And here we are in week two, and here is where the work kicks in. We have actually just got through the basic blocking of the whole play now and today has been the first day where we are back at the beginning doing the whole detail part.
I do still love Shakespeare although he has got my brain a bit boggled this week. I am playing Luce now as well as the Courtesan and Luce is responsible for my bogglement! I want to clarify, that Luce and Nell in this production are separate characters. For those of you that don’t know the play Nell is spoken about by Dromio of Syracuse as a ‘beastly creature’ whose forehead is ‘armed and reverted, making a war against her heir’. In short she is pretty disgusting. But in this production Luce is another servant working in the house of Antipholus of Ephesus. The scene in which she first appears is the famous door scene where Antipholus of Ephesus is trying to get into his house which has been locked against him, Luce refuses to open the door to her rightful master as she believes that he is already inside eating dinner with her mistress and therefore believes that the person knocking is a mad stranger claiming to be her master.
The rhythm in this section I have found quite tricky but after a session with Giles the genius (our Shakespeare man) I began to understand what the bard was doing. I spoke to a friend about this section today as well and she described it to me as an Elizabethan version of a freestyle rap battle which was very helpful with deciding what words to stress. I however will not be rapping the part of Luce though; I think she is more of a country and western girl.
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