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Sunday, January 22. 2012

Kevin Spacey as Richard lll

This production of Richard lll is a stunner, according to my family including my theatrical pupette, and the reviews. It's traveled around the world, now finishing up at BAM in New York until March 4. (Trailer of the performance at the link). Worth a trip to Brooklyn.


It's a joint production of the Old Vic, BAM, and Neal Street, known as "The Bridge."


“Mr. Spacey gives fierce and flashy physical life to every twist of a power-mad man’s corkscrew mind.” —The New York Times


 


Since we're on the topic of Shakespeare, Never Yet Melted found this:




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Very interesting clip about the OP, thanks.
#1 XRay on 2012-01-22 14:14 (Reply)
Another good OP performance of a A Midsummer Night's Dream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWe1b9mjjkM
#2 BobJustBob on 2012-01-22 14:52 (Reply)
In November, the University of Nevada, Reno put on a production of Hamlet in the Original Pronunciation starring Ben Crystal, the actor interviewed in the clip. You can see photos from the production at one of his blogs. http://yearoftheprince.blogspot.com/2012/01/hamlet-contemporary-world-premiere-in.html
#3 Kurt on 2012-01-22 16:19 (Reply)
Fascinating! Now I understand why the Irish and the Welsh do Shakespeare so well. They're not speaking with an accent, that's how they still speak.

Some fifty-odd years back, as best memory serves, a group of linguists from the United Kingdom came to the United States to study how folks in the "back hills" would speak Elizabethian English. Much to their surprise, our hillbillies spoke the language quite well, even to proper rhyming and word play...all without ever intending to do so. I guess this means that Larry The Cable Guy has a whole new career ahead of him doing Hamlet.

"Oh fie Cursed Bird Dog! Thou hast causest me to become more knowing of things and that against my tender Will."
#4 Michael Scott on 2012-01-22 18:53 (Reply)
Act 1, the Tempest is at full fury and the mariners are in panic. Ariel says

Not a soul
But felt a fever of the mad and play'd
Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,
With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--
Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty
And all the devils are here.'
#5 buddy larsen on 2012-01-23 02:50 (Reply)
--just looked at the clip --highly recommend --fascinating --living language indeed, it IS a living thing!
#6 buddy larsen on 2012-01-23 13:26 (Reply)
Thanks, Bird Dog!! Wonderful.

I read David Crystal's book "The Stories of English" at the shore one summer (2004-5?). Couldn't put it down all week it was so fascinating. Forever linked in my mind with The Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Susan Lee
#7 Susan Lee on 2012-01-23 16:48 (Reply)

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