Here's where the drug use starts.
The majority of the characters appear in one scene.
For a devious fellow, Robin's not too bright. The trickster usually knows what's going on. Although he might not really care what's going on.
Our version of the faerie song was much better than that of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Sentinel agreed (he digs humans singing).
Hermia's speech to Lysander about why they should sleep in different places could be used in role plays for abstinence education. (Reading ahead, Matt wonders how they would use the scene between Bottom and Titania. Matt's sure he can find similar videos on the Internet.)
Patricia spotted another famous line: "Who will not change a raven for a dove?"
Patricia also wants to begin using "Night and silence!" as an exclamation. As in, "Night and silence! Matt is certainly inappropriate."
An ounce is the same thing as a lynx. Who knew? Some of Matt's friends in high school were talking about wild cats.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Act I, Scene 2
All right, the comic relief.
Bottom thinks he can play all the parts. A true Enneagram 7.
What a shift over history. When Matt was in theater in college, there would always be one or two male parts that were played by women. Pretty consistently.
Bottom thinks he can play all the parts. A true Enneagram 7.
What a shift over history. When Matt was in theater in college, there would always be one or two male parts that were played by women. Pretty consistently.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Post-Bush predictions
Hey, one night in April 2008 I asked people what they thought the biggest difference in the world after Bush was out of office would be.
Here's what they said:
Matt: nuclear will be pronounced noo-klee-urr (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/metathesis )
CJ: deficit reduction
Mitchell: bumper stickers reduction
Ben: Black guy in office
Andrea: other countries will stop laughing
Nicole: no more rain
Ramon: zero will start with "z" no longer
Mary: turn into a socialist nation
Chris: formal signing of surrender paper to "terror" (as opposed to terrorists)
Matt: along with its allies "anxiety" and "despair"
Patricia: adoption of metric system
Pat: nothing
Were you right?
Here's what they said:
Matt: nuclear will be pronounced noo-klee-urr (http://dictionary.reference.
CJ: deficit reduction
Mitchell: bumper stickers reduction
Ben: Black guy in office
Andrea: other countries will stop laughing
Nicole: no more rain
Ramon: zero will start with "z" no longer
Mary: turn into a socialist nation
Chris: formal signing of surrender paper to "terror" (as opposed to terrorists)
Matt: along with its allies "anxiety" and "despair"
Patricia: adoption of metric system
Pat: nothing
Were you right?
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Bird's Eye View
Hey,
I found this on Live Search Maps (Windows).
It's our land, but without the house! It's just a vacant lot.
Act 1, Scene 1 brushed up.
Our observations:
Hermia is the Michael Scott of the play. "Oh! If I tell the guy I like who likes my best friend what her secret plans to run off secretly and marry that other guy, then the guy I like who likes my best friend will like me better."
Matt observed Theseus having to best his fiancee in order to marry her and found that interesting. Some people want a sparring partner for a life partner.
He also thinks Lysander has the funniest line, "Her dad likes you, Demetrius, why don't you marry him?"
Patricia also noticed that Theseus is not that interested in Egeus' problems. "I must confess that I have heard so much, and with Demetrius thought to have spoke therof; But, being overfull of self-affairs, my mind did lose it..." (Matt says he's a flake)
Also, Matt identified with Lysander's list of why love doesn't work out. "Or else misgraffe'd in respect of years--" Then Hermia says, "O spite! Too old to be engaged to young." After all, Matt is four (three and 2/3) years younger! He would like me to type that he is five years more mature, which I am doing, but which I am also adding that he identified with Jim on The Office being 12 and playing ping pong just yesterday.
Patricia liked these lines.
Tomorrow night when Phoebe doth behold
Her silver visage in the wat'ry glass,
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed glass
We also have our first famous line, "The course of true love never did run smooth."
Next week: Act I, Scene II.
Hermia is the Michael Scott of the play. "Oh! If I tell the guy I like who likes my best friend what her secret plans to run off secretly and marry that other guy, then the guy I like who likes my best friend will like me better."
Matt observed Theseus having to best his fiancee in order to marry her and found that interesting. Some people want a sparring partner for a life partner.
He also thinks Lysander has the funniest line, "Her dad likes you, Demetrius, why don't you marry him?"
Patricia also noticed that Theseus is not that interested in Egeus' problems. "I must confess that I have heard so much, and with Demetrius thought to have spoke therof; But, being overfull of self-affairs, my mind did lose it..." (Matt says he's a flake)
Also, Matt identified with Lysander's list of why love doesn't work out. "Or else misgraffe'd in respect of years--" Then Hermia says, "O spite! Too old to be engaged to young." After all, Matt is four (three and 2/3) years younger! He would like me to type that he is five years more mature, which I am doing, but which I am also adding that he identified with Jim on The Office being 12 and playing ping pong just yesterday.
Patricia liked these lines.
Tomorrow night when Phoebe doth behold
Her silver visage in the wat'ry glass,
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed glass
We also have our first famous line, "The course of true love never did run smooth."
Next week: Act I, Scene II.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Brush up your Shakespeare
Brush up your Shakespeare
Start quoting him now
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow
If you can't be a ham and do Hamlet
They will not give a damn or a damlet
Just recite an occasional sonnet
And your lap'll have honey upon it
When your baby is pleading for pleasure
Let her sample your Measure for Measure
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow
We've embarked on another project! Indeed, we are brushing up our Shakespeare by deciding to read A Midsummer Night's Dream. I got the idea from the book Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire by Rafe Esquith. In the book, he outlines how his class of fifth graders spend a year preparing to perform one of Shakespeare's plays. Matt and I decided to adapt his method so we too could enjoy the Bard. We chose A Midsummer Night's Dream because Matt had just read the Neil Gaiman version and it is the only play of Shakespeare that I have seen more than once.
Here is the plan. We will plan to finish one scene each week. On Sunday we will assign the scene. During the week we will read the scene independently. Then, sometime during the weekend, we will get together and read the scene out loud. We've already divided up the parts. We also have a CD on order from the library to help supplement our reading. After we have read and listened to the scene, we will watch it. During all of that comes the discussion. Depending on what is going on, we may blog about it. Do you want to read along with us? This week we are reading Act I, Scene I. In the meantime, we leave you with more Cole Porter lyrics.
If your goil is a Washington Heights dream
Treat the kid to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
If she then wants an all-by-herself night
Let her rest ev'ry 'leventh or "Twelfth Night"
Start quoting him now
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow
If you can't be a ham and do Hamlet
They will not give a damn or a damlet
Just recite an occasional sonnet
And your lap'll have honey upon it
When your baby is pleading for pleasure
Let her sample your Measure for Measure
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow
We've embarked on another project! Indeed, we are brushing up our Shakespeare by deciding to read A Midsummer Night's Dream. I got the idea from the book Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire by Rafe Esquith. In the book, he outlines how his class of fifth graders spend a year preparing to perform one of Shakespeare's plays. Matt and I decided to adapt his method so we too could enjoy the Bard. We chose A Midsummer Night's Dream because Matt had just read the Neil Gaiman version and it is the only play of Shakespeare that I have seen more than once.
Here is the plan. We will plan to finish one scene each week. On Sunday we will assign the scene. During the week we will read the scene independently. Then, sometime during the weekend, we will get together and read the scene out loud. We've already divided up the parts. We also have a CD on order from the library to help supplement our reading. After we have read and listened to the scene, we will watch it. During all of that comes the discussion. Depending on what is going on, we may blog about it. Do you want to read along with us? This week we are reading Act I, Scene I. In the meantime, we leave you with more Cole Porter lyrics.
If your goil is a Washington Heights dream
Treat the kid to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
If she then wants an all-by-herself night
Let her rest ev'ry 'leventh or "Twelfth Night"
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