…'Lest ?

Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

夏の夜の夢 (A Midsummer's Night Dream) by Katsudi Matsumoto.

Titania & Oberon

A Tree Creature, The Tempest, 1951. Loudon Sainthill.

And the fact that the line ends on the word “time”, which is one stressed syllable past its welcome in the iambic pentameter, suggesting that time itself continues long after human speech (iambic pentameter) has already ended AAAAAAHHHHHHH-

I saw a wlw version of julius caesar at the theatre recently and it‘s been on my miiiind

legend 🙌

If you'd like to read it, it's called "Shakespeare in the Bush: Diversity or Universality?"

In her experience, a Malawian audience expects to participate and be a vocal partner in the experience—shouting out advice to the actors, heckling, noisily laughing, and cheering. She gave an example of one of the Shakespeare productions she directed: when Hamlet is at Ophelia’s grave and cries out “I loved Ophelia,” in anguish, a member of the audience in Malawi shouted, “Too late” and got a huge laugh. With a Western audience, that the same moment was met with silence and quiet emotion from the audience. When Nanzikambe performed Hamlet at the British Council in Malawi, which is a venue where most people from the Western world watch theatre, she observes that all was very quiet right until the end, when the audience stood and clapped and cheered. Until that moment, the Malawian actors were convinced that the performance was going badly because they were getting no vocal feedback.

Audra McDonald, Anne Hathaway and Raúl Esparza in Twelfth Night by Brigitte Lacombe, 2009.