your son-in-law is far more fair than black
Last night I had a dream in which I was directing a really off-the-cuff low-budget student production of Othello in which for some reason I had been prevailed upon to do the title role. In all my Anglo-Saxon pastiness. It was really weird. And people kept interrupting the production because it was located in the middle of the student center, but that was just as well, as it wasn't very good anyway.
In other low-budget and poorly-cast (but non-fictional) production news, I got a brochure from St. Louis Shakespeare in the mail today, advertising the 2005 season, which will kick off in July with Henry V. This is troublesome, on the grounds that a) based on my prior experience it will almost certainly suck, and b) I am constitutionally incapable of staying away from productions of plays in the second tetralogy, and so will probably go and see it anyway. The guy playing Henry did Antony in last season's production of Julius Caesar, and was actually fairly competent, relatively speaking, but I can't picture him as Henry V at all. Well, we shall see.
Also, I expect that the infamous Pooh-colored chainmail, as seen in 2 Henry IV and Julius Caesar, will be making another appearance.
I'm also afraid I'll have to go see The Winter's Tale, which is also scheduled for this season, since one gets so few chances.
(Although I actually own four and a half filmed versions of it, plus one audio recording, I've actually only ever seen one stage production of Henry V -- this was a production by the short-lived Detroit Women's Shakespeare Project, with an all female cast, back when I was in high school. I'd auditioned for it, in fact, and although thinking back on it, it probably wasn't a very good production, though it certainly wasn't a bad one at all, I thought it was tremendously cool anyway, just in principle. I do think it's interesting, too, that all-female companies tend to gravitate towards HV -- I've read of quite a few others that have done it as their first production -- and I guess it's precisely because there's so much machismo in it.)
Incidentally, I dislike the week between spring and summer terms a great deal, on the grounds that there's never any place to park on campus in the daytime because of end-of-year/graduation festivities, but the library closes at six o'clock. I have research to do!
In other low-budget and poorly-cast (but non-fictional) production news, I got a brochure from St. Louis Shakespeare in the mail today, advertising the 2005 season, which will kick off in July with Henry V. This is troublesome, on the grounds that a) based on my prior experience it will almost certainly suck, and b) I am constitutionally incapable of staying away from productions of plays in the second tetralogy, and so will probably go and see it anyway. The guy playing Henry did Antony in last season's production of Julius Caesar, and was actually fairly competent, relatively speaking, but I can't picture him as Henry V at all. Well, we shall see.
Also, I expect that the infamous Pooh-colored chainmail, as seen in 2 Henry IV and Julius Caesar, will be making another appearance.
I'm also afraid I'll have to go see The Winter's Tale, which is also scheduled for this season, since one gets so few chances.
(Although I actually own four and a half filmed versions of it, plus one audio recording, I've actually only ever seen one stage production of Henry V -- this was a production by the short-lived Detroit Women's Shakespeare Project, with an all female cast, back when I was in high school. I'd auditioned for it, in fact, and although thinking back on it, it probably wasn't a very good production, though it certainly wasn't a bad one at all, I thought it was tremendously cool anyway, just in principle. I do think it's interesting, too, that all-female companies tend to gravitate towards HV -- I've read of quite a few others that have done it as their first production -- and I guess it's precisely because there's so much machismo in it.)
Incidentally, I dislike the week between spring and summer terms a great deal, on the grounds that there's never any place to park on campus in the daytime because of end-of-year/graduation festivities, but the library closes at six o'clock. I have research to do!