especially for 4-6th graders?
Midsummer's Night's Dream? It's fairly light but might be too obscure.
And what's the fun in becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Connie Neil - Oct 24, 2006 10:38:42 am PDT #8568 of 10000
brillig
Sean K - Oct 24, 2006 10:39:03 am PDT #8569 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
She insisted on starting freshmen off with Julius Ceasar. SNOOOORE.
BAH! Julius Ceasar is one of my favorites! Cassius deflating the myth of Ceasar with his story of their swim across the Tiber. The poor, insistent Plebecite coming so close to giving Ceasar the warning note.
"Friends, Romans, coutrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Ceasar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
"If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made."
Sean K - Oct 24, 2006 10:40:12 am PDT #8570 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Midsummer's Night's Dream? It's fairly light but might be too obscure.
Puck is fun, and so are the Rude Mechanicals.
Polter-Cow - Oct 24, 2006 10:44:05 am PDT #8571 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
She insisted on starting freshmen off with Julius Ceasar. SNOOOORE.
But it's fun to point out the glaring anachronisms!
"You mean they had giant clocks in ancient Rome?"
"They sure did!"
Cashmere - Oct 24, 2006 10:47:09 am PDT #8572 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I agree with Midsummer Night's Dream as a good starter for that age.
Laga - Oct 24, 2006 10:48:42 am PDT #8573 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Everybody loves a guy in a donkey head
Jessica - Oct 24, 2006 10:50:29 am PDT #8574 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I couldn't stand Dream when we read it in 7th grade, and I pretty much still can't. I'm not a huge fan of the comedies in general -- I just don't think they're funny. The comedic bits in the tragedies and history plays are much funnier.
Scrappy - Oct 24, 2006 10:51:47 am PDT #8575 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The comedies play funnier than they read.
Amy - Oct 24, 2006 10:52:52 am PDT #8576 of 10000
Because books.
From the sublime (Shakespeare) to the ridiculous (remakes) -- the remake of Psycho is on SciFi and it is beyond pointless. It really is the same exact movie, shot for shot. What the hell? Why bother?
Jessica - Oct 24, 2006 10:54:31 am PDT #8577 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The comedies play funnier than they read.
Eh, some of them. I've never seen a Dream onstage I've liked either.
My issue is the same one I have with most modern comedies -- 99% of the time, all the mistaken identity confusion could be solved by one simple conversation that the characters go to extreme lengths to avoid having. It's tiresome after the umpteenth identical plot.