By Cal
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqYZvX8Y0rI
Available until: Unknown
Trigger warnings: Mental health problems, suicide attempts
With some plays, it doesn’t matter if you know nothing about
the background. You can pick it up as you watch. But with Dawn’s Early Light, I felt at a bit of a disadvantage. I’m a
British person who wasn’t around in in 1988 (I wasn’t born till 2000) and I can’t
help wondering if I’d have appreciated the play more if I’d researched in
advance. At the same time, I do feel a great play should be enjoyable without
research. I don’t really know much about how people lived in Shakespeare’s time
either, but I enjoy nearly all of his plays.
