Journal 22
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 09:26
I think that the play should be performed in the Representational style, because plays are created to be performed, but if the actors were to interact with the audience, I believe that the author would have put it in the script.
Plus, this play is already so difficult to follow (with Dromio and his master seeming to change who they are so often) that trying to fit in them interacting with the audience would be simply too confusing.
Is there something I'm missing that I am horribly confused?
-Hilary
Not scripted.
I agree that the play is difficult to follow, but don't you think representational would leave it difficult? If the Dromio's were to speak to the audience don't you think it would clear up some confusion and allow the audience to keep the characters apart? Also, Egeon long periods of speech in the beginning could be really boring being rattled off. wouldn't it be better if he told the story of losing his twins to the audience, giving them background?
Megan Baeth-Brison
confusing
I was confused as well. The play still seems really off, and I still don't understand a lot of it. I think that is one of the play's elements though. It sort of keeps the reader/audience off balance. Someone in their blog wrote how the play was short on order, or something like that. But it is true. There seems to be a more fluid plot line, and many of the characters are very unpredictable.
Confusion
This play was a bit confusing. I think it is a prime example that Shakespeare really wrote the play to be seen acted out and not necessarily read alone. Seeing it, instead of reading it probably cleared up much of the confusion to where it wasn't an issue with the people in the Elizabethan time.
Seeing is Believing
I tend to forget that Shakespeare's play were meant to be seen and not read, as I am more of a reader than a theatre-type. I bet that would have cleared up some misunderstandings in The Comedy of Errors though (particularly the first time through, as I had to stop and reread many times!).
-Hilary