thank you, Nora, for taking us on this wacky play. It’s fascinating how utterly dissonant this play is. Often you hear of actors who aren’t in the same play, but these characters don’t all seem to be in the same play, or at least, it’s such a strange way to take part in British mythmaking. I wonder how it would play to an American audience which…[Read more]

This is a great read,  Nora, thanks for arranging this, and Act Two really brings home the theatrical possibilities. The comedy holds up and it’s nice to see the sibling affection contained within it. Though of course, as has been mentioned, it was funny for me until the Prince got violent and then it was decidedly not funny. Nora started hinting…[Read more]

Thanks for these great comments. I’m coming in. on the last day of the project!

Already fascinated in Act One, by much of what has been mentioned, particularly the introductions of three seemingly important female characters so early. I too caught that Modestia gets a soliloquy in the first scene, and when reading it, I was compelled to speak it…[Read more]

Hi, everyone! I’m Charlene and my pronouns are she/her/hers. I’ve not read this play before but I am a big proponent of early modern theatre not by Shakespeare. I’m the artistic director of Brave Spirits Theatre of Alexandria, VA, and we produce more of Shakespeare’s contemporaries than any other theatre company in the DC metropolitan area,…[Read more]