‘‘Don’t miss it. You won’t regret it’’ the notices on the walls of the School heralded, “Edmund and Cleopatra, a sticky story of love in ancient Egypt” presented by Forum Theatre & Education.
On Thursday 30 October, at 6 pm, was the play on. The School Auditorium was crowded by students and teachers. A drunk British guy appears on the stage wandering around, singing the goods of Cairo, of whole Egypt, the food, the Pyramids, Gods, Pharaohs, women, sitar’s sounds, the desert, suffocating heat, insects, …and above all, alcoholic drinks. He (Edmund) finally goes sound slept on the floor.
A fair hair girl appears in the morning. She gives him a drink and he wakes up and goes pop. He’s astonished seeing that beautiful girl. He was in El Cairo, the mother of all cities in Egyptian, “where you can get hung on, you can get out of your mind and go over and over all possibilities” and he had found a beautiful girl who was interested in him. She (Cleopatra) welcomes him to Cairo and mistakenly she thinks he is William Shakespeare, the famous British writer.
Cleopatra asks him for a favour: She likes him to write a play to help her to regain the Throne of Egypt which she says she has the right to occupy. He likes her and he thinks she’s a good plan. He takes a book of his brother William, his masterpiece: “Anthony and Cleopatra” and handed out to Cleopatra. She likes to play Cleopatra. He says he’ll be Mark Anthony, but she says no way. Edmund asks the audience for a guy to collaborate. Then, they need two more women so he asks the audience for them too. One of them, a fortune teller, tells bad news to Cleopatra but she doesn’t like hear about tragedy on the final days of the Queen of Egypt. The new characters play their best among the laughs of the audience.
The play goes on in Alexandria. After having some news on the death of Mark Anthony, Cleopatra changes the play and she says Mark Anthony marries her, instead of Octavia from Rome, and Edmund plays Mark Anthony dying in battle. From time to time, Edmund asks for his money but Cleopatra threats him to be bitten by her dogs. Finally, news of Roman Army attacking Egypt come. A peasant brings a basket with a snake inside it, the two other girls are bitten by the snake and then resuscitated. The snake bits also the “Rightful Queen of Egypt” who dies begging for the love of Mark Anthony in the afterlife.
Cleopatra seems to lay dead but when Edmund goes she takes the book and states that “She is the Rightful Queen of Egypt”.
Everyone liked the play. It was a funny one, it was easy to understand and actors played quite well. I think it is a very nice way of learning English, being one very good opportunity for listening to native English. As I said at the beginning and as was said on the notices, they were right, we don’t regret not having missed it.
On Thursday 30 October, at 6 pm, was the play on. The School Auditorium was crowded by students and teachers. A drunk British guy appears on the stage wandering around, singing the goods of Cairo, of whole Egypt, the food, the Pyramids, Gods, Pharaohs, women, sitar’s sounds, the desert, suffocating heat, insects, …and above all, alcoholic drinks. He (Edmund) finally goes sound slept on the floor.
A fair hair girl appears in the morning. She gives him a drink and he wakes up and goes pop. He’s astonished seeing that beautiful girl. He was in El Cairo, the mother of all cities in Egyptian, “where you can get hung on, you can get out of your mind and go over and over all possibilities” and he had found a beautiful girl who was interested in him. She (Cleopatra) welcomes him to Cairo and mistakenly she thinks he is William Shakespeare, the famous British writer.
Cleopatra asks him for a favour: She likes him to write a play to help her to regain the Throne of Egypt which she says she has the right to occupy. He likes her and he thinks she’s a good plan. He takes a book of his brother William, his masterpiece: “Anthony and Cleopatra” and handed out to Cleopatra. She likes to play Cleopatra. He says he’ll be Mark Anthony, but she says no way. Edmund asks the audience for a guy to collaborate. Then, they need two more women so he asks the audience for them too. One of them, a fortune teller, tells bad news to Cleopatra but she doesn’t like hear about tragedy on the final days of the Queen of Egypt. The new characters play their best among the laughs of the audience.
The play goes on in Alexandria. After having some news on the death of Mark Anthony, Cleopatra changes the play and she says Mark Anthony marries her, instead of Octavia from Rome, and Edmund plays Mark Anthony dying in battle. From time to time, Edmund asks for his money but Cleopatra threats him to be bitten by her dogs. Finally, news of Roman Army attacking Egypt come. A peasant brings a basket with a snake inside it, the two other girls are bitten by the snake and then resuscitated. The snake bits also the “Rightful Queen of Egypt” who dies begging for the love of Mark Anthony in the afterlife.
Cleopatra seems to lay dead but when Edmund goes she takes the book and states that “She is the Rightful Queen of Egypt”.
Everyone liked the play. It was a funny one, it was easy to understand and actors played quite well. I think it is a very nice way of learning English, being one very good opportunity for listening to native English. As I said at the beginning and as was said on the notices, they were right, we don’t regret not having missed it.
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