Theodora Elucubrare

So as has been said before, my production of Hippolytus is not going to happen, or at least not this year (we'll have to recruit freshmen & sophomores to replace out seniors, but oh well), but I'm still working as if it will, id est memorizing my lines and translating. Tragedy is still a pain in the butt - give me Homer any day - but I am struggling through it, and laughing at how bitchy Artemis is, for serious. Speech to Theseus, paraphrased:

You were dumb. You killed your son because you were dumb.
You could have waited but you were taken in by your wife's lies.
I hate you now and so does your father.

And this is my character! Admittedly, my other character is Aphrodite, whose prologue consists of "Gee, I hate Hippolytus and am going to kill him. Also Phaedra, but I don't really care about her." But she's got the gloriously evil bastard thing going for her. Artemis just makes everything worse for the already miserable Theseus.

But I did get a little teary over her exchange with Hippolytus, which might have been written for me. She can't do anything to save him even though she wants to! "O patient one, what a destiny you are joined to/ your own nobility has destroyed you." It's really sweet, if you disregard how she's just ripped into Theseus for, essentially, loving and trusting his wife.


I love you, Euripides!

Edit: "Do you see me, mistress, see my pains?" :'(
Also maybe I am in a Mood or something, but even the fact that she's not allowed to cry makes me teary.