Tuesday, March 25, 2008

A Comedy of Errors

No, not your love life.

I'm talking about the Shakespeare comedy. It's the perfect play to put on in the Marshall Islands. It involves a boat arriving at an island. Two of its passengers have identical twins on the island (but unknown to them). Thus ensues a travesty of mistaken identities.

A group from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire has made it a tradition of coming to Majuro to put on a Shakespeare play for the past few years. My good friend Dan Cacavano, a volunteer high school teacher, has gotten involved through the making of a 5 part documentary series outlining the making of A Comedy of Errors. He's using the opportunity to teach a student media team basics about interviewing, storyboarding and editing (in IMovie).

Here is the link to Part 1, which acts as a backgrounder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akHfCEu_iDg

It took Dan 7 hours to upload this file. So if you watch it, enjoy every second.

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