Emily Ota, Brittany Chandler, Levi Morger, Samantha Blinn, Claire Curtis-Ward & Ariana Karp are in a melancholy and disturbed state as we reflect on the murder of the Duchess, her children and Cariola.
At the beginning, we talk quite a bit about our experiences and the acting challenges with the strangling scene. Puzzling away we also discuss:
- Does Bosola kill the Duchess? Or do the Executioners?
- The psychology of killing-the ultimate act of intimacy for the executioners?
- Ritual nature of violence and brutality-spectacle of violence in Elizabethan & Jacobean culture
- Public vs. Private deaths
- Ferdinand's lycanthropia
- What does Ferdinand want? Did he want Duchess to die?
- Science and mathematical language and imagery within the play and the significance of its use.
A Lycanthrope