http://sararyan.com/2007/08/about-to-be-an-audience-member/ Novelist, comics writer, and librarian based in Portland, Oregon. Wed, 23 May 2012 03:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://sararyan.com/2007/08/about-to-be-an-audience-member/#comment-2051 Donna Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:03:48 +0000 http://sararyan.com/2007/08/about-to-be-an-audience-member/#comment-2051 I love Ashland - I've never made it to the festival though. I wanted to go to Southern Oregon earlier this month but family issues intervened. Perhaps I'll make an October run .... I love Ashland – I’ve never made it to the festival though. I wanted to go to Southern Oregon earlier this month but family issues intervened. Perhaps I’ll make an October run ….

]]> http://sararyan.com/2007/08/about-to-be-an-audience-member/#comment-2043 Leah Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:37:16 +0000 http://sararyan.com/2007/08/about-to-be-an-audience-member/#comment-2043 It's awesome. I was up there last year, I think. Everything I saw (Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Importance of Being Ernest, Cyrano) was fantastic. Two Gents was the most radical. During the country scenes, everyone was in Amish clothes, in the city: tennis whites, and in the forrest of outlaws: Goth attire. It worked to Two Gents, because the plot is really problematic. Two friends competing for one girl. She likes Boy A, but Boy B absconds with her and tries to rape her. Boy A stops him, but then says, in essence, your friendship means a lot to me, so it's alright if you rape my girlfriend. Then Boy B has a sudden change of heart. It's a weird ending, so the costumes made the whole thing surreal, and made it work. It’s awesome. I was up there last year, I think. Everything I saw (Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Importance of Being Ernest, Cyrano) was fantastic. Two Gents was the most radical. During the country scenes, everyone was in Amish clothes, in the city: tennis whites, and in the forrest of outlaws: Goth attire. It worked to Two Gents, because the plot is really problematic. Two friends competing for one girl. She likes Boy A, but Boy B absconds with her and tries to rape her. Boy A stops him, but then says, in essence, your friendship means a lot to me, so it’s alright if you rape my girlfriend. Then Boy B has a sudden change of heart. It’s a weird ending, so the costumes made the whole thing surreal, and made it work.

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