#verse plays

[britneyshakespeare]

His virtue was the brainstorm of a dreamer!

He died a fool. And may his fall pull down

his friend and all his century! We shall see

how they get on without me. For one evening,

the world belongs to me still. [...]

King Philip II of Spain, Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller, Act V scene ii. Translation by Robert David MacDonald.

[creatediana]

Hippolytus to Aricia, II.iii of Jean Racine's Phèdre (Phaedra), 1677, translated by Robert Lowell, 1960

[ellenkushner]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhBYMOCE3FU)  

This play, ohhh this play! If you love myth and magic, folklore and ballads, Scottish music, interactive staging & rhymed verse drama, it's worth coming to NYC to see *The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.* It's performed in one of the bars of The McKittrick Hotel, which also boasts Sleep No More--in fact, you get a shot glass of Aberlour when you come in, and can buy more bar drinks at intermission. You sit at your table--don't move!--but an actor may climb up on it at some point. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it (tonight) half so much if Linda Lee & friends hadn't invited me to the American Folklore Society meeting last fall.... Prudencia is a collector of ballads who meets a collector of...souls. But first she attends Scotland's most annoying folklore conference ;) I will say no more for fear of spoilers - but if you wished you could have seen the NY production of HADESTOWN twice, you'll probably want to see PRUDENCIA once. It's a production of the Scottish National Theater, in town until April 23rd. It's very funny, very moving, full of surprises (though Delia guessed one of them!) and live music, most of it traditional.

[britneyshakespeare]

Most elegant. I appreciate the point. A point too fine to use: it breaks. How sad.

Act IV of Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller

[verseofthedead]

Starting a new game of Fallout: New Vegas: This time I’ll focus on the main quest.

2 Hours of wandering the wastes and 91837284 side quests later: god damn it