"Camelot" Weekend

Left: Bridget Maguire, and Kaya, the Red-Tailed Hawk, wearing her fashionable hood.


On Friday, a sandbag broke, and scattered sand stage left. Sitting on the floor, stage left, in 'Lusty Month Of May' was apparently more akin to sitting on a beach than sitting on a meadow.

On Sunday, Kaya, the Red-Tailed Hawk, began muttering to herself in her cage, back stage. Her calls were familiar, yet eerie - the calls of a living raptor. Bridget had to take Kaya into the costume shop until she calmed down.

It's bad enough to spend week after week with stealthy humans, prowling around the same dull, dark building and always doing the same things, but at least usually it's after sunset. But when it's a glorious March afternoon, with the fields full of mice and gopher snakes, and there you are, trapped in the dark, it's almost more than a hawk can bear.