Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

I can’t even begin to say what I hate about this play, other than everything. I hate that there is rape involving a crucifix, I don’t care that it’s a physical manifestation of symbolic woes. I hate that Tomson Highway seems to think that girls farting while looking coy is something that should be utilized more than once. I hate that half the time the only female roles are to wear absolutely nothing. I’m glad I just read this, because if I had seen this, there is absolutely no doubt I would have walked right out, and I never do that.

1/5

As You Like It

I'm rarely enamoured with Shakespeare's comedies, and As You Like It is no exception. It retreads concepts Shakespeare has examined in other plays (Twelth Night as a more enjoyable example), and with the exception of the famous speech on the phases of man, offers nothing Shakespeare hasn't done, and better.

I was reading this for a queer literature course, but the concepts in relationship to queerness have been tread and retread, and it appears the only reason we read this text in particular was in order to offer a familiar author in a queer context (which his sonnets would have achieved, and in a munch more interesting way).

2.5/5