http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/texts/gerry-mulgrew-reads-follys-sermon-and-a-diary-of-the-rehearsal-period/ Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:28:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.6 http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/texts/gerry-mulgrew-reads-follys-sermon-and-a-diary-of-the-rehearsal-period/#comment-2531 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:29:50 +0000 http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/?p=200#comment-2531 Agit-prop sounds good to me! I’m enjoying all this talk from afar. Thank you all….

]]> http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/texts/gerry-mulgrew-reads-follys-sermon-and-a-diary-of-the-rehearsal-period/#comment-1329 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:18:13 +0000 http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/?p=200#comment-1329 And that’s exactly the kind of 1980s political street theatre that Tam Dean Burn said this play reminded of when we were rehearsing in January.

]]> http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/texts/gerry-mulgrew-reads-follys-sermon-and-a-diary-of-the-rehearsal-period/#comment-1285 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:02:19 +0000 http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/?p=200#comment-1285 Probably because such questions of form/genre don’t get much scholarly attention. But the “well made play” of the 20th century was already breaking up with the agit prop types even though “didactic” was a negative term. And the morality plays are certainly didactic and make little attempt at anything called realism. They’re talk, talk, talk, around a loose story/narrative. That’s where Shakespeare got his soliloquy practice, I imagine.

]]> http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/texts/gerry-mulgrew-reads-follys-sermon-and-a-diary-of-the-rehearsal-period/#comment-1006 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:37:59 +0000 http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/?p=200#comment-1006 That’s a very useful corrective, Joanne, and one I think that’s particularly hard for the ‘modern’ theatrical mind to understand.

]]> http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/texts/gerry-mulgrew-reads-follys-sermon-and-a-diary-of-the-rehearsal-period/#comment-895 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 04:01:30 +0000 http://www.stagingthescottishcourt.org/?p=200#comment-895 The “climax of the play” is a term that only entered drama criticism at the turn of the 19th/20th century. Pre-Shax. plays don’t have climaxes. They develop along the lines of formal rhetoric, as demonstrated by the Latin/Terence texts. This is a long play with a break for lunch/toilets. The second half ends with laughter when, one would think, the audience goes off for supper and talk about the performance.

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