My plot summary of Twelfth Night for Nick, who just e-mailed me:
Nick: Which one is that?
Me: It's the one where this girl, Viola, thinks her twin brother died in a shipwreck, so she thinks she's all alone in a strange new land, so her solution is to dress up like a boy and go work for this count who she falls in love with, but who's in love with this noblewoman... who falls in love with Viola, thinking she's a boy. Hijinks ensue.
Also, there's a fat guy who is perpetually drunk, a fool who sings and more or less calls everyone else idiots, and a nobleman who thinks he's dashing when in fact he is simply functionally retarded. They and this handmaid get sloshed, sing, grope each other, play cruel tricks on people, and start swordfights. In other words, these are the characters everyone actually cares about.
So, obviously, I just got back from seeing Twelfth Night at The Arb with Rachel, Leah, and Duncan. So.Good. All I ask of Twelfth Night is that Feste, Toby and Andrew be entertaining, Sebastian/Antonio be slashy, and Malvolio's socks be bright. It delivered on all counts.
Heh, I had to end up giving a very quick summary of the first act to the gang since we arrived ten minutes too late (thank God we got there at 5:00 though, because tickets were sold out come 5:30 [or, rather, sold out as of two people behind us]).
( Shakespeare is awesome. The Arb is awesome. Thus, Shakespeare in The Arb is FUCKING awesome. )
And, because I need to say it after everytime I read/see Twelfth Night... Poor Antonio.
God, my feet hurt so bad (not from the mobile play, from the other Ann Arbor walkage). lol, I am so not used to walking everywhere (*is a terrible student*). Though, I'm beginning to think I should see a podiatrist. All the bones in the top of one foot are killing me, which can't be normal after only two hours of walking. Though it is possible I just fail at all physical activity.
I finished Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies btw. It was good, but rather disappointing. I was hoping for something a little more than taking the source material wholesale and adding in the occasional "ZOMBIES! NINJAS! DARCY'S BALLS! WACKINESS!" Though the bits that are funny are very funny. It has the graveyard humor of any good zombie film. That said, I think it would've made a better film (and I rarely say that). Like a grandscale, deadpan period drama that is every now and then invaded by zombies. And get Edgar Wright to direct. The idea is awesome, but quickly loses its novelty in print.
Nick: Which one is that?
Me: It's the one where this girl, Viola, thinks her twin brother died in a shipwreck, so she thinks she's all alone in a strange new land, so her solution is to dress up like a boy and go work for this count who she falls in love with, but who's in love with this noblewoman... who falls in love with Viola, thinking she's a boy. Hijinks ensue.
Also, there's a fat guy who is perpetually drunk, a fool who sings and more or less calls everyone else idiots, and a nobleman who thinks he's dashing when in fact he is simply functionally retarded. They and this handmaid get sloshed, sing, grope each other, play cruel tricks on people, and start swordfights. In other words, these are the characters everyone actually cares about.
So, obviously, I just got back from seeing Twelfth Night at The Arb with Rachel, Leah, and Duncan. So.Good. All I ask of Twelfth Night is that Feste, Toby and Andrew be entertaining, Sebastian/Antonio be slashy, and Malvolio's socks be bright. It delivered on all counts.
Heh, I had to end up giving a very quick summary of the first act to the gang since we arrived ten minutes too late (thank God we got there at 5:00 though, because tickets were sold out come 5:30 [or, rather, sold out as of two people behind us]).
( Shakespeare is awesome. The Arb is awesome. Thus, Shakespeare in The Arb is FUCKING awesome. )
And, because I need to say it after everytime I read/see Twelfth Night... Poor Antonio.
God, my feet hurt so bad (not from the mobile play, from the other Ann Arbor walkage). lol, I am so not used to walking everywhere (*is a terrible student*). Though, I'm beginning to think I should see a podiatrist. All the bones in the top of one foot are killing me, which can't be normal after only two hours of walking. Though it is possible I just fail at all physical activity.
I finished Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies btw. It was good, but rather disappointing. I was hoping for something a little more than taking the source material wholesale and adding in the occasional "ZOMBIES! NINJAS! DARCY'S BALLS! WACKINESS!" Though the bits that are funny are very funny. It has the graveyard humor of any good zombie film. That said, I think it would've made a better film (and I rarely say that). Like a grandscale, deadpan period drama that is every now and then invaded by zombies. And get Edgar Wright to direct. The idea is awesome, but quickly loses its novelty in print.
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