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[pebblerocker]

Yay! I'm going to see a Shakespeare play this week!

I only heard about it last night; a friend is in it and it's selling out rapidly so a quick decision was necessary. My sister and I are going together. The play is Twelfth Night, which is (yay) one of the comedies and (more yay) one of the cross-dressing mistaken identity ones. (Did Will write any funny stories not involving cross-dressing?) I haven't seen Shakespeare for years and years and this sounds like it will be heaps of fun.

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[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy it a lot. It's been years since I've seen Shakespeare, too, but sounds like fun.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Sounds good - let us know how it goes :)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Twelfth Night is one of my faves, definitely. Though I think the Sir Tobey et al/Malvolio subplot is downright cruel, and Malvolio's last words on stage send a shiver down my spine.

(Did Will write any funny stories not involving cross-dressing?)

The only cross-dressing in Midsummer Night's Dream is when the workers deliberately dress up for the play they put on for the Duke's wedding (But there is humor over mistaken identity/changed appearance when Bottom is given the Ass's Head). And there's no cross-dressing in Much Ado

But Cross-dressing is a trope he certainly mastered well.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I love Twelfth Night. ♥ Okay, I've only seen it on TV with Helen Hunt in it, but it's awesome. And, uh, yeah, I think they all have some crossdressing. Then again, in Shakespeare's day weren't all the roles played by men anyways, or is that a myth?

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

Hope you have a good time. :o)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Nope, that's true. I'm not sure of the dates, but I don't think British women started working as actors until the 1700s, sometime.

[dr-sponge.livejournal.com]

Oh you've reminded me that I was wanting to go see some Shakespeare this year - Twelfth Night was up there - I was reading some analysis of some pop culture thingy and there was a discussion on references to characters in Twelfth Night. Can't remember any of the details so it doesn't matter too much...

[pebblerocker]

I saw a very enjoyable university production of Taming of the Shrew, where the female characters were played by men as they were in Shakespeare's day, and the drama group had a lot more women in it than men so they took all the male roles. Petruchio was charming with a very flamboyant moustache and Kate did a lot of stamping and swishing her skirts. The actor was rather cute :)