http://arts.ks.gov/kat_roster/guidelines/index.shtml

Wouldn’t you qualify for touring your magic show in Kansas libraries?

Would be sooo cooool to see you on the roster like Rick Averil and his children’s theater group. LOVE! Jennie

PS. Take my advice, I’m not using it!

My fear would be that somebody with such a strong connection to the quasi-miraculous process of eggs hatching may find the kind of trick that I propose to do with an egg someday to be brutish and/or scary. So lucky for her, she’s quite unlikely ever to see it done.

Even though my always-far-from-inclusive knowledge of Shakespearean criticism is now over a decade faded, one thing that I recall a certain contingent of critics, Stephen Greenblatt among them, having done a routinely brilliant job of recreating was the daylight world of Shakespeare’s Globe, where most of his plays were performed for an audience that included people of all levels of education, amidst a higher level of general hubbub than we’d be likely to accept, in a “shady” area of town that also featured the nearby likes of bear-baiting pits, with all kinds of noise floating in from the street outside, etc. Our current sense of Shakespearean theatrical decorum, which owes much to later times and places–of everybody sitting in a comfortable, darkenened space, dutifully and quietly facing an artfully illuminated stage, while straining to hear every widely-seen-as-timeless-and-profound word–is far different from anything that Shakespeare or his original audiences might have imagined. I intended no lese majesty by the kind of Trix/Othello juxtaposition that you highlight, in part because it would likely have struck much of Shakespeare’s original audience as a far less jarring thing than it tends to strike us as being now.
So much more could be said, but I’ll close with this quotation from Emerson, which captures much in few words: “We have made a miracle of Shakespeare.” And though he gave us remarkable material to work with, it still took–and takes–some doing.

But whether you agree with any of that or not, J., I take your comment as a compliment and appreciate your taking the time to make it. I hope you’ll return here again.

She invented a game in which she stoops behind a table or chair, then declares “hatch” and jumps up. It’s her version of peek-a-boo.

She, for one, would love your egg trick.

Now I want to see a magic show and oh, No! I’m hungry for an omelette!

Keep writing, Please!

Thank you again for your comment and continued success to you, too.

Thank you also for your thoughts on tricks vs. magic snd for your good wishes on finding the right egg trick. You keep on, too.

Or, shine a flashlight through your chicken egg – at least that’s how we check for viable embryos.