The theater class directed Shakespeare scenes, and everyone had to participate. These ten-minute scenes, each from a different Shakespeare play, were set up all around the conference center and performed Thursday night. We had to improvise costumes (mostly borrow each other's clothes) and sets. I must say that I was very impressed by what everyone came up with. As for me, I played Baptista from The Taming of the Shrew, and we did a weird alternate universe rendition in a retirement home.
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| We look like the cast from Scrubs. |
Somehow it worked! And it was pretty funny. Others performed in The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, As You Like It, Hamlet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Everyone did a spectacular job staging and costuming despite our limited resources.
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| Nerdy Macbeth (and his sock puppet companion) discourses with the high school witches. |
Amid our research and papers, we desperately needed something fun to do. Watching everyone perform Shakespeare definitely brightened our week! Tomorrow the Dickensians will go see the new Great Expectations movie. It works for my research as well, so allons-y!
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