14:54....the time I began writing this piece, my new project for 2009 along with all my other projects for the new year that are bound to crumble...but I completly expect it to so it's kinda okay!
My first post should explain why I am starting this blog and reveal some loose structure behind future posts to come, but the truth is, I was searching on Google for the difference between Satsuma's and Clementines and found a blog explaining such differences (to be honest with you, I still don't know...) and I loved the idea so much I ended up here...
As much as I love and admire the anonymity of the internet, I feel comfortable enough to reveal that my name is Marco and I live in the UK, born in Wales but now live in London. I sit in an office and write blogs when I should be working...but all work and no play makes Marco go crazy!
I'm university educated and secretly believe i'm better than everyone else, although I'm extremly adept and playing the 'common man' so no-one catches on...except my girlfriend maybe, but she's an idiot...
Although this is my first blog, I still feel I should be talking about something that little others know, or at last give some sort of opinion on things as i'm sure you don't want to hear about my life anymore! So i'll give you a quick summary of my 3rd year dissertation for my Theatre Studies and Drama degree (For which I receive an E for...I was NOT happy!):
Most, if not all of Shakespeares plays are derived from the ancient theatre form of Commedia dell'Arte, and, after watching the travelling Italian performers play out the stories, he would return home and work his magic to create the plays we all know and love today. There are even rumours that Shakespeare didn't even write any of the plays, but that's for another debate altogether...
The issue with Commedia dell'Arte is that none of the performance is scripted. A simplistic guideline to the story would have been agreed and then it was up to the actors to improvise their way through to the inevitable conclusions, cramming in as many of their tricks and skills (called lazzi) as they possibly could. The improvisation meant that the troupe could change the performance to suit the local villages and towns to which they performed, mimicking local politicians and well-known figures of the community - it also meant that they would shy away from long monologues and speeches and concentrate more on the physical side of the performance. Shakespeare merely took these shows and stories and converted them to physical written works as we are familiar with today. Still, there can be no denying ole' Bill's way with words and his poetic scrawlings are as important as the stories themselves, so I still think he's a legend...
There, well...that will do for a first post methinks....
Bye!
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