" If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourself into stitches, follow me."

[robinbloke]

I broke my Shakespeare virginity last night with nisaba and melston and went to see Twelfth Night at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. I wasn't sure quite what I was expecting, I was sort of worried that - since they were using the original scripts - I'd not be able to keep up with the dialogue.

My fears, however, were needless. The cast was fantastic, particularly the lady playing Feste who really stole the show. The acting was superb, although they had stayed to the original scripts sufficent injection of expression and modern quirks made it very accessable. I found myself laughing at both the adaptive modernisation as well as, so help me, Shakespeares original jokes.

All in all I heartily recommend that if you're in the area you take an evening out to see one of the plays while the festival is running; I'm off to see Midsummer Nights Dream sometime next month and am already looking forward to it.

I iz now officially kultured.

Comments

[siranui.livejournal.com]

Ace.

I find Shakespeare to be sidesplittingly funny. To write plays so long ago that still manage to mean so much and be so entertaining today is a real testament to the pure creative genius of the man.

[scy11a.livejournal.com]

So will we be seeing you sporting yellow cross-garters in the near future?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

They're so (shudder) fetching darling!

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

I love that play.
It's a shame that badly-read Shaxper is fed to schoolkids, because it's dreadful and no wonder people get put off. The lines as done by someone like Robert Lindsay or Frank Finlay or Alan Rickman or Maggie Smith or Joan Plowright... mmmmm.

If you ever see a recording of Robert Lindsay's Much Ado About Nothing, please let me know.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Shiny!

Would you be keen on company the next time you go along? I'd like to see MNS (again)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Certainly! I was thinking of organising a mini tribe of goths to go :)

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I'm small, so I can certainly contribute to the mini side of the outing

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Sign me up, please, if you are prepared to take a non-goth along! MNS starts on the 2nd of August at Girton.
I think a Wednesday would be best suited.

[drpyrojames.livejournal.com]

Err, is that some kind of two headed dancing fish, that is scaring your penguins? I can't make it out on this screen. *confused*

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

It's a penguin on hover jets :)

[drpyrojames.livejournal.com]

Ah, obviously. Tell me, when do the poor guys on the ground get SAMs or RPGs?