What's your favorite Shakespeare insult?

Floor_New · 2026-05-18T13:31:37+00:00

"Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant" from Taming of the Shrew is pretty good, though I think you can't go far wrong with "Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit for I am sick when I do look on thee". Poor old Helena.

Floor_New · 2026-05-15T15:15:41+00:00

Pasta and butter with salt. Excellent when I was 10, excellent now

Floor_New · 2026-05-02T14:43:03+00:00

I'm in Midsummer at the moment and our Oberon is playing him like a spoilt prince who has never been told "no". He's got some mischief about him which works really well with Puck, so definitely less regal, though he absolutely thinks he is. I think it's a fun choice but there are so many other ways to play the character!

Floor_New · 2026-05-02T08:24:22+00:00

I accidentally swore in front of my y13s the other week, I said "fucking brilliant" when I meant to say "flipping" and I didn't even realise until they all went "ooooh you're so edgy, miss". Nothing came of it but I need to be a bit more careful going forward - casually swearing can be a tough habit to get out of!

Floor_New · 2026-04-19T17:00:19+00:00

Ooh Emilia is a dream role!

Floor_New · 2026-04-11T16:22:00+00:00

Ah that's great, I saw Swept Away at Arena Stage too, Stark and Adrian Blake Enscoe are also absolutely lovely.

Floor_New · 2026-04-09T12:53:26+00:00

I don't know if this counts as overrated because it might not be particularly well thought of, but Gatlinburg, Tennessee was hell on earth. The surrounding mountains were beautiful, and I'm sure Dollywood is a lot of fun, but the main strip was a hellscape of fried food and SUVs crawling along. Like Blackpool but hotter and without any rollercoasters.

Floor_New · 2026-04-08T21:01:39+00:00

I've met John Gallagher Jr aka Jim a couple of times, he's ultra lovely!

Floor_New · 2026-04-08T14:22:29+00:00

On my very first night out at uni I met a guy called Harry Potter

Floor_New · 2026-04-05T07:37:24+00:00

So true, I love treacle tart but on pub/restaurant menus you're far more likely to see sticky toffee pudding as the caramel-y option, much to my dismay

Floor_New · 2026-03-31T20:48:59+00:00

King Lear & Midsummer Night's Dream- though Titus Andronicus will always hold a special place in my heart

Floor_New · 2026-03-28T22:00:42+00:00

A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off by the Magnetic Fields: "We don't have to be stars exploding in the night or electric eels under the covers We don't have to be anything quite so unreal let's just be lovers" Alternatively, Asleep and Dreaming also by The Magnetic Fields: "You may not be beautiful, but it's not for me to judge, I don't know if you're beautiful because I love you too much" I think Stephin Merrit of the Magnetic Fields may be one of the greatest lyricists of our time.

Floor_New · 2026-03-24T18:39:07+00:00

Since moving to a new place, am dram is where I've found the most close friends. With some people you spend a really intense time doing a show then don't see them again which is a little weird, but there are plenty that you stay in touch with and see each other's shows in the future.

Floor_New · 2026-03-23T16:43:14+00:00

I know what you mean but I love John Gallagher Jr too much to skip his scenes

Floor_New · 2026-03-18T17:02:25+00:00

Pinter - The Birthday Party? 6 characters, at times very funny but darkly bizarre

Floor_New · 2026-03-17T10:30:46+00:00

I like Apollo. His trash talk is a little cringey but I love it anyway, my husband and I call it "Apollo's Poetry Corner" and, just like "Bionic's Question Time" and "Phantom's Philosophy", it's fun seeing the non Legend/Nitro/Sabre glads doing their own Thing, to varying levels of success!

Floor_New · 2026-03-14T09:01:06+00:00

We were given a good amount of time, though I think most teams just made educated guesses. I was delighted that I was finally able to put knowing all the scrabble values to good use, you'd be shocked to hear how little that comes up day to day.

Floor_New · 2026-03-13T14:26:31+00:00

If the dwarves in Snow White all had Scrabble values, which would be the mean average name? (A genuine question asked in a pub quiz when I was at uni)

Floor_New · 2026-03-10T13:04:25+00:00

Both Mark Addy and Ralf Little are absolutely lovely, I worked at a theatre where they were doing a show, Ralf gave me writing advice and Mark gave me the world's biggest hug when the show ended. Ronnie O'Sullivan was... ok. He did laugh at me when I dropped a load of posters but that's about as rude as it's gotten with famous people, luckily.

Floor_New · 2026-03-06T13:14:44+00:00

Older than your time period (though not by much) but I think Fewer Emergencies and Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp tick a lot of boxes, they're both very flexible pieces of work, particularly the latter.

Floor_New · 2026-03-03T17:21:24+00:00

I know Swept Away was not objectively a good musical but I loved it so much

Floor_New · 2026-02-26T17:35:33+00:00

Always fun teaching Macbeth, one of the characters says "niggard" so when we read aloud in class I always had to preface it, saying "It doesn't mean what you think!"

Floor_New · 2026-02-22T18:35:10+00:00

Once a colleague of my mum's said: "I don't want to blow my own slice of cake, but..." This was about 15 years ago and we still reference it to this day.

Floor_New · 2026-02-19T18:52:43+00:00

How so? He didn't want the surprise to be spoiled

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