Lady ELICA MIWA

International drama artist. Laugh, love, live. actor, director, writer.

[Lady ELICA MIWA @MiwaElica]

Happy Birthday, My Dear Will!  
I hope you like my Jaques.
#shakespeare #jaques #alltheworldsastage

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Former Bush Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Donald Trump: “I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed…he is unqualified and unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.”

RETWEET if you stand with Gates against Trump!

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Since Trump doesn't want this portrait of President Obama displayed in the White House, let's make this photo of our President go viral here!

RETWEET if you love @BarackObama!

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It’s not talked about enough that an Epstein and Ghislaine maxwell associate who sat on the board of one of Ghislaine’s companies got America’s First Lady her visa…

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@Matt_Pinner New I’m alone.

[Lady ELICA MIWA @MiwaElica]

Won the photo contest at the British Embassy in Japan. #AlumniUK
With Her Excellency the Ambassador Julia Longbottom.
The photo is of my MA production, at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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@wannyan Nice

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@Matt_Pinner Mercy

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Whoever visiting me here, Thank you so much ❤️ but see me either on Threads @elica_miwa or Blue Sky @elicamiwa.bsky.social

[Lady ELICA MIWA @MiwaElica]

Sad and angry as so-called x has now become a vile personal platform for his own. Well, he owns it, anyway 🤧

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Feels like no longer USA, but DSA.

[Lady ELICA MIWA @MiwaElica]

🧵
The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
I hope you enjoyed each short beautiful, funny, deep words.
I enjoyed making the series sooooo much!
Thank you for your encouragement!

#shakespeare #english #actingtips #directing #valentine #twogentlemenofverona #lifeinJapan #kimono

[Lady ELICA MIWA @MiwaElica]

🎭That done, our day of marriage shall be yours; 
One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.
—Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4

[ACTING TIPS]
This is the closing line of the entire play.

The meaning of “that” in “That done” is “Proteus should🧵

[Lady ELICA MIWA @MiwaElica]

Male audience might have not seen these female characters’ “not truly happy ending” as a problem.  But in this age of 21st century, we know girls also think, feel, and frustrated and have rights to question the male-oriented social system.

Wow, that’s it!
The Two Gentlemen of 🧵

[Lady ELICA MIWA @MiwaElica]

🧵changed his mind and said this.

He is a petty, trivial man, whom you may know so many of such kind near you.  You know how to play him.

We also know that he is not in love with Silvia any way, but with the future position of Duke of Milan, by marrying her.

#actingtips

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🎭 I hold him but a fool that will endanger 
His body for a girl that loves him not.
— Turio, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4

[ACTING TIPS]
Turio was just told from Valentine that if he were to claim Silvia, he would be seen as an enemy of Verona.
Thus he immediately changed his 🧵

[Lady ELICA MIWA @MiwaElica]

🧵Remember the first lines of Act 2, Scene 6, when he counterbalanced the weight of the sins he was about to commit.  
“O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,
Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it!”

#shakespeare #actingtips #directing #twogentlemenofverona

[Lady ELICA MIWA @MiwaElica]

🎭 That one error 
Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins.
— Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4

[ACTING TIPS]
There is a Japanese proverb; Ichi-ji ga Ban-ji, meaning:  one thing leads to all.
Proteus realizes the same.

To play the words, I would🧵

[Lady ELICA MIWA @MiwaElica]

🧵I would say Proteus must be filled with remorse.
I am not yet quite sure what, for Proteus, is the first “that one error”.

When I don’t yet know the answer, I try acting all the possibilities.
Was the first error to leave Verona?
Or to obey his father?

Remember the first🧵