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JediNemesis
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Date Posted:
5/29/07 12:34pm
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RE: The Shakespeare Thread: Now Disc. Clips of King Lear
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I'll watch the clip in a moment (I'm a touch stuck for time; we've only just got back and there's unpacking and stuff to do) but from Rogue's comment it sounds like it could be interesting.
Anyways. Ian McKellen was superb as the King, and the supporting cast were fantastic too. The one bum note was Romola Garai; Cordelia's only a tiny part but that doesn't excuse this kind of woodenness. She was upstaged by everyone, including the set  She may be more used to film but it really stood out in a production otherwise this good . . .
I confess to not having read the play before seeing it, so I was completely unprepared for a lot of it. I know the story, but, well . . . "Lear's shadow" . . . Or the stark atheist intellect of Edmund. What a killer of a part. It may partly have been down to his looking like a young Sean Bean (right down to the haircut and the grin) but the actor playing Edmund blew me away. Awesome performance. His name's Philip Winchester, I think; definitely one to watch.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
Title: Manager: Amphitheatre
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Date Posted:
6/2/07 9:37pm
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Edmund is a great part; absolutely gleeful.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
7/14/07 7:29pm
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A quote from Walter Matthau: "I'd love to work with Barbra Streisand again. In something appropriate. Perhaps Macbeth."
Ouch!!
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darth_frared
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8/22/07 5:14am
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interesting article about shakespeare and his sonnets here.
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topgoalscorer_no11
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8/31/07 6:03pm
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I saw that version King Lear, and would agree that Olivier/Hurt are staggeringly good!
Also, I saw Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe in London a month or so ago, and in spite of its reputation as one of Shakespeare's least accessible comedies and my unfamiliarity with the material, it was wonderful- not bad for five pounds!
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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Date Posted:
9/3/07 8:42pm
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Did anybody see the new As You Like It? It was on HBO recently with Kevin Kline and Bryce Dallas Howard. Apparently, updated to feudal Japan. Well, anyway, it had Kevin Kline.  I was flipping channels the other night and stumbled on it in the middle; didn't watch it, just curious if anyone else did?
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Zaz
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9/7/07 12:33pm
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Damn...I meant to, but often I can't find network stuff locally.
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Hammurabi
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12/9/07 9:00am
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The new Othello production featuring Chiwetel Ejiofor (and some other guy) is really making me wish there weren't an ocean between me and West End.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
12/9/07 10:49am
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You and me both. McGregor as Iago sounds wonderful, though he isn't getting the reviews. Ejiofor is, and well deserved.
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Zaz
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5/1 12:52pm
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Has anyone seen the movie "Titus"?
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Yodas-evil-twin
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5/1 12:55pm
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No, but I have seen a T.V. movie adaption of Macbeth starring Ian McKellan.
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Zaz
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5/1 12:56pm
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Where did you see that? I bet he was great.
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Yodas-evil-twin
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5/1 1:05pm
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We watched it in English class. It's out on DVD and really worth buying.
Here's a clip.
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darkmole
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5/1 3:39pm
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Titus is a good movie -- one of the very few Shakespeare films worth watching.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
5/1 4:14pm
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I suspect they made changes...?
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