Two-Shrew Weekend!

[shadesong]

(Why do I not have a Shakespeare icon?)

DUELING SHREWS! We're going to see The Taming of the Shrew at MIT tomorrow night and at Harvard on Sunday. (There's actually a day where you can go to a matinee of one and the evening performance of the other - November 3rd - but we have other plans.)

Elayna is playing Kate in her school's production of The Shakespeare Project - modern interpretations of classic scenes. They're doing the wooing scene as a pro wrestling match.

Yep.

With the guidance of the... playwright? Adaptor? Arranger? they've inserted even more scenes, and Elayna has ended up with two additional scenes and a sonnet. Because there are three actors in her school with actual Shakespeare experience and she's one of them.

So she'll also be doing Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene set in an insane asylum and the Hermia/Helena catfight as an episode of Jerry Springer. (She's Hermia, of course.)

Anyway! Shrew this weekend as training for Elayna! She's already seen the Scottish Play, and she has the Hermia/Helena scene pretty well memorized - she's played Hermia twice.

Comments

[lightcastle.livejournal.com]

I'm less convinced by the wrestling match adaptation, but can see it possibly working. The other two she is in sound fantastic.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

And they were both her idea. (The wrestling match was in the original Shakespeare Project script.)

[lightcastle.livejournal.com]

Hah. Well, now I know who's judgment I trust.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Her Helena is the girl she spent middle school doing soaring Elphaba-and-G(a)linda duets from Wicked with. They are fantastic and high-drama together. It's the scene I'm looking forward to most. :)

[lightcastle.livejournal.com]

That sounds delightful.

[enderfem.livejournal.com]

dramaturge?

I dated a guy in college who became a dramaturge.....and then a lawyer.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

Gee, a Shakespeare icon. What a cool idea.

*cough cough*

[technomage.livejournal.com]

I like your life better than mine some days. Just saying… have a splendid weekend!