Posts tagged a midsummer night’s dream
Posted by on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 9:14 pm
(Since all the TDS actors are on a Midsummer mode, this actually came to me during one of Titania’s catnaps :p) THEATER is: T for Talent. The most obvious attribute of theater, of course. While some may find it vain or embarrassing to physically demonstrate a talent, in theater, you know it is imperative that [...]
Posted by on Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 11:16 am
“Faintness constraineth me to measure out my length on this cold bed!” Zig just delivered that line ad nauseum for the past ten minutes. Apparently, Shakespeare wrote that line such that if you deliver it properly, you really will sound like faintness does in fact constraineth you to measure out your length on a cold [...]
Posted by on Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 10:44 am
Shakespeare scared the living daylights out of me. As a grown woman who has never taken up Shakespeare in school, finding out that we’re re-staging Shakespeare’s a Midsummer Night’s Dream didn’t excite me as much as our previous productions since my knowledge of this iconic writing legacy was limited to “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou [...]
Posted by on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 11:21 pm
When i was young, i envisioned myself living the life of a theater actress, running from one rehearsal to another with a bag stuffed with scripts and musical scores. I imagined myself to be a cross between Pauline Fossil from Noel Streatfeild’s “Ballet Shoes” and anyone at all from the cast of “Fame” (the TV [...]
