ELICA MIWA

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  • A True Devoted Pilgrim [Shakespeare For You]

    A True Devoted Pilgrim [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
    To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps; 
    Much less shall she that hath Love’s wings to fly, 

    — Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-7

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Julia has told her maid Lucetta that she is going to visit her love Proteus in Milan.  Lucetta told her the road is long and winding.  And Julia says…

    I would play this as a teacher.  Teach Lucetta what a true pilgrim is like, and with that example, her travel should be much easier.

    I will not forget she compares herself as a pilgrim, which means she deificate Proteus.  

    Here again, we see Shakespeare’s favorite reference of Love and wings.  Also, we notice the example of “pilgrim”, like in Romeo and Juliet.

  • Love, Lend Me Wings [Shakespeare For You]

    Love, Lend Me Wings [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift. 

    As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift.

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-6

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Love, when it is referred with capital L, it works like a name of a person.  Mr or Ms Love has wings and s/he is blind.

    I like Proteus using the repetition of lend as “lend me”, as you “have lent me”.

    I would play the line as if I ask to lend me more money (, which I have never!).

  • I To Myself Am Dearer Than A Friend [Shakespeare For You]

    I To Myself Am Dearer Than A Friend [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 I to myself am dearer than a friend.

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-6

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Finally, Proteus comes to make up his mind.

    In this video, I played as “what the h○〇〇.”

    But you may feel guilt in saying this.

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  • I Needs Must Myself [Shakespeare For You]

    I Needs Must Myself [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭Julia I lose, and Valentine I lose; 
    If I keep them, I needs must lose myself.

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-6

    [ACTING TIPS]

    When you have to choose something or somebody, you would first think what the merit is, then you must think what the demerit is on each choice.  

    Not only in Shakespeare, but in any character playing, I try to grab a new fresh  moment of discovery with the audience, rather than already knowing the consequences and tell the audience.

  • To Wrong My Friend [Shakespeare For You]

    To Wrong My Friend [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭To leave my Julia shall I be forsworn; 
    To love fair Silvia shall I be forsworn; 
    To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn.

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-6

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Frustration.  But do not play frustration.  Visualise what would happen When you leave Julia.  Visualise what would happen when you love Sylvia.  And visualise what would happen when you wrong your best friend.  

    Bring your steaks higher and higher.  Then you will naturally feel frustrated.

  • Like A Waxen Image ‘Gainst A Fire [Shakespeare For You]

    Like A Waxen Image ‘Gainst A Fire [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭She is fair; and so is Julia that I love — 
    That I did love, for now my love is thawed, 
    Which like a waxen image ‘giants a fire 
    Bears no impression of the thing it was.

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-4

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Enjoy the moment he realizes his heart from line 1 to line 2.

    Viola refers about “women’s waxen heart” in The Twelfth Night.  

    I also notice he says “the thing”, after he said “a newer object” just before.  He take woman as objects!!  How do you act this personality?

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  • Reasonless to Reason Thus [Shakespeare For You]

    Reasonless to Reason Thus [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭Even as one heat another heat expels, 
    Or as one nail by strength drives out another, 
    So the remembrance of my former love 
    Is by a newer object quite forgotten. 
    Is it mine eye, or Valentine’s praise, 
    Her true perfection, or my false transgression 
    That makes me reasonless to reason thus?

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-4

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Proteus feels his love toward Julia is pushed away by some strong practical force. 

    Play it with just feeling something is changing.

    Play it with already with gilt, feeling he will betray his friend.

    Enjoy as an actor the playful “true” and “false”, “perfection” and “transgression”, “reasonless” and “reason thus”.  Very Shakespeare.

    I am fascinated by his word choice of “a newer object” which means Silvia.  Why does he have to say that?

  • Ay, and we are betrothed [Shakespeare For You]

    Ay, and we are betrothed [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭Ay, and we are betrothed; nay more, our marriage hour,
    With all the cunning manner of our flight,
    Determined of:  how I must climb her window,
    The ladder made of cords, and all the means
    Plotted and ‘greed on for my happiness.

    — Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-4

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Proteus has asked Valentine whether Sylvia loves him.  He is so excited!  Share the top secret to your best friend, trusting he is for you.  Proteus, never show your jealousy when listening this.

    Flight from the window, climbing up her window with the ladder, because her parents do not approve their love.  Yes, very Romeo and Juliet.
    Also, telling the secret of love-flight reminds me of Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

  • Kameido Shrine with Wisteria, and “Too Low A Mistress” [Shakespeare For You]

    Kameido Shrine with Wisteria, and “Too Low A Mistress” [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Sylvia:  Too low a mistress for so high a servant.
    Proteus:  Not so, sweet lady, but too mean a servant
    　　　　 To have a look of such a worthy mistress.

    — Sylvia & Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-4

    [ACTING TIPS]

    This is the first ever conversation between Sylvia and Proteus.  Sylvia, right after hearing what a splendid gentleman he is, from Valentine.  So she is very interested in him.  Her father says he is worth her husband, and she looks at him as a potential future husband.  

    On the other hand, Proteus has made a vow to his lady Julia in Verona.  He can be struck with Sylvia’s sophisticated manners and beauty, but he then more strongly tell himself that he would not be moved.  That makes the play more interesting.

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  • Kameido Shrine with Wisteria, and With Good Grace To Grace A Gentleman [Shakespeare For You]

    Kameido Shrine with Wisteria, and With Good Grace To Grace A Gentleman [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 His years but young, but his experience old;  
    His head and unmellowed, but his judgement ripe; 
    And in a word, for far behind his worth 
    Comes all the praises that I now bestow, 
    He is complete in feature and in mind, 
    With all good grace to grace a gentleman.

    — Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-4

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Valentine is talking to Sylvia about his best friend Proteus who has just arrived at Milan.  His excitement is the key of the coming action (that Sylvia falls in love with Proteus).

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