Tuesday 11 August 2015

Great Stage of Fools production

The University of Auckland postgraduate drama programme is performing a selection of snippets from the early English theatre, 20th - 23rd August, 8pm in the drama studio. For more information see http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/events/2015/08/drama-production--great-stage-of-fools.html

I'll try to go (on the Thursday, probably). Anybody else who wants to come, let me know, and we can make a party :)

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,
And to do that well craves a kind of wit;
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time;
Not, like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice,
As full as labour as a wise man's art:
For folly that he wisely shows is fit;
But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

Twelfth Night III.1.50-68 (Cambridge School Shakespeare edition, ed. Rex Gibson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.)

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