Today, Maren chose theater.
OK, we cheated a little. She's still suffering greatly from her cold and will most likely miss a second day of band class, so we wanted to do something that she could do while chilling on the couch. Not literally chilling. I'm not that cruel of a taskmaster.
At first she chose textile arts. What can you do in textile arts while huddled up in blankets? Not much. I suppose I could have given her a crochet lesson or we could have looked up images of textile arts on the internet, or we could have decided that the simple fact that she is wrapped in textile design was enough to suffice. But we decided to try again anyway and drew THEATER!!
We recently read Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories version of "The Tempest," so we decided to take a look at some video clips of the play.
We watched several interpretations, including one done by a bunch of high school kids acting out their simplified version of Act 1 Scene 1, and a "Shakespeare in a Minute" animation, the former utilizing the taking of God's name in vain too frequently and the latter being pretty lame.
We also watched two or three clips of the play being performed on various stages, and a clip of the film version that came out late last year. I don't know. It looks pretty interesting to me. I'll have to see if it's available on Netflix Instant.....
Nope. Not even out on DVD yet and will come out first in BlueRay. DVD release date unknown. *sigh*
There IS a BBC version of "The Tempest" available on InstantPlay, but I have a hunch it may need some previewing.
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