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potato_head) wrote2011-11-12 11:02 pm
potato_head) wrote2011-11-12 11:02 pm
And Titania waked and straight-way loved an ass!
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO FORGOT, Paige was Puck in the school's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream this year. Well, the lead Puck; there was also a freshman playing Puck alongside her.
I got to see the play tonight and IT WAS AAAAWESOOOOOOME Paige was amazing and so was everyone else omggg I will put up a photo or two later of Puck!Paige.
RANT TIME NOW
I find myself growing progressively more and more tired of people who don't understand ANY of the jokes in Shakespeare. Or rather, people who declare his "tragedies" boring and only like the "comedies" and argue with me on whether or not all of his plays were comedies when they freely admit they haven't tried to understand the plays.
I don't know. I mean, I know Shakespeare is easier for me to understand than it is for many people, but...surely it can't be that hard. Surely. When the actors help you by making obscene gestures at the jokes, HOW IS NOBODY IN THE AUDIENCE AT LEAST GIGGLING. The physical humor the kids add is genius, but it makes me sad that if they didn't go so extreme with it people might not realize they were watching a comedy. Also, they put a synopsis of the play in the program now and mom still asked Paige when we got home what, exactly, the plot was...
SHAKESPEARE ISN'T BORING. GO APPRECIATE SOME SHAKESPEARE. YOUR HOMEWORK IS TO HIGHLIGHT AT LEAST TEN SEX JOKES IN HAMLET.
I got to see the play tonight and IT WAS AAAAWESOOOOOOME Paige was amazing and so was everyone else omggg I will put up a photo or two later of Puck!Paige.
RANT TIME NOW
I find myself growing progressively more and more tired of people who don't understand ANY of the jokes in Shakespeare. Or rather, people who declare his "tragedies" boring and only like the "comedies" and argue with me on whether or not all of his plays were comedies when they freely admit they haven't tried to understand the plays.
I don't know. I mean, I know Shakespeare is easier for me to understand than it is for many people, but...surely it can't be that hard. Surely. When the actors help you by making obscene gestures at the jokes, HOW IS NOBODY IN THE AUDIENCE AT LEAST GIGGLING. The physical humor the kids add is genius, but it makes me sad that if they didn't go so extreme with it people might not realize they were watching a comedy. Also, they put a synopsis of the play in the program now and mom still asked Paige when we got home what, exactly, the plot was...
SHAKESPEARE ISN'T BORING. GO APPRECIATE SOME SHAKESPEARE. YOUR HOMEWORK IS TO HIGHLIGHT AT LEAST TEN SEX JOKES IN HAMLET.
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Macbeth is my favorite play.
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I have to admit one of the reasons I like Hamlet so much is because I also like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which I realize many people haven't read or even been made aware of, and I might be kind of strange for enjoying absurdist plays rather than trying to figure out what they mean. (The two are mutually exclusive for me, I have trouble following the plot of just about anything, understanding absurdism is out of the question)