tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post689182512126931064..comments2007-08-19T10:22:49.229-04:00Duane Morinhttps://profiles.google.com/108055015572100370657noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-73896703915369844672007-08-19T10:22:00.000-04:002007-08-19T10:22:00.000-04:00I spent much of this summer <A HREF="http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/08/teaching-commedia-at-open-air-circus.html" REL="nofollow">teaching commedia dell'arte</A> at a youth circus. The kids became sufficiently fascinated by the origins of these masks that I was able to inject theatre-history into the class at any time-- and of course mention that Shakespeare borrowed extensively from <I>commedia</I> which immediately increased his stature with the 8-12 year old set.Ian Thalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-85133091803200848372007-08-18T08:29:00.000-04:002007-08-18T08:29:00.000-04:00Careful, you'll put your eye out! You're just another kid at heart. Great story!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-64871740127292467682007-08-13T20:17:00.000-04:002007-08-13T20:17:00.000-04:00Hi Ann,<BR/><BR/>How old are your kids? Othello's got some hefty sex and violence, doesn't it? As it is I find the pickings slim on which stories my kids would have any chance of understanding. If they get bored with Tempest I'm either doing Midsummer or Twelfth Night next.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16569611828708601563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-90991403605779601292007-08-13T19:34:00.000-04:002007-08-13T19:34:00.000-04:00My kids got interested in Shakespeare when we were watching a parody of Othello at the Renaissance Festival, and I was laughing at different places from them. When they asked what was so funny, I said, "Oh, you wouldn't know -- it's Shakespeare."<BR/><BR/>Then they wanted to see the plays and they've been hooked ever since. Each of them will get it on the first hearing of a play, and I have to watch most of them twice.Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06949862462362423020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-5809974043119469272007-08-13T18:47:00.000-04:002007-08-13T18:47:00.000-04:00Thanks David! I'm actually trying to motivate myself to write it down and expand it into something real. I'll have to post about it here if I get something done on that front.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16569611828708601563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-16752191248109140082007-08-13T17:36:00.000-04:002007-08-13T17:36:00.000-04:00Best. Story. Ever. <BR/>Cheers,<BR/>DBDavid Blixtwww.themasterofverona.comnoreply@blogger.com