What a delightful show! I truly enjoyed seeing this production. It was lighthearted and silly, but that's what I loved about it. I wish we studied more plays like this in our classes. Truly, the only plays we really teach are Greek tragedies and Shakespeare. What's the fun in that? Don't get me wrong - I love those plays, but I'm an English teacher. I truly wonder how the students would react to reading/performing a "silly" play. Perhaps they need to know that drama is FUN! In fact, I may try to squeeze in a "fun" play with my 9th graders before I attempt Romeo and Juliet. I just recently saw Julius Caesar, and this summer I saw a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Both of those shows were nice but emotionally draining. Caesar had NO comic relief whatsoever. Boy, that was tough.
I have never read the novel before, but now I am inspired to do so. I wonder, however, if not having read the book made the play more enjoyable. It created tension for me because I truly did not know what was going to happen next. I also had no expectations about what I thought should be included or how I thought a certain character should be portrayed. Have our students EVER seen a play that they didn't already read? How would this impact their views on drama?
One thing I found especially fascinating was meeting the actors before the show and then seeing them perform - there was quite a transformation in between. I'm not sure how this would benefit students, but I think they'd enjoy it. One thing it might help them to understand is the separation between author and speaker.
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