Casey ([info]st_masey) wrote in [info]1shakespeare,
2005-08-11 22:54:00
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New User Introduction

Hi! My name is Casey and I'm an english major and Oakland University(in Rochester, Michigan.) Although you probably wouldn't have guessed it from this hastily written LJ intro. I'll keep this brief to save room for more important/interesting/related posts. Shakespeare is far and away my favorite writer ever since I read Romeo and Juliet when I was little. My favorite of all is King Lear and I want to take as many drama courses as I can in hopes of playing Iago in Othello. The only downside is that I have not "looked upon the world for four times seven years" yet. (maybe by the time I'm a worthy enough actor I will have.) On a side note, I'm working on a fantasy novel in my spare time.

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[info]bellesayuri

August 12 2005, 13:27:30 UTC 6 years ago

You can totally play Iago. I saw a high school production of it once (cringe, I know) and their Iago was amazing. Seriously. Blew me away. He's now a nationally-recognized Young Actor or some such BS (totally full of himself) but he was only 15 or 16 when he did it. Breathtaking.

I wish you the best of luck in grabbing the role whenever you can! Be sure to tell us about it. Oh yeah, and welcome!

[info]st_masey

August 12 2005, 15:35:33 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you so much for the support. Are you talking about the movie "O" which was set in a high school or a play actually produced by a high school drama class?
There are just so many ways to play that character, yet so few ways to play him convincingly, I think. It would be a challenge since I'm hardly an actor now. I can't even fake sick.

[info]bellesayuri

August 12 2005, 15:45:16 UTC 6 years ago

A play produced by a high school drama club. It was absolutely amazing.


And faking sick isn't acting -- it's clever lying. There's such a difference between something like that and actual theatre. I'm sure you are fine, and if you aren't (or even if you are), experience and practice will surely remedy that.

[info]caliban920

August 13 2005, 06:48:40 UTC 6 years ago

I've always heard that acting is an elaborated form of lying, along with controlled madness.

[info]bellesayuri

August 13 2005, 13:15:23 UTC 6 years ago

Perhaps...I used to think that myself. But after years of study (emphasis on Shakespeare) I find that it is much, much more. Calling it elaborated lying is definitely selling short the amazing actors I have seen and worked with.

Not to mention that I'm a great liar, but terrible at faking anything -- when I'm mad, it shows, even if I'm supposed to be "playing happy". Reflecting on my skills as an actor (average, but better than the average untrained actor), I think that says something.



What, pray tell, is controlled madness?

[info]caliban920

August 13 2005, 14:42:25 UTC 6 years ago

Well when doctors think you might be going insane they ask you who you are, where you are, and what year it is. When you act, you ar not yourself, but your character, most likely the play is not set where you are then, and it is often a different time in the play(always with Shakespeare). You are in control, but you made yourself insane.



[info]bellesayuri

August 13 2005, 20:49:13 UTC 6 years ago

Hmm...interesting. I'll have to think on that for awhile.

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[info]st_masey

August 13 2005, 05:28:16 UTC 6 years ago

I have Edmund's "Nature, thou art my goddess" speech taped on my bedroom wall.

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[info]st_masey

August 14 2005, 17:57:24 UTC 6 years ago

My book is begins as sort of a satire on the Lord of the Rings. There was a battle against a dark wizard and his legions of orcs and all that jazz. He's called a melodramatic name like "The Dark Lord". That's the backstory. The story itself is about a young woman historian who goes to the "Dark Lord"'s evil domain to discover why the heck he wanted to conquer the world in the first place and what he planned on doing it. Along the way she meets the "hero" who supposedly vanquished the Dark Lord as he is going through a mental breakdown because he has no more purpose left in the world.
Bet you're sorry you asked eh? Ask for my two cents and I'll give ya a dime.

Anonymous

August 14 2005, 18:59:47 UTC 6 years ago

I'm not sorry I asked at all! That sounds wonderful actually. A breathe of fresh air from your typical fantasy story--which mine will probably turn out to be. But right now I'm much too caught up with a million "wonderful" ideas that I probably won't be able to finish even one before I've "looked upon the world for four times seven years". :)

[info]st_masey

August 14 2005, 21:19:27 UTC 6 years ago

Hehe, thank you very much! (I had a typo in my original LJ message that I wish I could have deleted, so I understand.) What is the gist of your story so far?

[info]peace_bunny

August 16 2005, 03:05:03 UTC 6 years ago

Welcome, I'm sure you'll love it here! I adore Romeo and Juliet, it's the most romantic story ever. And somehow Shakespeare's language makes it even more romantic. I think all the dialogue and the love poetry in Romeo and Juliet is breathtaking...my favorite part is when Juliet is reflecting on her love and does the speech about how when Romeo dies she will cut him up into tiny pieces, and he will make heaven so fine that all the stars will envy him, or something along those lines :)I sometimes wonder how anyone could write anything so beautiful. Shakespeare was truly amazing.
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