Interview Meme: The Revenge
This set of questions comes from the lovely likeadeuce. You know the drill by now, but for the sake of form, the instructions:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions.
3. You should then update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You should include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed you should ask them 5 questions.
Comment away, but if you want questions, go here, since I am still working through the last set of requests.
1) Which Shakespearean character's drunken confessions would you most like to hear?
Henry IV's. I know you are shocked.
2) Slings & Arrows is primarily a love story between ___ and ___?
Geoffrey and Shakespeare. Actually I suppose it is more of a Geoffrey/Shakespeare/Oliver three-way.
3) What's your desert island book. . .written in the 19th century or later?
I think it pretty much has to be The Once and Future King. I did consider The Lord of the Rings, but Once and Future King doesn't have all the annoying fannish baggage attached.
4) I'm going to see 'Richard II' at American Shakespeare Center in a couple weeks. What is one moment in the production that I should look out for to see how they handle it.
If I have to choose one, I think it'd be the meeting of Richard and Bolingbroke at Flint Castle (act 3 scene 3, usually the scene right before the interval): it's this huge moment because it's where the power changes hands officially, but at the same time it's where Richard takes control of the play. Henry is all deferential and kneeling and "I come but for mine own" -- maybe he even means it, in a self-deluding kind of way -- and Richard completely refuses to let him maintain the illusion ("Your own is yours," he says). And it's all done in these very simple, understated lines.
Also, with the right actors it's really, really slashy. (Sam West, Damian Lewis, I am looking in your direction.)
5) What is one indisputably great work of literature that should be adapted into a weekly TV series?
Well, I have long thought that someone needs to turn Shakespeare's histories into an Epic Cable Miniseries with a lot of attractive men in it so that the histories will get a proper fandom. Setting aside that predictable if extremely pertinent answer, I like a_t_rain's idea for a series in which Beatrice and Benedick solve mysteries. YOU KNOW IT WOULD ROCK.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions.
3. You should then update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You should include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed you should ask them 5 questions.
Comment away, but if you want questions, go here, since I am still working through the last set of requests.
1) Which Shakespearean character's drunken confessions would you most like to hear?
Henry IV's. I know you are shocked.
2) Slings & Arrows is primarily a love story between ___ and ___?
Geoffrey and Shakespeare. Actually I suppose it is more of a Geoffrey/Shakespeare/Oliver three-way.
3) What's your desert island book. . .written in the 19th century or later?
I think it pretty much has to be The Once and Future King. I did consider The Lord of the Rings, but Once and Future King doesn't have all the annoying fannish baggage attached.
4) I'm going to see 'Richard II' at American Shakespeare Center in a couple weeks. What is one moment in the production that I should look out for to see how they handle it.
If I have to choose one, I think it'd be the meeting of Richard and Bolingbroke at Flint Castle (act 3 scene 3, usually the scene right before the interval): it's this huge moment because it's where the power changes hands officially, but at the same time it's where Richard takes control of the play. Henry is all deferential and kneeling and "I come but for mine own" -- maybe he even means it, in a self-deluding kind of way -- and Richard completely refuses to let him maintain the illusion ("Your own is yours," he says). And it's all done in these very simple, understated lines.
Also, with the right actors it's really, really slashy. (Sam West, Damian Lewis, I am looking in your direction.)
5) What is one indisputably great work of literature that should be adapted into a weekly TV series?
Well, I have long thought that someone needs to turn Shakespeare's histories into an Epic Cable Miniseries with a lot of attractive men in it so that the histories will get a proper fandom. Setting aside that predictable if extremely pertinent answer, I like a_t_rain's idea for a series in which Beatrice and Benedick solve mysteries. YOU KNOW IT WOULD ROCK.