Word: aegeon
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...Rebecca cannot quite bring herself to embrace Aegeon, her long-lost husband, in the form of Dustin Barrera, 10. No matter--the teacher is impressed. Did anyone help her rehearse the lines? he asks. The diminutive citizens of Ephesus erupt in laughter. It's an inside joke: as the teacher well knows, none of his actors come from English-speaking homes...
...bouncing off the classroom walls. Esquith's Shakespeare goes down like a strawberry milk shake, as textual analysis is interspersed with anecdotes ("Richard Burton once peed in his armor, and the tinkle made the other actors giggle!"). Students without speaking parts play music that would make old Will squirm: Aegeon's plea for a stay of execution is accompanied by the Beatles' Help!, and the pursuit of a portly servant is enlivened with Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls. An overhead video shows the screaming crowds in Godzilla as the actors chase Antipholus around the classroom. "Shakespeare's fun," Esquith says...
...Aegeon, a Merchant of Syracuse, Henry Hadfield...
Antipholus, of Ephesus, Antipholus, of Syracuse, Stanley Drewitt, Dallas Anderson, Twin brothers and sons to Aegeon and Aemelia...
Angelo, a goldsmith, Robert S. PigottBalthazar, a merchant, R.H. SmileyPinch, a schoolmaster, B.A. FieldOfficer, Frank McEnteeLuce, a servant, H. GastonAemilia, wife to Aegeon, an abbess of Ephesus, Millicent McLaughlinAdriana, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus, Edith Wynne MatthisonLuciana, her sister, Emily TaylorDiana, Dorothy Mahome
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