Today I started Snow in Midsummer. At first I was excited for this play, but once I started reading, it lost a lot of interest. First if all, nothing really happens. Dou E gets sold by her father to Mistress Cai, which is strange because at first the father Dou didn't want to sell his daughter and he even started crying over her, then whe he sees that Cai will forgive him of all his debts, he's happy and thanks her! Then he tells Cai to beat the daughter if she deserves it. And! Dou E is taken as a bride when she's like 7. I know hey got married very young, but that's pre pubescent young.
Another thing is that the play doesn't really have scene markers, it has people enter and say who they are even if they've already been introduced, and those kind of act as the beginning and end of scenes. And these intros were so formal, like every time Ms. Cai comes on stage she says "I am Mistress Cai." was that like a major convention of the time? Like all performers would repeatedly remind the audience who they were? Or did actual people introduce themselves like that, repeatedly?
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So today, we had basically one giant fundraising meeting. We discussed the breakfast and the madness type idea. Unfortunately I feel like we didn't actually decide on anything, we just talked a lot. I'm excited for the madness-type idea; but a major concern would be that the show wouldn't be interesting, though it would be a great time for us to try all our crazy ideas and practice producing. Despite that, I have mixed feelings if John and I can even make it happen. Besides fundraising we started our medieval theatre lesson, and the whole switching groups thing. I definitely feel like I would have benefited from that lesson if I wasn't slightly out of it today. I remember doing something similar to that freshman year and it helped a lot then.
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