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ceebeegeeI love this role. I really love playing Viola. She's such a sweet character--the monologue when she realizes Sebastian might be alive is just so touching.
He named Sebastian. I my brother know
Yet living in my glass. Even such and so
In favor was my brother and he went
Still in this fashion, color, ornament
For him I imitate. O, if it prove--
Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love!
My favorite scene--which I'm still trying to figure out--is that lyrical, heart-breaking scene between Orsino and Viola in the second act. That scene fascinates me--Viola starts out teasing Orsino with those sly, veiled references to her love for him, and after the song is in a completely different place. There is no line so touching as Viola's plea "Was this not love indeed?" Oh, it breaks my heart--I love that scene.
I wonder about the last scene--Orsino's bombshell to Olivia that "I know about your thing for Cesario" is really quite stunning, and yet neither Viola nor Olivia comment on it. And Orsino who's typically so oblivious--how did he figure this out, especially since this is the first time he's seen Olivia in a while? Someone must've told him--thanks for ratting me out, Feste! I think it was Feste.
I emailed Ben about the revelation in the last scene and also that Orsino doesn't react to Viola's declaration of love for Orsino--he still thinks she's Cesario at that point, as I said "the hoyay is off the charts at this point!" and we chatted back and forth about that, and with Nick the theme of violence. Ben wrote "So that we start with farcical violence; move to Antonio's gallant rescue (defensive violence, insofar as he's not interested in actually hurting anyone, I think); and finally introduce the police state: fierce, threatening, and dangerous." I responded "And in Ben's direction, yet more violence in the last scene when Orsino manhandles Viola (when the bear violates the flower...), which is backed up textually by the violence in what Orsino says '[I'll] tear out...sacrifice the lamb...' and Viola turns into Tammy Wynette."
I really want it to be August 4th.
Tonight is our first Off-Book rehearsal--I am off-book for every scene except a couple of patches in the last one. Of course it will all go right out of my head when I have to do it in rehearsal!
He named Sebastian. I my brother know
Yet living in my glass. Even such and so
In favor was my brother and he went
Still in this fashion, color, ornament
For him I imitate. O, if it prove--
Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love!
My favorite scene--which I'm still trying to figure out--is that lyrical, heart-breaking scene between Orsino and Viola in the second act. That scene fascinates me--Viola starts out teasing Orsino with those sly, veiled references to her love for him, and after the song is in a completely different place. There is no line so touching as Viola's plea "Was this not love indeed?" Oh, it breaks my heart--I love that scene.
I wonder about the last scene--Orsino's bombshell to Olivia that "I know about your thing for Cesario" is really quite stunning, and yet neither Viola nor Olivia comment on it. And Orsino who's typically so oblivious--how did he figure this out, especially since this is the first time he's seen Olivia in a while? Someone must've told him--thanks for ratting me out, Feste! I think it was Feste.
I emailed Ben about the revelation in the last scene and also that Orsino doesn't react to Viola's declaration of love for Orsino--he still thinks she's Cesario at that point, as I said "the hoyay is off the charts at this point!" and we chatted back and forth about that, and with Nick the theme of violence. Ben wrote "So that we start with farcical violence; move to Antonio's gallant rescue (defensive violence, insofar as he's not interested in actually hurting anyone, I think); and finally introduce the police state: fierce, threatening, and dangerous." I responded "And in Ben's direction, yet more violence in the last scene when Orsino manhandles Viola (when the bear violates the flower...), which is backed up textually by the violence in what Orsino says '[I'll] tear out...sacrifice the lamb...' and Viola turns into Tammy Wynette."
I really want it to be August 4th.
Tonight is our first Off-Book rehearsal--I am off-book for every scene except a couple of patches in the last one. Of course it will all go right out of my head when I have to do it in rehearsal!
