Come, civil night...

[ceebeegee]

I'm schlepping out to the 'Boke this evening for the audition for the Shakespeare tour-thing at DeBaun. The monologue needs to be <2 minutes, so I decided to do part of the "Gallop apace..." starting with "Come, civil night,/Thou sober-suited matron all in black/And learn me how to lose a winning match..." I wrestled with whether or not to do Helen's speech, starting from "First then--She mothered the beginning of all this wickedness..." and ending with "I, sold once for my body's beauty stand accused, who should for what has been done wear garlands on my head." It feels stronger--the urgency is more clear. But I love the different changes of mood I experience with the Juliet passage; I love going from the overwrought-ness of "and when he shall die,/Take him and cut him out in little stars" to the multi-faceted realization of "O, I have bought the mansion of a love" to the impatience of "So tedious is this day..."

I worked on both of them last night, and really got into the Juliet. I had a hard time falling asleep after that.