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Raillery (Teasing) |
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Cam Magee reads instructions from Dialogues for Schools, an 1813 textbook:
"Raillery [what we call 'teasing'] puts on the aspect of cheerfulness; the countenance smiling, and the tone of voice sprightly."
GRATIANO (Clint Brandhagen):
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice
By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio,
(I love thee, and ‘tis my love that speaks;)
There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
And do a wilfull stillness entertain,
With purpose to be drest in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
As who should say, I am, sir, Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
I’ll tell thee more of this another time;
But fish not with this melancholy bait
For this fool’s gudgeon, this opinion.
—The Merchant of Venice
Antonio: Jason Stiles
Video by GVI, Inc.
Creative Director: Bob Burnett
Producer: Curtis Croley
Director of Photography: David Krupin
Sound Design: Scott Burgess
Sound Recording: Al Faison and Trudy Hutcherson
Video editor: Allison Rae
Filmed at the Elizabethan Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, December 2006.
Bill’s Buddies, 2006–07:
Cam Magee (also Buddies company manager)
Elisha Efua Bartels
Clinton Brandhagen
Jason Stiles
Bill’s Buddies production manager: Niki Jacobsen
Bill’s Buddies is the educational outreach acting troupe of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Folger director of education and public programs: Janet Alexander Griffin
Folger head of education: Jeremy Ehrlich
Folger technical director / Production Manager: Eric Grims
Folger head of external affairs: Garland Scott
Folger director: Gail Kern Paster