(my favorite is twelfth night, so if you wanna add even more shakespeare on top of the four plays you already have to read… lol)
(My favorite is Henry V <3)
ooh i played henry iv in high school!! uneasy lies the head that wears the crown am i right :'(
Right :'(
I played Hostess Quickly and Montjoy, and it was the best show I've ever been in! The only role that's come close is when I played Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Midterm (basically Midsummer but dumbed down a little for kids)
omg hostess quickly would be so much fun to play. i played titania in midsummer in middle school! and then i was helena a couple years later. there are few shakespeare lines taken out of context more often than "though she be but little, she is fierce" lol
She was!!! Montjoy is my favorite role to date (unless Kate counts, but I'm just doing one monologue of hers and not playing her, although I want to!) but I've also mostly gotten ensemble parts lol. That's so cool! I played Oberon in 8th grade because there were only a handful of guys in drama club and so they cast me as him. I got a little makeup beard lmao. That's cool as well! Ha I have a "she is fierce" shirt that I got last summer, you're right about the context though
I want a "if I were a man, I would eat his heart in the marketplace!" shirt so bad-
i did a close-reading scene project where i was hotspur and my friend (who is a guy and a head taller than me, and i'm tall) was kate. it's so much fun taking on a physicality you don't normally get to take on, and shakespeare's work lends itself to that imo, even when it isn't explicitly subversive of gender norms.
and beatrice is my DREAM role omg i've wanted to play her since i was 12. much ado was the first shakespeare play i ever saw live, i keep a mini copy that i got in stratford-upon-avon a few years ago in my backpack at all times
OH I meant Kate Minola but that sounds so fun!! Most of my Henry V cast was generswapped (we kept the text the same though), we actually had two female Henrys (we swapped them out midway through), Montjoy, Exeter, Nym, Pistol, the Dauphin, the Boy, Bourbon, and Canterbury!
YES SAME! I would love to play Beatrice (or Benedick or Dogberry, but mainly Beatrice!!), Much Ado is my favorite of the comedies and I've been working on and off on a musical based on it!! I've got like nothing written but I swear I'll actually do it someday lol