#dramablr

[stainlesssteellocust]

Has anybody got a link to that post that came up with Much Ado! About Nothing, which reimagined the play as being set in the Noughties alt-rock/pop-punk scene and instead of the guys having just come back from a war they've just come back from Warped Tour

Y'know the one, one of the girls is modelled after Joan Jett and Hero's disgrace is played to invoke the way everyone kept getting mad about Hayley Williams when fucking. Lostprophets were in play

[divlraba]

Wang Xingyue and Wu Jinyan as Su Guo Gong and A’Li in THE DOUBLE.

[clio-just-clio]

@detectivehole reinforces traditional gender roles by drinking his coffee black. seriously, who does that except cis guys who think they’re “sigma males”?

[thestudyofdrama]

Top Seven: Websites

I’ve scoured the internet high and low for some fantastic websites you can spend time on, without feeling like you are missing out on theater stuff during the pandemic.

1. For Podcasts...Broadway Podcast Network

So. Many. Podcasts! That focus specifically on theater, Broadway, and the West End! Did you know that Tim Rice, Donna McKechnie, and Kerry Butler all have podcasts? Listen to them here, along with podcasts on backstage happenings, show-based series, and even some Dungeons and Dragons played by thespians!

2. For Streaming Shakespeare...Globe Player

I am personally having a war with myself to switch from Netflix and Hulu over to subscribing to the Globe’s streaming service. Not only do they have shows in English, but in performed in other languages too! Lithuanian productions of Hamlet with subtitles, a South Korean production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and one of my favorites, Twelfth Night with Stephen Fry as Malvolio and Mark Rylance as Olivia!

3. For Book Box Subscriptions...Dramatists Play Service Book Club

I, again, personally have not used this service. It’s a quarterly (and somewhat pricey) book subscription box, at $34.99 for a box of  seven plays delivered four times a year. I’m not someone who has book box subscriptions, but if I ever become one, it would absolutely be this one.

4. For Brushing Up on Your Shakespeare (Scansion)...Precanned Shakespeare

Are you performing Shakespeare soon and haven’t the faintest idea on how to score your lines? Thank goodness for Precanned Shakespeare! This site, presents each play and sonnet by Shakespeare with each line of verse scanned with syllable notes, indicating where the emphasis in lines and words belongs.

5. For Reading Plays Online...Scribd

If you subscribe to any reading-focused website, it should be Scribd. There are so many nonfiction, fiction, and audiobooks here for your enjoyment. Know what else they have, at the price of $9.99 month for access to everything? Hundreds of plays and musical theater books.

6. For Finding DVDs and CDs of International Shows...eBay

I’ve found a million different cast albums for Wicked, Elisabeth, Tanz der Vampire, and more, that you can’t find on Amazon. There is far more memorabilia from various productions than on Amazon.

7. For Finding DVDs and CDs and Sheet Music and More of International Shows...Sound of Music-Shop

Goodness I love this website. I can’t find sheet music for Die Päpstin anywhere else but here! You can use their advance search to filter shows by country, which streamlines your quest for more international musicals even quicker!

[thewolfofthestars]

Fun cool new idea for a Shakespeare production: have all the actors learn their parts and practice their lines, enough to be ready to give a performance, and then drop it and move on to other plays. After 5 years have passed, bring the cast together again to perform it from memory

[sturm-und-drang-official]

Wer sagte nochmal dass klassische Literatur nicht relatable ist

[drama-studies]

|1.10.2018| finding new monologues for movement class means rereading some of my favorites 📚

[pav-lova]

anyone got any exercises to separate the character from the actor?

i’m directing a show with some really traumatic content and i don’t want the characters to stick around with the actors post their rehearsals. i’m fairly sure i’ve done some exercises in this vein before, i just can’t remember them