Welcome to the Saturday read-through of Twelfth Night! We are now meeting the director, Jerrold Scott, and the requisite introductions and background.
So his perspective? This is kind of a problem play: the major sub-plot is far more interesting to Shakespeare than the plot, Viola is fairly passive as a protagonist, the comedy works itself toward uncomfortable, the play can be a little unsettling. So it's an Elizabethan version of "Friends."
Major theme: Escapism. Steampunk as a metaphorical representation of escapism. Illyria is Steampunk nirvana; yet the characters are trying to forget the awfulness in their lives. And escapism is intoxicating; but what happens when escapism gets too serious?
4:25: "I don't want Twelfth Night to be emo."
4:31: "We don't want to be clever with concept choices. The point is the primacy of the text."
4:33: "Americans are starved for beautiful excess in language. Language is paramount, language is sacrosanct."
4:41: Show-And-Tell! Set design, costume design.
5:02: "Find the universal in the specific."
5:04: "We can discover what it wants to be."
Rather than a machete and chainsaw, it's cut with tweezers and pinking shears.
6:18: Jokes will be noted with a "wocka-wocka!"
6:30: "I am in love with Antoniolivia!"
Final table reading...please stand by...
Yeah. This show is going to be hilarious. Malvolio is taking direct asides to the Stage Manager. I think Jaime is quite enjoying the attention. Though she is also turning six shades of red....
8:48: And the sequel is Thirteenth Night, where Malvolio returns and kills everyone.
9:07: "You're in a great place. Well, don't want to shoot myself in the foot. I am VERY concerned..."
9:09: "You need to jump. Otherwise, I'll push..."
And we are breaking to start building and whatnot. Have a lovely evening, all!
So his perspective? This is kind of a problem play: the major sub-plot is far more interesting to Shakespeare than the plot, Viola is fairly passive as a protagonist, the comedy works itself toward uncomfortable, the play can be a little unsettling. So it's an Elizabethan version of "Friends."
Major theme: Escapism. Steampunk as a metaphorical representation of escapism. Illyria is Steampunk nirvana; yet the characters are trying to forget the awfulness in their lives. And escapism is intoxicating; but what happens when escapism gets too serious?
4:25: "I don't want Twelfth Night to be emo."
4:31: "We don't want to be clever with concept choices. The point is the primacy of the text."
4:33: "Americans are starved for beautiful excess in language. Language is paramount, language is sacrosanct."
4:41: Show-And-Tell! Set design, costume design.
5:02: "Find the universal in the specific."
5:04: "We can discover what it wants to be."
Rather than a machete and chainsaw, it's cut with tweezers and pinking shears.
6:18: Jokes will be noted with a "wocka-wocka!"
6:30: "I am in love with Antoniolivia!"
Final table reading...please stand by...
Yeah. This show is going to be hilarious. Malvolio is taking direct asides to the Stage Manager. I think Jaime is quite enjoying the attention. Though she is also turning six shades of red....
8:48: And the sequel is Thirteenth Night, where Malvolio returns and kills everyone.
9:07: "You're in a great place. Well, don't want to shoot myself in the foot. I am VERY concerned..."
9:09: "You need to jump. Otherwise, I'll push..."
And we are breaking to start building and whatnot. Have a lovely evening, all!
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