Your incessant monologizing fills the castle with ennui
Hey, I've thought of a meme.
Sparked by the fact that I wouldn't actually want to be a Stoppard character—I'd die in a fire or I'd be A.E. Housman—who would you like to be a character in a play by? Why? Whose plays would you absolutely not want to find yourself in? (Nota bene: to be differentiated from the writers whose plays you feel like you're living in already. Given how most of my friendlist seems to be doing, that way lies Oh, yeah? I'll see your O'Neill and raise you Sarah Kane.) No fair just calling Shakespeare.
Otherwise I've stopped sleeping again, which makes the idea of more frequent posts seem even more remote and exhausting. I should still try.
In the meantime: talk to me about theater!
Sparked by the fact that I wouldn't actually want to be a Stoppard character—I'd die in a fire or I'd be A.E. Housman—who would you like to be a character in a play by? Why? Whose plays would you absolutely not want to find yourself in? (Nota bene: to be differentiated from the writers whose plays you feel like you're living in already. Given how most of my friendlist seems to be doing, that way lies Oh, yeah? I'll see your O'Neill and raise you Sarah Kane.) No fair just calling Shakespeare.
Otherwise I've stopped sleeping again, which makes the idea of more frequent posts seem even more remote and exhausting. I should still try.
In the meantime: talk to me about theater!
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I was thinking more in terms of being one of the blokes at the beginning of the play who's teaching M. Jourdain fencing or music or something--maybe the one who reveals to him that he's been speaking prose all his life, rather than one of the commedia stock-type characters like Cléonte or Covielle (or, God forbid, M. Jourdain himself).
But sure, I could probably deal with outright commedia dell' arte, although I'd rather not be one of the zanni and I really don't think I could be convincing as a vecchio. As I think about it, the inamorati usually win in the end, so maybe being an inamorate would be a nice change from the usual way of things in my life.
I've not read enough other Molière, as I think on it--Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was the one decent book from high school French. I should read more of him, sometime, or even see if I can find a video of a French production somewhere.