I've been away from email (and will be for another two days) but wanted to drop a quick suggestion for scenes. We use the old Northrop Frye "Argument of Comedy" model (something Doc made everyone read, I think) to stitch together a Shakespeare "comedy" by choosing and arranging scenes from comedy, tragedy, and romance that reproduce the narrative arc that structures all the comedies (and romances, and failed comedies Lear, R&J, Othello, Coriolanus, and selected histories etc.) Scenes, in other words, that fit in big categories, from PROBLEMS to GREEN WORLDS to RESOLUTIONS.
So we'd start with 4 or 5 (or x) "problem" scenes, in which grumpy old men insist on grumpy old privilege and derail their children's fun (Egeus, Lear, Oliver) or other "problem" characters do their thing (RIII, Leontes). Then we stage disguises, departures, fake deaths: characters leaving for alternative spaces where grumpy old men can't get their way. Followed by all the wonderful party scenes: sheep shearing, Malvolio-tricking, prison shenanigans from Measure, 3.1 from Comedy of Errors, foresters in As You Like It, Outlaws from 2 Gents, tavern scenes from Henriad, but also the act 3 Heath scene(s) from Lear, maybe the cashiering of Cassio, Richard III's preacher-and- prayer ruse, etc. Then we do marriages and reunions and mystical redemptions across the canon. I think we could even do bits of tragedy there in the end, and really, the idea is sort of more an obvious approach to stringing together scenes than it is anything else, but it should, in any case, help us get at narrative arcs while not confining us to a single play.
Matt