Play review: ( The Revenger's Tragedy )

So, Measure for Measure is over. While I wish we could have spent a little longer on it, and (contrariwise) it's always a pity to have spent so many months preparing for only a couple hours' actual performing, nonetheless I'm relieved it's over and done with and I can look for other things to do with my time and mental energy ( Read more... )

Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's epic play of Pompey the Great's metamorphosis from common pimp to Lord High Executioner (in Training). There is also a B-plot, involving a fantastical duke and a bed trick ( Read more... )

Saturday: Brotherhood of the Wolf on Netflix, French film (2001) based on the true history of the Beast of Gévaudan. Highly recommended as an alternative to the current Red Riding Hood: same wolf theme, same snow, cloaks, and cleavage; but also features the biggest best-appointed bordello in the Auvergne, Native-American-wire-fu martial arts, and ( Read more... )

( Dressed in a little brief authority - 'Measure for Measure' )

In the front of the RSC paperback of Measure for Measure that we're using for our script is the usual sort of ten-page introduction summarizing the main themes and morals of the play (nothing like the extensive analysis and supporting text that come after the text), and in this case quoting a lot of Walter Pater. Co-editor Jonathan Bate works ( Read more... )

[from Measure for Measure: the Musical!]

Ragozine!
The notorious pirate Ragozine!
With a history of bloodshed and rapine,
Ragozine!

Ragozine!
The prison bitch of Master Barnardine!
He lives and dies entirely off-screen,
Ragozine!

Ragozine!
Posed naked for a ladies' magazine!
His headless ghost comes back on Hallowe'en,1
Ragozine!

1 Was't not on ( Read more... )

So, I know what part I'm cast in - and it's not one I would ever have guessed for me. Presumably most other people know how they've been cast but no one is saying, not a peep. Possibly they have good reason for this, so I shan't be the one to start; besides, I can wait 30 more hours till the readthru. So I'll talk about other things.

Measure ( Read more... )

The question came up: how does our commedia-style improv compare with doing a scripted play?
( Here are some rambling thoughts. )

Saturday morning, C & B went off for a weekend of college visits (with B's friend KF): Johnson & Wales Saturday, U. of New Haven Sunday. I spent the morning pottering around: doing loads of dishwasher, folding laundry, assembling impedimenta for the event, walking the dog, and eventually leaving for Falling Leaves. (Since I was the only family in ( Read more... )