Which Shakespeare play has the most parts for women??

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Anyone know this off the top of their head - so that I don't have to look?

I didn't do any Shakespeare at all until O'level (Macbeth) but ds1 has already 'done' R&J and Midsummer Night's Dream in year 5. He didn't like R&J at all (hardly surprising - they made them watch the Zeffirelli film) but he found MND very funny (thankfully, they had some actors in who did a workshop/live performance).

Not surprised at your son DrMoo - I'd have cringed at R&J, specially amid classmates, at 9 or 10.

Twelfth Night is pretty good for primary age - ds (year 3) went to see it with school & got all the funny bits, without the sort of creepy angst Malvolio gives you when you're older.

Macbeth perfect for pubescent fascination with DOOM.

(Traditionally, Julius Caesar was the school play: because it has No Sex.)

Marina, that was a very lovely thing to say.

The reason I want know si that I want to direct one next year (am doing Much ado this year) adn wouldlike ot include as many women as possible, and not playing men!!

I don't know Lovs Labours but it does seem to have a fair few and be a comedy

I saw year 5 and 6 watching and particepating in wonder at a performance/workshop of MSND.

wonderful play to introduce kids to shakespare

It is not a "happy" comedy though. He puts poor old Helena through hell

I don't know it at all - I want a fun one but don't really want to do MSND and have done AYLI, 12th Night and Much ado already

Do The Comedy of Errors - you're only one down and it is a lot of fun.
"Let's go side by side, not one before the other..." did you see that wonderful production?

I saw a very sour but convincing production of All's Well a couple of years back. I don't recall laughing once. Well, not in a joyful way anyway. So she gets her man? But he's a tosser.

which one?

I have thought of C of E, I love it.

The RSC musical one. At the Aldwych. (Pre Barbican etc)

This thread exemplifies why I love Mumsnet. And indeed why I have worshipped Bink since she was a third year student being very nice to a callow young be-badged Notyetamotherinferior.

No I didn't. I worked on th Ian Judge one with des Barrit playing both Antiphlus - and it was great fun - if a little lacking in soul

I am not totally convinced by Des Barritt, I am sorry to say (have serial Stratford-visiting pals who think the sun shines out of his capacious backside). I think Ian Judge may have been responsible for the August-1914 production we saw of Love's Labour's Lost

Yes he did do LLL.

He is a slimey little toad - the poisen Dwarf

Des has lost his foot !! and is slimmer now

he was very funny as Antipholus

You would have been a tiny child to see the singing one, just like moi...

You know, I just can't contemplate Much Ado without thinking of wonderful Roger and Susan. I will never forget that production as long as I live. Full of warmth and fun, but pulling no punches too

It was the season I did at Stratford - I was working on a show opposite it. I wokred on Roger adn Susans Seagul

Gosh, how awful re Des' foot (and unsurprising news re IJ being a noxious little man). I did wonder what it was that turned Jeremy Northam so violently off the RSC...he lasted about six months despite the pick of the roles that season didn't he

I know, you told me before. I am almost apoplectic with envy and pleasure for you at how much fun you must have had.

Jeremy Northam??? He was not my season - possibly hte one before - did he do Country Wife?

it was a joy - espeically aas I was single and there were so many nice young actors

Yes. But then He Went. We actually did a weekend in Stratford seeing CW and LLL, but we saw Much Ado in London and it must have been the adjacent season

I think Roger Allam is a Sex God. There, I have said it, I am even contemplating seeing Boeing Boeing for the pleasure of his voice and his magical comic timing

yes I think it was - we didn't have much to do with the opposite season - we were dling 4 shows, working day and night..and loving it

He is looking old now and very jowly.

and he is the biggest flirt - as is Ralph F