Two poem posts!
‘My Mistress With A Monster Is In Love’
Spoken by Puck, Act 3, Scene 2
My mistress with a monster is in love.
Near to her close and consecrated bower,
While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
Were met together to rehearse a play
Intended for great Theseus’ nuptial-day.
The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,
Who Pyramus presented, in their sport
Forsook his scene and enter’d in a brake
When I did him at this advantage take,
An ass’s nole I fixed on his head:
Anon his Thisbe must be answered,
And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
Rising and cawing at the gun’s report,
Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,
So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;
And, at our stamp, here o’er and o’er one falls;
He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong,
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;
For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch.
I led them on in this distracted fear,
And left sweet Pyramus translated there:
When in that moment, so it came to pass,
Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
Tonight I was honored to watch the Esh Circus Arts Student Show. (*waves to RK*) One performer perfectly performed this speech while climbing and spinning in air, which was amazing, while three others danced evocatively to "Quiet". I may post more of the songs perfomed to yet.
‘My Mistress With A Monster Is In Love’
Spoken by Puck, Act 3, Scene 2
My mistress with a monster is in love.
Near to her close and consecrated bower,
While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
Were met together to rehearse a play
Intended for great Theseus’ nuptial-day.
The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,
Who Pyramus presented, in their sport
Forsook his scene and enter’d in a brake
When I did him at this advantage take,
An ass’s nole I fixed on his head:
Anon his Thisbe must be answered,
And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
Rising and cawing at the gun’s report,
Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,
So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;
And, at our stamp, here o’er and o’er one falls;
He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong,
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;
For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch.
I led them on in this distracted fear,
And left sweet Pyramus translated there:
When in that moment, so it came to pass,
Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
Tonight I was honored to watch the Esh Circus Arts Student Show. (*waves to RK*) One performer perfectly performed this speech while climbing and spinning in air, which was amazing, while three others danced evocatively to "Quiet". I may post more of the songs perfomed to yet.
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Date: 2023-04-23 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-23 10:32 pm (UTC)Aerial acts with silks are getting a lot of notice. When the girl climbing and sliding on the silks is only 11 years old, the act is pretty attention-getting.
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Date: 2023-04-24 10:17 pm (UTC)Sand that was one of the many many aspects I loved about the show. The performers had a range of sizes and clearly went for powe over slenderness. I was amaze
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Date: 2023-04-24 10:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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