This may seem funny but I wanted to run it by you guy's to see what you think. I will be playing Brutus in Shakespeares "Julius Caesar" this semester. Durring one of my monologues I plan on concealing two blades in my sleeve and drawing them while I perform my monologe. My idea was to incorporate some kind of movement to go with text, I think it would look kind of cool. I was thinking about critisim from people saying there wouldn't be that kind of combative influence on these particular characters, but I think it would be neat none the less. I will leave my monologue here for you guy's to check out. What do you all think?
Our course will seem to bloody, caius Cassius,
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:
Let us be sacraficers, but not butchers, caius.
We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar;
and in the spirit of men there is no blood:
O, that we then could come by Caesars spirit,
and not dismember Caesar! But alas,
Caesar must bleed for it! and, gentle, friends,
Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
Let's carve him a dish fit for the god's,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds:
And let our hearts, as settle masters do,
stir up there servants to an act of rage,
and after seem to chide em. This shall make
Our purpose necessary and not envious:
Which so appearing to the common eyes,
We shall be called purgers, not murderers.
And for Mark Antony, think not of him;
For he can do no more than Caesars arm
when Caesars head is cut off.
(William Shakespeare), "Julius Caesar" 1601
