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While Zero Mostel’s physical humor in the role of Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum (1966) had them howling with laughter, the students agreed that the gratuitous objectification of women in the movie was more in the mode of 1960’s Playboy than could be found in the original Plautus.
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They agreed that some of the original jokes would not be funny to a modern audience, especially those regarding gender identity. The students this Spring have been reading secondary sources on social issues prevalent in Plautus’ day – social status, slavery, gender, human trafficking, and aristocratic industria. And lest you think this too far-fetched, this student performance tied for First Place in the 2012 Gustavus Festival of Dionysus! The script was dynamite, as were the student performances.) (See “Past Performances” page in this blog for photos of my past students’ interpretations of Plautus, the most recent a staging replete with zombies in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
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PLAUTUS MENAECHMI SCRIPT HOW TO
The primary consideration – How to stage the play? What would the time period be? And costumes? Diction? performance of Plautus’ “Rudens” last Saturday. Students had read Plautus’ “Menaechmi” in English translation, and they brought to class their notes from watching the Wash.