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[rivkat]

I just had to share this: in one of the SV tie-ins, it is apparently revealed that Lex's favorite play is Cyrano de Bergerac.

Of course it is, sweetie.

I just saw a production of Cyrano at the Shakespeare a few weeks ago. Nice production, but they're all three of them twits. It's funny -- played as epic, this story is my absolute favorite; played for smaller stakes, the happiness of three people, it drives me nuts. Ultimately, Cyrano is a selfish cad, stomping all over happiness because he's too stuck-up to accept life's little (or, to be fair, big) imperfections, like the fact that his lady love sees another as more beautiful, and Roxane's the same way -- though I may be unfair to her, seeing as he never gives her the chance to choose. Maybe I'd feel better if he could see that his choices were mistakes.

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[notreallyjordan.livejournal.com]

Just like Lex's choices?

What's scary is that the twelve year old's review of that book is better than most of my college freshmen could write, and that is not an exaggeration.

Cyrano could very well be one of Lex's favorite plays because it is just pretentious enough (a "classic") to sound cool to teenagers who see rich as synonomous with cultured, and romantic, which is what Smallville is all about.

What do you think Lex's favorite play would be?

Me, I think Faust, or Othello. Or maybe George Bernard Shaw's "Man and..." heh heh heh

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I might go for Kean, because it gets in Hamlet as an extra play within a play, and it's all about mirrors and performing identity. Also because it was my favorite as a pretentious teenager. But I also see Lex as a Richard III "prove a villain" type.