Hee, thanks. We were talking about Ten Things in class last week, and a few talky bimbos were all, "Like, it's like really important to like, like make sure kids are like exposed to like Shakespeare, 'cause like the stories are like a classic." I resisted sporking them, but barely. I do remember the film, though, and did enjoy it when I saw it. (Other fun adaptations include Clueless from Emma, which is more my vintage of teen comedy. :D)
I think the prof wants a really radical staging (his words: "do something interesting with it"), which is what's tripping me up. We've also got Measure for Measure, The Tempest (♥ Forbidden Planet! - what about Chronicles of Riddick and Macbeth!), Merchant of Venice and Othello to work from.
It's the radical part that's throwing me. From all the examples he's given, he seems to want some particularly politically-charged setting from the 20th century. Escaping refugees, that kind of thing. I was wondering about The Tempest in a 60s Paris commune (essentially conflating La Chinoise with Bertolucci's The Dreamers), but I can't quite make it fit.
Whatever I end up doing, I'll probably tear a key character down to some essential trait, and find a world to build around him/her (and try to not make it a Firefly xover). SIGH. My life is so tragic, eh?
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Date: 2008-01-17 02:58 am (UTC)I think the prof wants a really radical staging (his words: "do something interesting with it"), which is what's tripping me up. We've also got Measure for Measure, The Tempest (♥ Forbidden Planet! - what about Chronicles of Riddick and Macbeth!), Merchant of Venice and Othello to work from.
It's the radical part that's throwing me. From all the examples he's given, he seems to want some particularly politically-charged setting from the 20th century. Escaping refugees, that kind of thing. I was wondering about The Tempest in a 60s Paris commune (essentially conflating La Chinoise with Bertolucci's The Dreamers), but I can't quite make it fit.
Whatever I end up doing, I'll probably tear a key character down to some essential trait, and find a world to build around him/her (and try to not make it a Firefly xover). SIGH. My life is so tragic, eh?