The Tempest

Look at this, not even the end of June and I've finished the Tempest. I'd love to see the Tempest staged professionally, there's a lot of opportunity for cool special effects. It was sort of fun to remember back to when I was in a high school production of the Tempest, I think it was my first play. It was pretty fun, even though I had a tiny part and was costumed in a unitard (fairy, I think one fairy party was divided out to several of us). It's an enjoyable play. I'm not really sure what play I'll read next, probably a tragedy but I haven't decided yet, I've still got time to figure that out.

Finished Romeo and Juliet, maybe I just look at it from the wrong light. Maybe it's the fact that I hate tragedies and the going in with a sense of impending doom, knowing each crucial juncture along the way and still seeing things go wrong. The way I see it, there's enough tragedy in the world without going to watch it or read it for kicks.

So I haven't been doing well on the Shakespeare Project. As I may have mentioned, May's play was Romeo and Juliet, I realized on June 1st that I was about half way through. I've still yet to finish it. I still don't know that I agree with my Shakespeare professor that it's an amazing romance (I wrote a paper arguing that what R and J did was somewhat stupid, (I think I still got a B or better even though my teacher disagreed with me)). Perhaps because I think about where I was when I was R and J's ages, perhaps teens were more mature then but to me their love is puppy love not worth suicide. To be sure it's an interesting story... I don't know. I'll see about reporting back again when I do finish the play, which should be this week. Next up a comedy, I'm thinking the Tempest.