A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
Some more play page updates for you today! I was surprised by relatively how many comics I’ve actually drawn about Cymbeline, and was also surprised by how few comics I’ve drawn about Comedy. The number of Edward III comics, meanwhile was exactly what I expected.
HI YES, I’m still working on A Stick Figure Midsummer Night’s Dream, but I keep getting interrupted by things and I’m now behind in everything and kinda stressed out, so here’s another filler comic from my visit to the Stratford Festival!
BUT THE CLOTHES
If you're not familiar with The Comedy of Errors, you need to know that it involves not one but two sets of identical twins. So... four separate twins.
Four twins. But only two names.
Don't get me started on how each twin ends up wearing the EXACT SAME OUTFIT as their twin, despite having been separated geographically for at least two decades. I can't even begin to figure that one out.
It's that time of year again... The Stratford Festival's opening is just around the corner and it's time to take a look at their playbill for the season. Here we go!
First up we have a classic musical that needs no introduction.
Then some Shakespeare! This production of The Tempest has a female Prospero, so... ignore the beard.
Then it's everybody's favorite sci-fi/comedy/horror rock musical!
Then a stage adaptation of a classic book.
The following is possibly the production I'm most excited about. By all accounts this is going to be an extremely cinematic and visually stunning production of an underrated Shakespeare play.
Let's lighten things up with some Oscar Wilde. No, not the one with the handbag. It's the one with all the letters.
I knew nothing about the following Italian play, which is getting a new translation at Stratford this season. It seems to be half rollicking riotous comedy and half cynical dark comedy. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.
This season's production of Julius Caesar features some great gender-neutral casting, with Caesar and Cassius, among others, being played by female actors. Very excited about this.
DISCLAIMER. The following two plays are NEW plays, which means I don't have any idea what they will actually be like. What I do know, though, is the source material they are based upon. And so I present....
...and, with a similarly literary bent, we have...
One more Shakespeare! This one looks like it's going to be quite the production, with male/female Antipholi and Dromios.
Finally we have this entry from what I call "The American Canon of Miserable Families Being Miserable", by Eugene O'Neill.
SOUNDS LIKE FUN!
But in all seriously, I'm very much looking forward to this season at the Stratford Festival. Maybe I'll see you there!
The second installment of my Three-Panel-Play series mercilessly abbreviates two comedies.
As You Like It is deceptively hard to capture in only three panels. I apologize for my ludicrous hatchet job. I also apologize for leaving Sylvius and Phebe out of the last panel: there was only space for three happy couples, and even then they had to squish together.
Really, I could probably boil down all the Shakespearean comedies to "_______ and hijinks ensue". That covers most of them, don't you think?
Coming up on Friday: Coriolanus (again!) and Cymbeline. I'm already having palpitations about how I'm going to manage to distill Cymbeline into three panels...
See all Three-Panel Plays here!
