Arts and Entertainment
January 30, 2025
SHARING THE IMMORTAL BARD'S SEVEN AGES OF MAN SPEECH DURING THE TIME OF COVID-19!:
2024 Broadwayworld Los Angeles Award Nominee for Best Supporting Performer In A Play for his performance as Roy V. Bensinger in The Culver City Public Theatre outdoor revival production of "The Front Page," Darryl Maximilian Robinson, provides notes and video of his 2020 outdoor rendition of "The Seven Ages of Man Speech" from "As You Like It."
Veteran and award-winning Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles stage actor and play director Darryl Maximilian Robinson ( The Founder of The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project ) presents a "Street Theatre" rendition of "The Seven Ages of Man" Speech as the character of Lord Jaques from William Shakespeare's "As You Like It" in the historic Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on Monday Afternoon March 23, 2020, one month before the immortal bard's birthday and one week after the COVID-19 Pandemic caused the closing of all the theatres in LA ( including The Ark Theatre Company of North Hollywood staging of The Old Tyme Radio Hour production of "The Dick Tracy Radio Show" in which Mr. Robinson in the role of The Announcer had just made his return to the Greater LA stage in a Wednesday March 11, 2020 preview performance of! ).
Practicing proper "Social Distancing," the videography and editing of this Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project theatre video event is provided by Gustavo J. Casas.
https://youtu.be/CmAnCbNDy7Y?si=Po5BsQE89iphYcef
https://youtu.be/fc3NjgveWOU?si=2UFLpPR-eZ8Zsn_A
Darryl Maximilian Robinson, a 51-Year-Long Stage Veteran, is Winner of a 2022 Making The World Happening Award for his numerous online theatre-related offerings during the early years of The Covid-19 pandemic.