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cincinnatiburgoo

I can’t stop laughing at this 🤣😂🤣

neil-gaiman

It's the capital letter shouting that I love so much.

depsidase

neil-gaiman

By the wonderful @myjetpack

beeftea78-deactivated20200113

oh! I have to tell you guys a great story one of my professors told me. So he has a friend who is involved in these Shakespeare outreach programs where they try to bring Shakespeare and live theatre to poor and underprivileged groups and teach them about English literature and performing arts and such. On one of their tours they stopped at a young offenders institute for women and they put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet for a group of 16-17 year old girls. It was all going really well and the girls were enjoying and laughing through the first half - because really, the first half is pretty much a comedy - but as the play went on, things started to get quiet. Real quiet. Then it got up to the suicide scene and mutterings broke out and all the girls were nudging each other and looking distressed, and as this teacher observed them, he realised - they didn’t know how the play ended. These girls had never been exposed to the story of Romeo and Juliet before, something which he thought was impossible given how ubiquitous it is in our culture. I mean, the prologue even gives the ending away, but of course it doesn’t specify exactly how the whole “take their life” thing goes down, so these poor girls had no idea what to expect and were sitting there clinging to hope that Romeo would maybe sit down for a damn minute instead of murdering Paris and chugging poison - but BAM he died and they all cried out - and then Juliet WOKE UP and they SCREAMED and by the end of the play they were so upset that a brawl nearly broke out, and that’s the story of how Shakespeare nearly started a riot at a juvenile detention centre

dukeofbookingham-deactivated202

Apparently something similar happened during a production of Much Ado at Rikers Island because a bunch of inmates wanted to beat the shit out of Claudio, which is more than fair tbh

let-the-awful-song-be-heard

honestly Shakespeare would be so pleased to know his plays were nearly starting brawls centuries into the future

theabigailthorn

I played Claudio once and I fully support this

bemusedlybespectacled

“When we took Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” into a maximum security woman’s prison on the West Side…there’s a scene there where a young woman is told by a very powerful official that “If you sleep with me, I will pardon your brother. And if you don’t sleep with me, I’ll execute him.” And he leaves the stage. And this character, Isabel, turned out to the audience and said: “To whom should I complain?” And a woman in the audience shouted: “The Police!” And then she looked right at that woman and said: “If I did relate this, who would believe me?” And the woman answered back, “No one, girl.” And it was astonishing because not only was it an amazing sense of connection between the audience and the actress, but you also realized that this was a kind of an historical lesson in theater reception. That’s what must have happened at The Globe. These soliloquies were not simply monologues that people spoke, they were call and response to the audience. And you realized that vibrancy, that that sense of connectedness is not only what makes theater great in prisons, it’s what makes theater great, period.”

Oskar Eustis

darklynoon-deactivated20170407

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

dduane

…Older. :)

myjetpack

My cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian books.

p.s. my latest book cartoons collection is Revenge of the Librarians: tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

neil-gaiman

I feel seen. And mocked. And understood.

colleendoran

NEIL GAIMAN'S CHIVALRY WINS THE EISNER AWARD

Very happy to announce that NEIL GAIMAN'S CHIVALRY won the Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium at last night's ceremony at San Diego Comic Con. Presenter was Batman producer Michael Uslan.

We're incredibly grateful and pleased, and no one is more surprised than I am.

This book is for all ages, it is gentle, it is a fairy story, it is about an old lady and a knight in shining armor, and the kind of King Arthur who lives in my dreams and not in blockbuster movies, and I am so grateful it has been so well-received.

I waited decades for this.

I cannot thank you all enough.

Neil Gaiman's Chivalry is based on an original short story by Neil Gaiman. Adapted and illustrated by me. Lettering by Todd Klein and me. Published by Dark Horse Comics. Editor Daniel Chabon.

Photo courtesy Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award winner Scott Dunbier.

colleendoran

ICYMI, here is a very nice interview with me and Neil Gaiman at the Guardian UK. about our work on CHIVALRY from Dark Horse Comics.

funnytwittertweets

introvertedx10

Find me in 6 months when I learn this again, because I'm also a dumb bitch

neil-gaiman

From the distant past. Buttons, and what a good thing they are and why they aren't scary at all not even a little bit, really, trust me on this.

mitashade

A Deckerstar story. Re-posting works in chronological order (sorta). TBC. <3

mitashade

No song inspiration for this one, just my love and appreciation for this fantastic show, the cast and crew, and the fans. You’re all amazing.

mitashade

I don’t think I ever did upload my Inktober/Lucitober 2019 sketchbook flip-through. This was a grievous oversight. T_T <3

alessiajontrunfio

Soooooo, this is another of my headcanons: I’ve imagined that there was a full moon in the very first week of school of Remus. So he’s just disappeared after the Sorting Ceremony. Once the full Moon passed, he finally was able to attend his classes and this is the first time he met and spoke “ properly” with Sirius! - - - - it took me really A LOT to finish it!I’m so overwhelmed with work that I couldn’t work on it constantly! sigh!