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[hermionesviolin]

Tufts' Fall 2011 Film Series schedule is up. [More info here.]

Anyone wanna go to any of these with me?

Edit: And while we're on the subject, free outdoor live performance of Shakespeare's As You Like It this coming weekend. (Not my favorite play, but if anyone wanted to go...)

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[cadenzamuse]

Ha. As You Like It is my favorite Shakespeare play, so I would totally go if, you know, I were in Boston. :-P

[hermionesviolin]

Clearly someone needs to get on this whole "inventing effective teleportation" thing.

(I would be interested in learning more about why it's your favorite Shakespeare play.)

[cadenzamuse]

I love As You Like It because Rosalind is My FAAAAAAVORITE. There is lots of lovely girlslash between her and Celia, and I love that she runs circles around Orlando (although realistically that probably wouldn't make for the happiest marriage). I also love the layers within layers of cross-dressing: the way she vacillates back and forth between masculine and feminine attitudes both as a man and as a woman make me feel that she is somewhat gender-queer. Also, depending on how it's played, Ganymede and Phebe can have chemistry, which I enjoy, because Rosalind/Ganymede's attraction to Orlando then comes across as trying to convince herself that she's straight and fits into society, when (to me) she's obviously at least bi, and she would never fit into "the norm" of Shakespearean society anyway, because she is clever and headstrong and commanding. So there's that tension there in the ending to me, between the heteronormative happily-ever-after and the fact that Rosalind is really going to queer any relationship she's in. I also feel