ELICA MIWA

Tag: acting tips

  • If There Be No Great Love In The Beginning [Shakespeare For You]

    If There Be No Great Love In The Beginning [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another; I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

    — Slender, The Merry Wives of Windsor 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Have a try to persuade someone that, even  without love,  marriage can be still a good thing.  But Slender misuse a word, when he has to use “increase”, but “decrease”.  What kind of person would do that?

  • Too Much Of A Good Thing [Shakespeare For You]

    Too Much Of A Good Thing [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?

    — Rosalind, As You Like It 4-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Rosalind, as a boy, wants her loved one to see an honest reality of a girl, for he (Orlando) idealises his love.  “Desire too much” leads to greed which is one of  the Seven Deadly Sins.  Let her play a playful wanton boy who allures an adult man into some mischiefs.  It’s important that in Shakespearean time, no woman wore trousers.  Rosalind must be feeling so free in her outfit now.

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  • Mend Your Speech [Shakespeare For You]

    Mend Your Speech [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes.

    — King Lear, King Lear 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    You may act as a strict angry father, threatening his daughter.  You may act as a tender kind father, giving a life-hack tip to his daughter.  Try many things.  Never let the fixed prototype of “King Lear” stop you acting freely.

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  • For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews [Shakespeare For You]

    For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews,
    Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
    Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
    Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. 

    — Proteus, The Two Gentlemen in Verona, 3-2

    Shakespeare loves music.  The idea that music moves harden hearts appears repeatedly in many comedies of his.

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Proteus is talking to a man who is trying to attract a lady but she is not interested in him.  Proteus tells him to use music, for it will soften the hardest of the hardest.  But secretly, Proteus himself has fallen in love with the same lady.  He has a plot.  Thus, Proteus may act like a very tactful salesman.

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