to an unforeseen occurrence, the FREE performance of 7-Player Cymbeline, scheduled for Saturday, July 31, in Oxnard has been postponed to Saturday, August 28. The new date's performance will still be performed in Oxnard and--of course--will still be FREE!

Our apologies for any inconvenience.

. Sonnet 80 O! how I faint when I of you do write,

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Sonnet 80
O! how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark, inferior far to his,
On your broad main doth wilfully appear.
Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
Or, being wracked, I am a worthless boat,
He of tall building, and of goodly pride:
Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
The worst was this, my love was my decay.

performed by theater jack of all trades Eric R. Umali

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full video at
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. Sonnet 79 Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,

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Sonnet 79
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace;
But now my gracious numbers are decayed,
And my sick Muse doth give an other place.
I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument
Deserves the travail of a worthier pen;
Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent
He robs thee of, and pays it thee again.
He lends thee virtue, and he stole that word
From thy behaviour; beauty doth he give,
And found it in thy cheek: he can afford
No praise to thee, but what in thee doth live.
Then thank him not for that which he doth say,
Since what he owes thee, thou thyself dost pay.

performed by Ventura County’s 2021 Youth Poet Laureate Angelina Leaños

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. Sonnet 78 So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse

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Sonnet 78
So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
And found such fair assistance in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And under thee their poesy disperse.
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine, and born of thee:
In others' works thou dost but mend the style,
And arts with thy sweet graces graced be;
But thou art all my art, and dost advance
As high as learning, my rude ignorance.

performed by actor, director, and educator Bill Walthall

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full video at
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If you were planning on attending this weekend's F

If you were planning on attending this weekend's FREE performance of 7-Player Cymbeline in Thousand Oaks, but hadn't reserved your space yet... you too damned late. We're SOLD OUT, babies!

Tickets still available for our FREE July 17, 24, and 31 shows in Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, and Oxnard... don't miss out!!!

. Sonnet 77 Thy glass will show thee how thy beaut

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Sonnet 77
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.
The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Look what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those children nursed, delivered from thy brain,
To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.
These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,
Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book.

performed by actress and dancer Ashley Maimes

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full video at
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ONLY 5 spaces available for this weekend's FREE Th

ONLY 5 spaces available for this weekend's FREE Thousand Oaks performance of 7-Player Cymbeline.
Eventbrite link in the comments below!

. Sonnet 76 Why is my verse so barren of new pride

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Sonnet 76
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O know, sweet love, I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument,
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.

performed by actress Lynn Van Emmerik

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