My first reply bounced so I'm resending, with a smaller file. Best, Gail
Dear Everybody,
I'm attaching my list of favorites but am very, very open to being overruled. I loved
these choices from the start. I'm assuming that we can work in bit and pieces of
song, dance, and poetry as transitions between scenes so I've not listed those. If
I've gone slightly over, it's just so that we can show more of a given play to
build toward the ending. I realise that I'm underrepresenting comedy, however and I
guess I'd be willing to forfeit Pericles? If Jackson doesn't get to do Petruchio,
though, it will be our loss!
Warmest best wishes,
Gail
Pasting my choices here:
KING LEAR
2.4. Regan and Goneril dismantle Lear, culminating in Lear’s “O reason not the need”
speech, right before he heads out into the storm.
4.7 Lear-Cordelia reconciliation (Lear awakes to Cordelia) NOTE: Gail once saw a group of
RSC actors do the Pyramus and Thisbe scene from MND and segue from that straight into
'Howl, howl, howl', transforming P and T into L and C.
1 HENRY IV
3.2 Justice Shallow and Justice Silence reminiscing about their youths and absent friends.
It is so, so right for us. It's the scene I'd most like to see on the menu.
MIDSUMMER
3.1. Bottom transformed and taken by Titania
3.2 Magicked lovers, lost and found in the forest
Bottom's Dream and report to the Rude Mechanicals
WINTER’S TALE
Paulina shows Leontes his infant child (and possibly the finding of Perdita by the
shepherd?)
3.2 trial of Hermione
5.3, final scene – Hermione’s awakening.
PERICLES
(Has a great party scene; and a shipwreck, when Marina is born and her mother Thaisa dies
and has to go overboard.)
3.2 Thaisa revived by Cerimon (NOW YOU’RE TALKIN’ MAGIC)
5.1, 2, 3 Marina revives Pericles; they are united with Thaisa.