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I read Cat's Eye for BritLit. I liked it a lot.
Also, I was nostalgically surprised with this particular excerpt.
page 328
"Stratford is only on in the summers, though. She will have to think of something else for the winter...
She got the job at Stratford with the help of one of her Earle Grey cousins...She is one of Prospero's attendant spirits in The Tempest, and has to wear a body stocking, with a gauzy costume on top, sprinkled with dried leaves and spangles. 'Obscene,' she says. She's also a mariner in the first scene; she can get away with this because of her height..."
page 330
"Cordelia gets me a free ticket to Stratford, so I can see her in action. I go on the bus. It's a matinee: I can get there, see the show, then take the bus back in time for my evening shift at the Swiss Chalet. The play is The Tempest. I watch for Cordelia, and when Prospero's attendants come on, with music and jittery lighting effects, I peer hard, trying to see which one she is, behind the disguise of the costume. But I can't tell."
It's funny, because clearly these directors made the spirits wear black masks too.
Yeara was also going to make the Ariels wear body stockings. Pretty much everyone blew up at him for that. I miss Shakespeare.
Also, I was nostalgically surprised with this particular excerpt.
page 328
"Stratford is only on in the summers, though. She will have to think of something else for the winter...
She got the job at Stratford with the help of one of her Earle Grey cousins...She is one of Prospero's attendant spirits in The Tempest, and has to wear a body stocking, with a gauzy costume on top, sprinkled with dried leaves and spangles. 'Obscene,' she says. She's also a mariner in the first scene; she can get away with this because of her height..."
page 330
"Cordelia gets me a free ticket to Stratford, so I can see her in action. I go on the bus. It's a matinee: I can get there, see the show, then take the bus back in time for my evening shift at the Swiss Chalet. The play is The Tempest. I watch for Cordelia, and when Prospero's attendants come on, with music and jittery lighting effects, I peer hard, trying to see which one she is, behind the disguise of the costume. But I can't tell."
It's funny, because clearly these directors made the spirits wear black masks too.
Yeara was also going to make the Ariels wear body stockings. Pretty much everyone blew up at him for that. I miss Shakespeare.