Viola puts on the act of a young man serving the Duke
We continue playing with the paradox from the Kinks song “Artificial Light”: “To be yourself you have to put on an act.” We spend time looking at the different acts people put on in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night – some of them successfully showing the true self, some of them not, getting side-tracked with three songs about woeful lovers (Lee Andrew and the Hearts, Ruben and the Jets, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles). Also featuring discussions of Richard III and a short excursion into Jane Austen’s Emma. You are invited to attend. (First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially-funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.) [To receive regular feeds of each show, sign up here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MomentsUnderLamplight]
Richard III is “determined to prove a villain” and puts on an act to win the throne – and then forgets he’s acting
Another fascinating example of putting on a (playful) act would be Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music. I admit that would not cover how in ordinary life we often find ourselves on a kind of stage and act out a role