When the gates open, go with the Queen's procession to the Silver Swan Theatre, then set up for Instant Shakespeare, and trust that the Pageant Wagon is okay. I have a walkie-talkie that I hope stays silent. Pull a couple from the audience, and let them play the leads in Shakespeare's new play, which might be Romeo and Bubbles or Astronaut Lear. But before he dies, he improvises a poem. I'll take it.
Some touches are ingenious.
Very funny lady. Then I have lunch. I walk by the stages and the areas, check out the Storybook Stage, the Pageant Wagon, and it's time for Instant Shakespeare again. Directly that ends, I head over to the Roselawn Stage and start the final joust. This is a real joust, in which men in armor on big horses with long wooden sticks in their hands ride at each other at full speed.