Twelfth Night, or, What You Will

[ellenkushner]

Plays, plays, plays . . . .

Since moving to NYC, we've established an annual Twelfth Night Dinner & Playreading with my old gang from the last time I lived here some years ago - now dispersed some to academic positions in farflung flyover states, but reliably back here for the holidays . . . This year, we did Ben Jonson's THE ALCHEMIST, and it was a surpisingly great readaloud. We always cast gender-blind, and switch off parts with abandon so that everyone gets to be The Star (or the Bawd or....) for at least one act.

(But Ellen, I hear you say, Twelfth Night was yesterday, Jan. 6th, and you said you went to Delia's POE reading! Ah, well - this year we made it Erev Twelfth Night instead!)

So this is to encourage everyone who's ever wanted to be Beatrice or Benedick, or Cyrano or Jennet Jourdemayne or Lady Teazle or Septimus Hodge or the Prince of Denmark to waylay some friends with promises of punch, and do a playreading party before the month is out.

Which play would you choose, if you could be utterly selfish?

Comments

[margdean56.livejournal.com]

The Importance of Being Earnest is a fun one.