Word: trollius
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...Quintet. For Shakespeare fans, though, the choice is even tougher, as this weekend and the next will see four different productions of the Bard's work going up around campus. The upcoming shows offer perspectives ranging from a minimalist treatment of Romeo and Juliet to an elaborate staging of Trollius and Cressida as a post-apocalyptic desert rave. "I can't think of a more different set of productions than the four that will be going up in the next two weeks," said director Josh Edelman '00, whose version of Twelfth Night is set in the Beat and Jazz...
...most part, though, the directors' choices to do Shakespeare need no explanation beyond the excellence of the plays. "Why do many Shakespeares go up? [Because] he's a damn good playwright," said David Corlette '96, one of the designers of Trollius and Cressida's rave-style lighting. Director Martijn Hostetler '00 agreed, saying "I think people choose do to Shakespeare because he's a terrific writer. Many times during our rehearsal process we'll read over a certain passage a couple of times, and marvel at how wonderfully complex and expressive...
...Martijn Hosterler's Trollius and Cressida is by far the most ambitious of the productions that will go up in the next week. Hostetler was tired of seeing Shakespeare's work spoiled by stuffy productions. "I'd seen too many Shakespeare plays treating the text in this academic and really esoteric fashion that really inhibited the audience's experience," he said. He decided that Trollius deserved something entirely different. His concept is to set the text within a post-apocalyptic desert rave, an environment that he feels will underscore the pomp and vanity of many of the characters. For Hostetler...
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