From: Terry Galloway

To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 5:59 AM

Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Round II

Just wanted to be sure someone suggested bottoms dream. I like it so 
much better than prospero's

Love you sweetie
Terry

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On May 22, 2010, at 11:27 PM, Alice Gordon <alicegordon@earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> To all, my apologies for not getting the complete list to you 
> tonight. Blue
> Mountain Center duties interfered. But tomorrow you'll have it in the
> afternoon to refer to in case you have last-minute wishes.
>
>
>
>
>> From: James Ayres <jayres@cvctx.com>
>> Reply-To: <weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 16:54:12 -0700
>> To: <weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Round II
>>
>> Bob:
>>
>> This is wonderful !  Thanks very much.
>>
>> Doc
>> On May 15, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Pees, Robert wrote:
>>
>>> I also really like Gail’s idea of starting with children of storms
>>> and moving on to the softening of hearts.  One of the reasons that
>>> the reconciliation scenes are so powerful is that they were preceded
>>> by jolting dislocations—monumental storms, whether meteorologica
>>> l or
>>> personal.    When Cordelia says that she has “no cause, no cau
>>> se,”
>>> we recall that she indeed has cause to resent her thundering
>>> father.  When Hermione emerges warm and alive from her statue-like
>>> posture, we recall her previously standing stony-still in a trial-
>>> like setting while Leontes charged her with infidelity and treason.
>>> So, if feasible within our format, we might want to include earlier
>>> scenes from the same plays that fuel the emotions that we feel when
>>> we see and hear these reconciliation scenes. And as Jeff observes,
>>> scenes from different plays can also reverberate and infuse and
>>> reinforce themes.  The possibilities are truly infinite.   Below are
>>> a bunch of ideas, some of which incorporate scene suggestions
>>> already made, some of which are new (for example, the silly songs
>>> from the TV series “Slings and Arrow), and some of which are
>>> designed just to continue the conversation about how to mix and
>>> match all of the ideas that are coming in.  The list below divides
>>> the themes of Mystery/Magic/Reunion/Reconciliation into two broad
>>> categories (mystery/magic on the one hand, and reunion/
>>> reconciliation on the other) separated by an intermission, but
>>> that’s just arbitrary on my part.  If I had to pick only a few
>>> personal favorites from the list below, I would go with the statue
>>> scene in The Winter’s Tale, Lear’s awakening before Cordelia,
>>>  and
>>> the Falstaff scenes.
>>> Part 1:  Magic and Mystery
>>> A bell rings twelve times.
>>> Prologue:  ‘Tis now the very witching time of night,…(Hamlet 
>>> 3.2)
>>> (“‘Tis now the very witching time of night” through “To 
>>> give them
>>> seals never my soul consent”)
>>> Scene 1:  The Weird Sisters, the Three Apparitions and the Show of
>>> Eight Kings and Banquo (Macbeth 4.1)(“Thrice the brinded cat hath
>>> mewed” through end)
>>> Alternative Scene 1:  The Weird Sisters (Macbeth 1.3)(“Where has
>>> thou been sister?” through “Till then enough—Come friends.”)
>>> Transition 1:  The Mackers Song (from the Canadian television series
>>> Slings and Arrows):
>>> Call me superstitious or cowardly or weak
>>> But I’ll never play a character
>>> Whose name one dare not speak
>>> I’ll play Hamlet
>>> In doublet and hose
>>> Or either of the Dromios
>>> But sorry, I won’t play Mackers
>>> I’ll play Richard the Third
>>> With a hump and wig
>>> Or Henry the Eighth
>>> That selfish pig
>>> But sorry, I don’t do Mackers
>>> Every soul that plays this role
>>> Risks injury or death
>>> I’d rather sweep the bloody stage
>>> Than ever do
>>> Mac-you-know-who
>>> So gimme King Lear
>>> Cleopatra
>>> Romeo, Juliet
>>> Doesn’t matter
>>> I’ll play them all for free
>>> But I’d be crackers
>>> To take on Mackers
>>> You see, I’m skittish about the Scottish tragedy
>>> Scene 2:  Bottom’s Transformation and a Spell-bound Titania (A
>>> Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.1)(“I see their knavery.  This is to 
>>> make
>>> an ass of me” through “Tie up my love’s tongue; bring him 
>>> silently.)
>>> Transition 2:  Mercutio’s Queen Mab Speech (Romeo and Juliet, 1.4)
>>> (“O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you” through “Turning
>>>  his
>>> face to the dew-dropping south.”)
>>> Scene 3:  Othello’s Denial of Sorcery (Othello, 1.2) (“O thou 
>>> foul
>>> thief, where has thou stored my daughter?/Damned as thou art, thou
>>> has enchanted her,/For I’ll refer me to all things of sense/If she
>>> in chains of magic were not bound” through “She lov’d me for
>>>  the
>>> dangers I had pass’d,/And I lov’d her that she did pity them./
>>> This
>>> only is the witchcraft I have us’d’)
>>> Alternative Scene 3:  “There’s witchcraft in your lips”--Hen
>>> ry’s
>>> wooing of Katherine” (Henry V, 5.2)(“Fair Katherine, and most f
>>> air/
>>> Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms” through “There’s
>>> witchcraft in your lips)
>>> Transition 3:    What potions have I drunk (Sonnet 119):
>>>
>>> What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
>>> Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
>>> Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears,
>>> Still losing when I saw myself to win!
>>> What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
>>> Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
>>> How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted
>>> In the distraction of this madding fever!
>>> O benefit of ill! now I find true
>>> That better is by evil still made better;
>>> And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,
>>> Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
>>>  So I return rebuked to my content
>>>  And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent.
>>>
>>>
>>> Scene 4:  Apollo’s oracle reveals the truth to an unbelieving
>>> Leontes (The Winter’s Tale 3.2)(This scene, which incorporates the
>>> trial of Hermione, fills the emotional reservoir eventually tapped
>>> by the statue scene in Act 5)
>>> Transition 4:    Antigonus’s dream (The Winter’s Tale 3.3)(Come,
>>> poor babe:/I have heard but not believed,/The spirits o’ the dead/
>>> May walk again…” through “Exit, pursued by a bear”)
>>> Scene 5:  The Resuscitation of Thaisa (Pericles 3.2)
>>> Transition 5:   Prospero’s riff on Medea’s Incantation a/k/a
>>>  “Ye
>>> elves” speech (Tempest 5.1, 1-56)(“Ye elves of hills, brooks,
>>> standing lakes and groves” through “I’ll drown my book”)
>>>
>>> {Intermission}
>>>
>>> Part 2:  Reunion and Reconciliation
>>> Prologue:  A bitter reunion—Hal banishes Falstaff (2 Henry IV 5.4)
>>> (Trumpets sound.  A royal procession swells the stage.  “God save
>>> thy grace, King Hal, my royal Hal” through “Take them away”)
>>> Scene 1:  The family reunion from hell—Lear and his daughters (
>>> King
>>> Lear 1.1)(Lear’s scorching treatment of his youngest daughter w
>>> ould
>>> be cause for resentment by most children—which renders all the 
>>> more
>>> astonishing her words “No cause, no cause” in Act 4, scene 7.)
>>> Transition 1:  A Walk in the Rain (song from Slings and Arrows):
>>> When life takes its toll
>>> When fate treats you bad
>>> You used to be king
>>> And now you’ve been had
>>> Alone with your fool
>>> You think you’ll go mad
>>> It’s nice to take a walk in the rain
>>> A stomp through a storm
>>> Is what I’d advise
>>> When people you trust
>>> Tell nothing but lies
>>> And kidnap your friend
>>> And gouge out his eyes
>>> It’s nice to take a walk in the rain
>>> You say your daughters
>>> Are evil plotters
>>> A pitter patter shower will keep you sane
>>> When all has been said
>>> And all have been slain
>>> It’s good to take a walk in the rain
>>> For several hours
>>> Helps to have a howl in the rain
>>> Without your clothes on
>>> Nice to take a walk in the rain.
>>> Scene 2:  Feste’s reunion with Olivia—the fool consoles the fool
>>> (Twelfth Night 1.5)(“Nay, either tell me where thou has been…”
>>> through “the fool should look to the madman”)[to echo the prior
>>> comical song “A Walk in the Rain” in transition 1, Feste could
>>> perhaps enter singing a couple of stanzas of “When that I was a
>>> nd a
>>> tiny little boy/With hey, ho, the wind and the rain]
>>> Transition 2:  “Remembrance of Things Past” (Sonnet 30):
>>>
>>> When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
>>> I summon up remembrance of things past,
>>> I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
>>> And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
>>> Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
>>> For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
>>> And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
>>> And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
>>> Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
>>> And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
>>> The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
>>> Which I new pay as if not paid before.
>>> But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
>>> All losses are restored and sorrows end.
>>>
>>>
>>> Scene 3:  Hermione Reunites with Perdita (The Winter’s Tale 5.3)
>>> Transition 3: The Dance of the Twelve Satyrs (The Winter’s Tale,
>>>  IV,
>>> iv)(“Master, there is three carters, three shepherds, …” thr
>>> ough
>>> “Here a dance of twelve Satyrs
>>> Scene 4: Thaisa Reunites with Pericles and Marina (Pericles 5.3)
>>> Transition 4: “Full Fathom Five” (song from The Tempest”)
>>> Scene 5:  A reunion on heaven’s threshold—Lear awakens to Cord
>>> elia
>>> (King Lear 4.7)
>>> Transition 5:  The Chimes at Midnight—Falstaff and Shallow reme
>>> mber
>>> good times (2 Henry IV 3.2)(“Come, I will go drink with you,…”
>>> through “Jesus, the days that we have seen.  Come, come.”)(In s
>>> tark
>>> contrast to the ambitious Hal, Justice Shallow is the steadfast
>>> friend to the fat knight.)
>>> A bell rings twelve times.
>>> And maybe a robust finale consisting of a song and/or dance, perhaps
>>> Cole Porter’s “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” or the following 
>>> song from
>>> Season One of the television series “Slings and Arrows”:
>>> Cheer Up, Hamlet
>>> Cheer up, Hamlet
>>>
>>> Chin up, Hamlet
>>>
>>> Buck up, you melancholy Dane
>>>
>>> So your uncle is a cad
>>> Who murdered Dad and married Mum
>>>
>>> That’s really no excuse to be as glum as you’ve become
>>>
>>> So wise up, Hamlet
>>>
>>> Rise up, Hamlet
>>>
>>> Buck up and sing the new refrain
>>>
>>> Your incessant monologizing fills the castle with ennui
>>>
>>> Your antic disposition is embarrassing to see
>>>
>>> And by the way, you sulky brat, the answer is “TO BE”!
>>>
>>> You’re driving poor Ophelia insane
>>>
>>> So shut up, you rogue and peasant
>>>
>>> Grow up, it’s most unpleasant
>>>
>>> Cheer up, you melancholy Dane
>>>
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