m59z85

My daughter, Sarah (7) was watching a show called "Avatar: The Last
Air Bender" and after it was over she started giving me a synopsis
of the episode. The episode included a forbidden love and death and
wanting to be together forever.

I told her that reminded me of a Shakespeare play and I told her the
basic storyline of "Romeo and Juliet." She thought it was a cool
story and she went on and made a book for herself of the Avatar
episode. Sarah doesn't write much yet but she draws pictures and
then narrates the story to me. We have dozens of these books (I
save them all!).

A few days later we were at the bookstore and she brought an Usborne
book to me and asked, "Is this "Romeo and Juliet?" And it was--a
wonderful version telling the story in short chapters and modern
language with wonderful illustrations. We bought it and went home
and read it (and read it again and again). I then told her that
Shakespeare wrote lots of plays and there are movies to rent and she
and her sister (age 5) began chanting "More Shakespeare, More
Shakespeare."

So, we are waiting for the movie with Olivia Hussey to arrive in the
mail tomorrow from Netflix. Sarah ran out to the mailbox today and
was disappointed.

In the meantime we have watched the "Standard Deviants" dvd's
explaining Romeo and Juliet and an intro to Shakespeare. We also
got a Jim Weiss cd of Romeo and Juliet for the car.

And Sandra, I really enjoyed reading your Shakespeare page at your
website.

I think we'll do some McBeth next as they love the witches' "Double,
double, toil and trouble".

And all of this from watching TV!!

Nancy Wooton

On Sep 29, 2006, at 12:25 PM, m59z85 wrote:

> I think we'll do some McBeth next as they love the witches' "Double,
> double, toil and trouble".
>
> And all of this from watching TV!!

Have they seen the film version of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban"? It includes a choir at Hogwart's singing those lines. It's
my favorite of the soundtracks; lots of early music references :-)

Nancy

Sandra Dodd

-=-And Sandra, I really enjoyed reading your Shakespeare page at your
website.-=-

Thanks!
There are two and I fixed them up with photos recently:
http://sandradodd.com/shakespeare
http://sandradodd.com/strew/shakespeare

I should link Jayn's Barbie doll tableaux there.
http://sandradodd.com/barbie
Jayn Coburn set up Barbie dolls in beautiful scenarios, and it's
linked there.


When my kids were little I would play the videotape of West Side
Story , but I would turn it off after a while, after Officer Krupke
or so.

One day I forgot. I came into the living room and Marty and Kirby
were standing in the middle of the room staring at the screen. Maria
was cradling Tony and crying. They were staring and didn't even look
at me. That had never happened before (as far as they knew). I
think they were probably like four and seven or so. I had to explain
that I had been distracting them away from it before, and I was sorry.

I hate the end of Romeo and Juliet. It makes me mad every time. I
like to turn it off when their plan is in good shape. They get
married and things are all better. Tony and Maria get on the bus
and move to Chicago or Albuquerque or somewhere. I like my versions
better.

Sandra

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Kathleen Whitfield

on 9/29/06 1:17 PM, Sandra Dodd at Sandra@... wrote:

>I hate the end of Romeo and Juliet. It makes me mad every time. I
>like to turn it off when their plan is in good shape.

My 8yo also loves the Usborne Romeo and Juliet. She likes my embellishment
because I hate the ending as well. I can't help but editorializing about the
idiocy of Friar Lawrence's plan. She staged the play with some friends and I
was tapped to be the narrator -- on the condition that I would do my
commentary.

We also had great seats to see Damn Yankees! live last week, which my 10yo
and 8yo just loved. Are there any other good "Faust" myth movies?

Kathleen
in SoCal



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Krisula Moyer

The BBC did a few episodes of a cool show called "Shakespear Shorts" where
they take a key scene from one of the plays and work on it as the actors and
director discusss process, language and motivation etc. It's facinating and
it only runs 30 minutes so - very fast paced. Because they only attempt one
scene at a time you get a deeper treatment. We only stopped watching it
after it became clear we'd seen all the episodes at least twice. Wish
they'd do more.

Krisula


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Sandra Dodd

Two listed on Amazon, no images, VHS, unavailable. <g>

If anyone sees these come on DVD in a north American version, please
let me know.
1.


Shakespeare Shorts (VHS Tape)

Currently unavailable
2.


Shakespeare Shorts: Macbeth (VHS Tape)

Currently unavailable



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