DAY ELEVEN.
AGE ELEVEN.
Today is The Official Birthday of The Birthmonth,
so hooray for me.
The last show that The School/College took me to
see was by far the best.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (by William Shakespeare/The Watermill, West
Berkshire Playhouse/Feb-March 2003).
I am not a fan of Shakespeare generally and having
studied far too much of it at school, I was not likely to be impressed. But this show was the funniest thing I had
ever seen. It was an all male cast and
they nailed it. They made lines I had
heard a hundred times before finally come alive and they were so over the top,
the audience were soon in hysterics which quickly heightened the actors’
performances and absolutely everyone in that theatre (which appeared to be a
barn) had a whale of a time.
I’m a big fan of OTT performances channelling
humour – it’s what makes Frasier and Back To The Future so perfect and so
choke-with-laughter funny over and over again, and if you have to go on stage, this
already makes everything a bit silly because we all know it isn’t real and you’re
pretending you can’t see us, so to actually channel into that silliness
instead of ignoring it is just bliss.
I also thought Theseus was pretty hot.
Have you ever seen a Shakespeare play that worked?
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