#menaechmi

[garland-on-thy-brow]

[The Menaechmi trans. Erich Segal]

OR as I like to call it Caelius/Cicero porn.

[toneel-sophia-aeterna]

Have you ever wanted to see a real Roman play, performed exactly as it has 2000 years ago? Unfortunately, we can't offer you that. What we can offer is a modern interpretation of an ancient play! That's cool too, right?

The Menaechmi is a play by Titus Maccius Plautus, one of the greatest comedie writers of his time. The story centers around the twin brothers Menaechmus and Menaechmus, who got separated at a young age and don't know of each others existence. But when they end up in the same place as adults, no one can tell them apart. Which one had given his wife's dress to a prostitute? Which one had then stolen that bracelet? And are we sending the right one to the madhouse?

Translated, organised, and played by Classic students, this modern adaptation aims to perserve the spirit of the original, while still being hilariously funny! No prior knowledge of Plautus, Roman theatre, or even Latin is needed: the show will be performed in Dutch, the jokes will be funny, and that timeless storyline is timeless for a reason!

Only available for two days, three shows, on Friday June 20th and Saturday June 21st, at Theater Ins Blau in Leiden, The Netherlands! Are you somebody who lives nearby and would like to come see us bring Plautus back to the stage, or do you know a Dutch person who might be interested? Get more information and order your tickets via:

We hope to see you at the show!

[underratedalpaca]

We're doing Plautus' comedy "Menaechmi" in my Latin class, and we will probably do a rappresentation of it, and, I'm in charge of the changes in the script, (to make it more 2024-ish) and I'm so happyyyyyy

[local-queer-classicist]

Why does Plautus taunt me with his casual vocabulary that wasn’t in my textbook and abnormal grammatical constructions that weren’t covered in my textbook and untranslatable jokes that I wasn’t prepared for by my textbook

[prideandparchment]

01.11.2023.

18/100 days of productivity

Today was very productive day. Maybe, because of the little change staying at my dad's means. Also, they were out visiting cemetery almost all day, so I was alone.

finished the Menaechmi by Plautus

wrote one of my papers due after the break

outlined the other paper

started reading The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd for uni

cooked lunch

had a meeting for a campaign I'm handling the communication of

[skysyzygy]

I read Plautus’ Menaechmi for a class and this is an incredibly cold take but it’s the funniest play I’ve ever read

The best part is my professors were like “We HIGHLY encourage you to read this aloud with your friends :)” and so we did and it was five of us cackling trying not to lose it for two hours

[24studying]

Plautus would probably be that one fandom author who writes crack fics that everyone has read at one point

[underratedalpaca]

My sister (who goes to the same school I go to) was asked by her teacher to read Plauto's Menaechmi.

I gave her my copy of the script fro the show from last year.

She's reading it aloud, and sometimes I join her for the lines I remember (most of them, I was the stage director and I had to suggest to basically every actor).

She wants to kill me, I think, but I'm having fun