Alex and I went to see Shakespeare's "As You Like It" at Pardoe Theater at BYU. Alex is reading
Romeo and Juliet in his English class right now, so I thought it would be fun to take him to a Shakespeare play. Boy, was I wrong! First of all, I don't think I've ever attended a Shakespeare play that was SO different. The play started with some cast members in full-face knit hat with guns slinging. They were supposed to be revolutionaries or terrorists. At one point a car battery was used to torture a person. Also a water-boarding was used. But that was not my problem.
My biggest problem was that I couldn't make any sense of the Shakespeare's language. I wanted to have my remote control so I could turn on the subtitles or somebody translate by whispering in my ear. So, I felt like a 3-year old who is really good at looking at pictures and figuring out what's going on.
Even though the play was so different, in the end, the love conquered all and it ended happy. I wish Rod would have taken Alex instead of me. Rod is known to love Shakespeare, even took a Shakespeare class in college. Not me!
Another unhappy performance for Alex.
1 comment:
I like my Shakespeare but only the way Shakespeare intended it! I never understood trying to modernize the story or staging it so it seems as if the story is ripped from the headlines. The themes are timeless and universal and you don't need guns and car battery torture to make it relevant to modern day. What you really needed to see was men in tights!
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