It's A Scottish Pig: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Hi everyone.

Welcome to the London Metropolitan University 3rd Year Performing Arts Shakespeare Skills Blog. Let's just call it A Scottish Thing.

If you're reading this, you've already been invited, but just in case you've never blogged before, don't worry, it's not difficult.

All you're being asked to do (this week!) is to choose a username (please, something I'm going to recognize like Andrew1 and not PinkfairyCake) log in, go to the 'dashboard'- which is the nerve-centre of the blog - and then create, write and save a post.

You all know your subjects.

So this can become a learning and memory resource for all of us.

Great. So Good Luck and Good Blogging!

Steve

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Hamlet's Advice to the Players

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, by use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant. It out-herods Herod. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly (not to speak profanely), that neither having th' accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. Reform it altogether! And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go make you ready.

It's A Scottish Pig

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Something Wicked This Way Comes

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