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You know when you try and make up for lack of sleep by having 12 and a half hours continuously? Never try and do that two days before you have an essay due, especially after getting in at 4 in the morning.
Still, at least this one's only 1500 words instead of 2000, and I know what I'm gonna do it on now- I'm gonna discuss Freud's theory of dream ( Read more... )
And it's true- there's so much you can do with Shakespeare. The only way I can say that I don't like seeing it is a straight period adaptation. There are so many similarities in the plays to everyday life now, which can be brought out of forgotten, depending on how it's directed. I've seen The Winter's Tale brought forward to the 50s and 60s, and a really mystical, race-orientated version of The Tempest with a jazz soundtrack, and they were both absolutely stunning.
I reckon Boosh Shakespeare would be really difficult to pull off, but I think you could manage it. I saw someone try Booshifying Romeo and Juliet on the Haven archive once, back when I still checked there, and I didn't like it at all. She turned it into prose, but mixed the Shakespearean dialogue word-for-word with a modern English narrative voice. It just jarred. I reckon it'd have to take someone of your skill to make it work.
I do like her... you know when someone's voice just runs through you? She does that to me. Her voice is like... ginger honey. Thick and sweet but with an edge to it.
I kan maek u glow? I must havz majickul powarz! Eether that or u haz eated litebulb.
*sigh* what am I still doing here? I've been procrastinating all day, and if anything I should go to bed earlier so I can get up and do more work tomorrow instead of staying up telling myself that I'll do some work. I'm gonna wind up doing another traumatic all-nighter, aren't I? lol.
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Gosh, I love you somtimes, lmao!!
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I love you all the time.
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Actually, that's funny, because I don't like straight adaptations either. Although I did once see a really good production of Two Gentlemen Of Verona that was kept in the original costumes, but I saw it at an open-air theatre so that sort of made it part of the experience. But I agree, normally it doens't work.
Oh, I love The Tempest! I saw a really good production of that where they'd set it in the Arctic and had the wrecked ship being a nuclear submarine. I just love it when modern adaptations work!! (Confession: the modern Romeo and Juliet movie is one of my favourite films. *hides*)
Sadly though, I have never seen a Hamlet that worked. I saw one with Toby Stephens but that was all in original dress and it was, well, boring. Hopefully David Tennant can make it interesting for me, because I do like the play.
Oh, I saw that Boosh Romeo and Juliet too. (Can't remember why I was on there, but I was.) And yes, it didn't work. I actually wondered if I wouldn't use the original dialogue if I was to do it. Or maybe just put in references to it. Because the Boosh is very 21st Century, it seems a bit weird to have them all suddenly talking Elizabethan English.
But I'd need to find the right play. A Midsummer Night's Dream might work actually... I'd have to ponder.
Ooh! Definitely go after her then!! And like I said, keep us informed. I'll be crossing my fingers for you.
hahah... actually, I ate a lightbulb. Mmm, crunchy.
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The Tempest is my second-favourite Shakespeare play. I love the mystical, magical ones- my favourite wihtout a doubt is The Winter's Tale- it's got a mysticism and a sort of displaced realism to it at the same time.
I've been meaning to watch that Romeo and Juliet for about three years. It had never appealed to me at first, but I saw the start in an English lesson when I was in year 12 (which was odd because we were studying Antony and Cleopatra) and I loved it, so I bought it and never got round to watching it. I'll make it one of my things-to-do-when-essay-is-finished XD
Y'know what, I reckon we should set up a challenge on ff net- Shakespeare Boosh, see what everyone comes up with. I reckon if I was to do one, I'd do one of the mysticky sort of ones, but do it like Thursday Next's fairy tale thing, where something happens to put a bit of a Shakespeare tilt on the Boosh world.
I reckon A Midsummer Night's Dream would be a good one- it's not one that I'm amazingly familiar with, but it's one that I'd really like to see.
I should start cooking with lightbulbs more often... be a nice break from pasta...
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I think my favourite is Measure For Measure. It's so deliciously creepy. I've never seen it performed either but we did it for A-level and I adored it.
You should definitely watch it!! It's really clever the way they make it all work, so the Shakespearean dialogue sounds totally natural even in the modern setting, music, etc.
Now that could be a good challenge! I like your idea of doing it like that, actually. I was pondering on this today, actually. I thought maybe I'd do A Midsummer Night's Dream and have it as a cross between real life and the Boosh - so that a bunch of the real life Boosh lot end up in some place where Boosh characters also are and get all scrambled. There's a bit in A Midsummer Night's Dream where two couples get all messed up so both the men fall in love with one of the women. I thought some of that could work quite well - Noel/Dee/Chris/Sue confusion. But it would obviously need a lot more planning.
Or I'd just take another Shakespeare story and apply it straight to the Boosh characters. Probably would have to be one of the comedies. Not sure which one.
I wish I had a light bulb to eat right now. I'm going to have to walk through the cold to get dinner :(
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