Here are some notes on the scansion lecture I gave today before I went on to describe my director’s vision of the upcoming production of Twelfth Night: Act 1. It’s a play about things going topsy turvy, but the crux of the first act is the formation of a salient love triangle and a more subtle “love” triangle (more of a relations-dependency triangle). That’s basically what Act 1 serves to accomplish in the context of the play, and that’s the main thing to try to convey no matter how crazy the interpretation might become. (It’s also the main idea to fall back to, when you’re uncertain.)

Being an open-ended run, we’re also going to try myriad variations once the season starts - both fun stuff for kicks, such as having an experimental show where Toby and/or Andrew are actually physically drunk in RL (remember - hand-eye coordination isn’t totally necessary for a SL play!) and also practical ones, such as variations in cast. Each show will be different, and possibly insightfully enlightening if not entertaining.

Also, here is my “marked up” (and annotated!) version of Twelfth Night Act 1. (1.54 MB!)

Tags: analysis, interpretation, love triangles, scansion