a month ago i picked up a book on stage directing in my schoolās black box and opened to a random page and it was something about making shakespearean actors rehearse by adding the word fuck to their lines to turn the archaic language into something familiar for the emotional resonance (of course taking it out as rehearsals move along to fix rhythm/etc but just to start off) and the example it gave was the solid flesh speech. like. iirc it was specificallyĀ ābut two fucking months deadā
and like. im obsessed with this. as a concept. not even for acting i just think itās so fucking funny. to be or not to be, thatās the fucking question. is this a fucking dagger i see before me. this is the excellent fuckery of the world -
What fucking fire is in mine ears? Here is my fucking butt.
āPress not a falling man too fucking far!ā - Lord Chamberlain, Henry VIII, Act 3 scene 2
One of my absolute favourite things in the world is aĀ āfuck runā. If the energy is too low, or the intensity is dropping the director might ask you to run a scene, or sometimes even the whole play, and insertĀ āfuckā or any of its derivatives wherever you feel the urge to. I have never experienced anything so quickly and ferociously liven a scene. Itās like a defibrillator.Ā
Once did the last half of Oedipus Rex as aĀ āfuck runā leading to such incredible double entendres as: āOedipus, son, dear child, who motherfucking bore youā.
Other highlights from times Iāve either taken part or seen a fuck run:
āI would eat his heart in the fucking marketplaceā āI have, of late, though wherefore I know the fuck not, lost all my motherfucking mirth.ā āYour royal fatherās fucking murdered.āĀ āFuckfuckfuck. O, by fucking who?ā āGentlemen, remember that I am a fucking assā āWhy the fuck did you bring these fucking daggers from the place? They must lie fucking there! Fuck! Go fucking carry them, and smear the sleepy grooms with fucking bloodā āScrew your courage the FUCKING sticking place and weāll not failā
We once did a run through where we treatedĀ āhoā like it had modern usage. Lead to things likeĀ āwhat ho?ā andĀ āwhoās within there, ho?āĀ



















