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So I'm directing Midsummer...
2 seperate questions.
1. I'm making my fairy's all puppets. Rod Puppets, Corporate puppets, kite puppets, mask puppets, and variations on bunraku puppets. Here's my question - is mixing and matching puppet styles confusing or liberating to the magic for an audience? Discuss.Further more, do Titania and Oberon have to be the same kind of puppet? If I want to do Oberon a big 2 person bunraku style puppet and do Titania in a more Julie Taymor mask style puppet, is there anything wrong with that?
2. There are 3 or 4 songs and dances in the show. I'd like to keep the spirit of them. That being said, the last song in the show is Oberons "Now until the break of day" speech. I have actually found a song that uses the shakespeare text that we're gonna use. Do I then force myself to use the text of the other 'songs' in the show or do I subsititute them? I mean william shakespeare dropped songs of the day into his shows so is it 'wrong' to use popular music in place of his text? A good example is when Titania asks to be sung to sleep... the text is
"You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,
Come not near our fairy queen.
Philomel, with melody
Sing in our sweet lullaby;
Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:
Never harm,
Nor spell nor charm,
Come our lovely lady nigh;
So, good night, with lullaby.
Weaving spiders, come not here;
Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.
Philomel, with melody..."
That is fine but i'm trying to play up all the dream imagery... I was thinking of making the fairies sing her "Dream alittle Dream of Me" or an unplugged version of The Cranberries "Dreams" - I also have thought about using Puck and the fairies as 'scene change music' and using contemporary dream songs to comment on the scene... Thoughts?