I was reading an essay last night on the phrase "Et in Arcadia ego" for a paper
I'm writing, and the author, describing Poussin's "The Arcadian
Shepherds," described one of the duties of art as "allowing communication about
the unutterable." I thought of Bottom's dream again ("no words of me")
and then had a vision of the performance beginning with everyone asleep on the stage,
everyone a Bottom, waking up to attempt to describe a most rare vision, then rushing off
to get Peter Quince and the gang to start rolling on that play and that ballad (or ballet,
as you like). Telling the story of the dream through the play and playing.
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On May 5, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
Here's the updated list, with Matt's M4M scenes.
2 Gents (pirates)
Comedy of Errors (knocking at the gate, Dr. Pinch)
Taming (servants at Petruchio's return)
Much Ado (Dogberry and the great chase, Kill Claudio (done in 2005))
LLL (play with the play)
AYL (Ducdame)
MND (Blame Clayton! Bottom's Dream)
Cymbeline (Iachino in the trunk, funeral song)
Winter's Tale (Paulina shows Leontes his infant child, dance of the 12 satyrs, final
scene)
Lear (Lear-Cordelia reconciliation)
Pericles (final scene)
"Brats of Clarence" by Paul Menzer
Hamlet (advice to the players, grave diggers)
Sonnet 30 (remembrance of things past)
Henry V (muse of fire)
3 Henry VI (Duke of York: "o tiger's heart….)
Othello (how 2 win Desdemona)
Sonnets 40, 116, 130, 138, 142 or others
Antony and Cleopatra -- news that Antony has married Octavia, also: II.vii.
song-and-dance
Measure for Measure -- Opening scene, Angelo wants only one thing: Isabella's
virginity, Isabella and Claudio imagine howling.
Macbeth: porter's scene, weird sisters.
Tempest: drunks. epilogue.
12th Night: drunks (done in 2005)
HVIII: Wolsey and Catherine. Epilogue.
"Everything and Nothing" -- Borges (Mike says Irby translation is better than
Kerrigan!)
"Little Gidding" -- Eliot
Falstaff scenes (1 and 2 Henry IV, Merry Wives, "Chimes at Midnight")
"Kiss Me Kate" -- "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"
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