Lord, what fools these playwrights be
In my Drama I class at citrus high school I was taught that the key to understanding and being a character was motivation. What made the character act like he did? After you know that, the rest of the acting is based on that motivation.
I would assume the same about writing a character. You write someone into a play to revolve around their one "job" whether it be passing on a letter, dying in some way, whatever.
With that in mind, can one person alive tell me WHY the Faerie king in A Midsummer Night's Dream decided to play Cupid with some mortals??
He showed no interest in humans before he instructed Puck to administer the potions. If it was just a random thing, why did King get mad when Puck confused the people?
And what was with the little Changeling boy at the beginning? He was supposed to be King's motivation but after that first scene with him and the Queen, Changeling boy was never heard from again.
I suppose King had Puck play with the Queen's love for revenge because he wanted the Changeling Boy. But if that was his true motivation, why didn't he make the queen fall in love with him so he could get something out of her?
Puck is really the only person with any motivation and that's just because he revolves around one simple pleasure: Playing tricks on people and watching the fun.
The only reason for having the faerie realm play any part in this production was so the human lovers' minds would change and all would be happy. But surely King didn't know that. He had to have had some reason of his own for doing things. Or he should have just been left out of the play altogether, that would have made more sense.
Puck was fooling around with the love potions and this is what we got of it. We don't even need the stupid king and his unmotivated self.
I must say I'm quite disappointed in William's writing here. He has the language right but the story makes absolutely no sense. He must have burned out after Much Ado About Nothing. I'm not even sure the writing is what's good even in that one. It could be just Brannagh's genius making Will look good.
I would assume the same about writing a character. You write someone into a play to revolve around their one "job" whether it be passing on a letter, dying in some way, whatever.
With that in mind, can one person alive tell me WHY the Faerie king in A Midsummer Night's Dream decided to play Cupid with some mortals??
He showed no interest in humans before he instructed Puck to administer the potions. If it was just a random thing, why did King get mad when Puck confused the people?
And what was with the little Changeling boy at the beginning? He was supposed to be King's motivation but after that first scene with him and the Queen, Changeling boy was never heard from again.
I suppose King had Puck play with the Queen's love for revenge because he wanted the Changeling Boy. But if that was his true motivation, why didn't he make the queen fall in love with him so he could get something out of her?
Puck is really the only person with any motivation and that's just because he revolves around one simple pleasure: Playing tricks on people and watching the fun.
The only reason for having the faerie realm play any part in this production was so the human lovers' minds would change and all would be happy. But surely King didn't know that. He had to have had some reason of his own for doing things. Or he should have just been left out of the play altogether, that would have made more sense.
Puck was fooling around with the love potions and this is what we got of it. We don't even need the stupid king and his unmotivated self.
I must say I'm quite disappointed in William's writing here. He has the language right but the story makes absolutely no sense. He must have burned out after Much Ado About Nothing. I'm not even sure the writing is what's good even in that one. It could be just Brannagh's genius making Will look good.
posted by Mabreg at 11:23 AM
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