{"id":1026,"date":"2014-06-05T06:50:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T10:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2014-06-04T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:24:49","slug":"thursday-throwback-titanias-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Throwback – Titania’s Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was twelve years old, I wrote a one-act play based on Shakespeare’s, called A Child View of Shakespeare<\/em>. In it,\u00a0Juliet does not love Romeo and a Pharaoh – Cleopatra – is disinterested by her suitors. Viola is writing a tell-all book about her boss, and there is the obligatory identical twin quiproquo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

To my young ears, Shakespeare’s iambic pentametre sounded just as rhythmic and as rhyme-y as Dr. Seuss, so that’s what the play sounds like. Basically,\u00a0A Child View of Shakespeare\u00a0<\/em>is iconic characters\u00a0stirred up in Macbeth\u2019s witches\u2019 pot to deliciously silly results.<\/p>\n

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Fast forward two decades (ahem) later, when CBC Writes launched its Shakespeare Selfie Challenge<\/a> to celebrate the playwright’s 450th birthday,\u00a0asking Canadians to\u00a0take a Shakespearean character, situate him or her in a present-day scenario, and write a new soliloquy or monologue (an old-timey selfie) for that character.<\/p>\n

So, I dug through\u00a0A Child’s View of Shakespeare<\/em> and pulled out a passage to submit to the challenge. I recycled my twelve-year-old self’s banquet-themed monologue and breathed new life into it through Queen of the Fairies Titania’s voice. What if she were the host of a modern-day cooking show?<\/p>\n

Click here to read Titania’s Shakespeare Selfie<\/a>\u00a0– do you see the Shakespearian and Seussian influence?<\/p>\n

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