Video | Location | Description | |
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The Love-Sick Court |
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LS_1_1 | Act 1 | Eudina's direct address of her speech to the audience. | Watch video |
LS_1_2 | Act 1 | Eudina's speech is addressed to the audience, whilst the brothers take part in a family conference with their mother and sister. | Watch video |
LS_1_3 | Act 1 | This version exploits the potential comedy by overplaying the brothers' devotion to each other, and featuring an exasperated Eudina who fakes her swoon to gain their attention. | Watch video |
LS_1_4 | Act 1 | The Rustics approach the King, bowing individually. The King's throne is placed centre stage with his counsellors on either side and the Rustics kneel along the front. | Watch video |
LS_1_5 | Act 1 | The Rustics turn round (on Eupathus' cue) to face the audience after presenting the petition to the King. | Watch video |
LS_1_6 | Act 1 | An alternative staging of the Rustics at the side of the stage, while the King's throne is set in the upstage right corner. | Watch video |
LS_3_1 | Act 3 | The staging of Eudina's sleep and her dream vision. | Watch video |
LS_3_2 | Act 3 | Placilla's aside, spoken to herself and heard by the audience. | Watch video |
LS_3_3 | Act 3 | Placilla's aside delivered as to Thymele. | Watch video |
LS_3_4 | Act 3 | Doris delivers 'His ill looks' as an aside to herself and the audience. | Watch video |
LS_3_5 | Act 3 | Doris delivers 'His ill looks' out loud, so that Geron can hear her. | Watch video |
LS_3_6 | Act 3 | Geron's accent mimics his mother's, even though his learning surpasses her. Garula coaches her son in his 'postures'. | Watch video |
LS_3_7 | Act 3 | Geron's use of 'coition' alarms Doris. | Watch video |
LS_5_1 | Act 5 | Philocles and Philargus draw lots, but look at them and swap them several times to give the other advantage. | Watch video |
LS_5_2 | Act 5 | Philargus pretends he has drawn 'friendship' so that Philocles will get Eudina, but he is being deceptive and Philocles calls his bluff. | Watch video |
LS_5_3 | Act 5 | Philargus falls down in reaction to the poisoned wine; Disanius describes it as 'womanish'. | Watch video |
LS_5_4 | Act 5 | Disanius attempts to juggle a dead body, Philocles (who keeps threatening suicide) and a criminal. | Watch video |