Because we were travelling yesterday and I did not have time.

Day #16: Your first play you saw - MacbethI'm not counting film versions, so the first Shakespeare play I ever saw was in March of 1998 when I visited London for the first time. My father and I had just arrived on the red-eye that morning and happened to be wandering round Shaftesbury ( Read more... )

Day #15: The first play you read - Romeo and Juliet

( In which I attempt to articulate why I love Romeo and Juliet. )

Day #14: Your favourite fight scene - 1 Henry IV and 3 Henry VI

I'm really drawing a blank on this one, mostly because fight scenes are so completely dependent on performance and most action sequences in Shakespeare can turn out brilliantly, horribly, or anywhere in between. One need only look at the Evil Shakespeare Overlord ListThat being said, ( Read more... )

Because I completely forgot to post Day 12 yesterday, you get two today. Lucky you! ;)

Day #13: Your favourite romantic scene - As You Like It, Act IV, Scene I

( No, faith, die by attorney. )

Day #12: Your favourite scene

Damn you, meme, how dare you make me choose? I will arbitrarily narrow it down to...five. Okay, five. In no particular order.

( In which we find a representative sampling )

Day #11: Your least favourite play - The Taming of the Shrew

This is in spite of the fact that the first time I ever performed Shakespeare was in my tenth-grade English class, doing Shrew, Act IV, Scene I. The more problematic aspects of the scene -- like the fact that Petruchio was literally starving Kate -- completely passed me by, so happy was ( Read more... )

This is me catching up. Two in one day! But, of course, this one was easy. ;)

Day #10: Your favourite history - The Henry VI trilogy

Again, I am blatantly cheating since, based on my Day 1 answer, this entry ought to be about Richard III. But these plays never get enough love, so there.

( Yeah, some of the verse is embarrassing. And it seems probable that Shakespeare wasn't fully responsible for them. But I LOVE THESE PLAYS. Also, this got very long, hence the cut. )

Alas, there was a wagon and I fell off, mostly because I couldn't decide on my favourite tragedy. So I will attempt to do so for purposes of this post.

Day #9: Your favourite tragedy - King Lear
( Although with a fair bit of wittering about Othello as well. )

Day #8: Your favourite comedy - Much Ado About Nothing

Twelfth Night is one of my favourite memories from undergrad -- it was my first big role and the cast had this really amazing rapport that lasted long after the production ended. Possibly I only feel this way because I was seventeen years old and life had been extremely boring before that ( Read more... )

First, a shortish report on last night, when I joined cisic and sadcypress for a production of The Comedy of Errors at Baltimore Shakespeare Festival.
( See below )