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foxhounders:

ppl who dont even like shakespeare: WOW how DARE you alter the original text these are CLASSICS have you no RESPECT, going around DESECRATING these sacred texts in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!!!!!!!

people who love shakespeare: im going to stage a production of hamlet where all the actors are dogs

it’s what he would have wanted 

Okay so the universal law of Shakespeare, as I’ve heard it, is that you can take things out, you can rearrange them, you just cannot add anything in that conflicts with the original texts. So while you cannot have a production of romeo and juliet where the houses get along and they get married, it’s perfectly acceptable to replace all the actors with dogs in hamlet because the characters are never outright stated to not be dogs.

“The characters are never outright stated not to be dogs”

“It was never a part of their journey” but better.

Things I have seen:

  • Hamlet set in a psychiatric institution where it was heavily implied the whole thing was his imagination
  • Romeo and Juliet where the Montagues were aliens
  • Steampunk Hungarian Romeo and Juliet musical with a fleet of rapping white boys
  • Russian King Lear which was the bleakest thing I have ever seen
  • Richard III set in the 1930s including fascist iconography
  • The Tempest in Space
  • Meiji Era Twelfth Night set in a Kabuki theatre in a fascinating meta examination of the role of women and men who play women (being performed entirely by a company of women)
  • Romeo & Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure and Hamlet each with a single very drunk performer.

I love seeing what different productions bring to the table, because it’s so much fun! It’s also fun to watch Shakespeare purists pitch a fit about it being wrong. Bitch, stfu. I know for a fact that when Shakespeare’s globe burned down, one of the drunken audience members put out his burning trousers with his pint. This was not high-brow sober art. This was for the people and they loved it.

fun fact, i played the prince in a high school production of The Tempest and looking back it so easily could have been set in space

Fun facts: TEMPEST in space is better known as FORBIDDEN PLANET and is a pillar of atomic age sci-fi. And a version of the 1930s Richard III was filmed and starred Ian -damn- McKellen. These fun facts are courtesy of my dude @actuallykylekallgren

Ran is a classic Kurosawa film that is King Lear set in Feudal Japan. He also did something similar with Macbeth.

I’ve also seen the Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas which was just delightful.

mittiesue:

so I got inspired to learn how to knit socks yesterday. I went out and got a couple sets of double pointed needles, as well as one set of regular circular needles. they were on clearance, which at the time made me quite happy, as these little guys are generally a bit pricey.

thing is, I think I might hate them.

I’m thinking next paycheck I’ll invest in a pair of magic loops and see how those treat me.

Me whenever I see people with knitting with circular and double ended needles

I found a pattern on a skein of yarn to crochet socks. I want to try that. The loom seems like the easiest way to go though.

I woke up this morning genuinely afraid I was going to be fired for something I did in a dream last night.

I finally got fed up with my coworker and told him to go fuck himself and flipped him off.

Tbh I shouldn’t have been afraid anyway because I wouldn’t be the first.