Paper Stage UKC

Informal, lively & experimental play reading group, focused primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries at the University of Kent. Tweets by @Thewritersbrew

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

On Monday we will be reading Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors - come along to the Peter Brown Room at 5pm for wine, popcorn and a good time. #PaperStage @UniKentEnglish #Shakespeare

[Shakespeare Magazine @UKShakespeare]

Richard II: All is lost. But at least I'm going to have the best death scene ever.

Richard III: Hold my beer.

[Shakespeare’s Globe @The_Globe]

As, painfully to pore upon a book
To seek the light of truth, while truth the while
Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

#LovesLabourLost
#ShakespeareSunday

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

On Monday we will be reading Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors - come along to the Peter Brown Room at 5pm for wine, popcorn and a good time. #PaperStage @UniKentEnglish #Shakespeare

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

Let the sky rain potatoes - Falstaff [5.5.18]
#MerryWives #PaperStage #WaitWhat

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

Wives may be merry and yet honest too. / We do not act that often jest and laugh - Mistress Page [4.2.100/1] #MerryWives #PaperStage

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

Master Ford desires you to come suddenly - Mistress Page[4.1.5]
I would like to know whether this had the same gigglesome subtext then that it does now #MerryWives #PaperStage #RenaissanceSexJokes

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

Just #GalsBeingPals #NoHomo here. Act 3, Scene 2 #MerryWives #PaperStage

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

Whenever Caius talks, all I hear is this: #MerryWives #PaperStage

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

If he should intend this voyage toward my wife, I would turn her loose to him, and what he gets more of her than sharp works, let it lie on my head. - Page [2.1.164-7]
What a refreshing change of pace regarding marriage.
#MerryWives #PaperStage

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

Boarding, call you it? I'll be sure to keep him above deck. - M. Ford
So will I. If he come under my hatches. - M. Page
[2.1.80-1] #MerryWives #PaperStage

[ruby 🐊 @roobeekeane]

you Vs. the manuscript she tells you not to worry about

#GameOfThrones

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

What shall de honest man do in my closet? Dere is no honest man dat shall come in my closet. - Caius [1.4.67/8] #MerryWives #PaperStage

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

But let that pass - Mistress Quickly [1.4.13] Are we suddenly in "Shoemaker's Holiday"? #MerryWives #PaperStage

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

What says my bully rook? - Host [1.3.2] #MerryWives #PaperStage

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

He hath wronged me, indeed he hath, at a word he hath - Shallow [1.1.98/9] #MerryWives #PaperStage

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

Does it count as fanfiction if its the original author who writes it? #MerryWives #PaperStage #Shakespeare #FanFiction

[Bardweb.net @ShakespeareRes]

What if Shakespeare was Shakespeare?
https://t.co/V6izZoWDqg

"The problem with Winkler's piece is not just that she has confused desire for demonstration. It's that her aim is to reduce imaginative space, not expand it."

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

We're still hoping to read tonight! As both co-runners are a bit brain frazzled, we'll be trying #MerryWives again this evening! #PaperStage

[Paper Stage UKC @paperstage_ukc]

Most definitely! But not on a pedestal or vacuum - get kids reading it out loud as that is where the fear stems from

[Shakespeare Magazine @UKShakespeare]

That's a yes from us. https://t.co/dUdHFTK07X