the renaissance english folks are doing dramatic readings of all the bits in shakespeare that come under the theme of "love and cruelty." suggestions that have come around on email include:

1. Taming of the Shrew 2.1 (Petruccio and Katherine meet; fiesty)
2. Richard III 1.2 (Richard woos Anne over an open coffin)
3. Midsummer Night's Dream 2.2 (Helena follows Demetrius into the woods)
4. Julius Caesar 4.2 (Cassius and Brutus quarrel -- possibly too Brokeback Mountain?)
5. Hamlet 3.2 (Hamlet and Ophelia watch 'The Mousetrap')
6. Twelfth Night 1.5 (Olivia falls for Viola)
7. Twelfth Night 2.4 (Viola and Orsino discuss women; "patience on a monument")
8. Troilus and Cressida 4.5 (Cressida leaves for the enemy camp)
9. Othello 3.4 (Othello gives Desdemona the handkerchief)
10. Antony and Cleopatra 3.13 (they quarrel)
11. The Winter's Tale 2.1 (Polixenes accuses Hermione of adultery)

(do you want to take a part? shari d asked me. just a teeny one, i said, if you can find a page or messenger who comes in to say yes my lord no my lord and going off again.)