On the heels of the squee-inducing news that the RSC will be doing a cinema broadcast of David Tennant's Richard II, more excitement:

NT Live will be broadcasting Kenneth Branagh's upcoming Macbeth.

It is going to be such a great summer/fall. In addition to those productions, also happening in the future are:

Jamie Parker in Henry V

Mark ( Read more... )

MORE CINEMA BROADCASTS FROM THE GLOBE (thanks to a_t_rain and tempestsarekind for the tip!)

ALL'S WELL
MUCH ADO

AND EVIL!RORY DOCTOR FAUSTUS ( Read more... )

YOU GUYS.

I have been really bad at actually watching the Globe to Globe productions after having a screaming fit of glee about them on lj, because they always seem to vanish before I have a chance -- but I knew I didn't want to miss Ashtar Theatre's production of Richard II in Palestinian Arabic: I wouldn't have anyway, but it even got a glowing ( Read more... )

So I was in the middle of a temper tantrum just now because people on my twitter feed have been tweeting about seeing Palestinian Richard II at the Globe to Globe Festival, an event that has filled me with occasional rage and disappointment because I CANNOT AFFORD TO GO SEE IT and EVEN IF I COULD I HAVE CLASSES TO TEACH.

EXCEPT.

The estimable fuunsaiki ( Read more... )

Day #17: Your favorite speech

I talked about Richard II's prison soliloquy on both Day 1 and Day 2, so I think I will do the lazy thing again and post performances of it. Even though I have never seen one that completely nails it, these are all really good, so perhaps if we put them into some kind of hypothetical dramatic centrifuge we would get ( Read more... )

People for whom angevin2 has a total soft spot:

1. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, because his gentleman-usher George Cavendish wrote a weirdly endearing if overly copious in intestinal-related detail biography of him, and because he makes such a fantastic exit in Shakespeare/Fletcher's Henry VIII.2. Clive Wood, because he was fucking amazing as York in the RSC ( Read more... )

Everybody I know is miserable today.

So I think we should all watch this (I know we have probably all seen it because I post it a lot).

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Today's piece of unsettling Shakespeare merchandise.

or, How To Cheer Up Sufficiently That Your Brain Is Swimming In Serotonin, In One Easy Step.

The video quality is not thrilling, as the picture has been squished by Photobucket, but you get the idea, and it is still shiny.

( Have some Instant Happy: A curtain call from the Globe )

On this date in 1613, the original Globe Theatre burned down during a performance of Henry VIII (or All is True, hence the refrain of the following poem) when a stage-cannon misfired. Everyone made it out okay, although one fellow's pants caught on fire and were extinguished by a thoughtful person with beer (as the tour guides at the rebuilt Globe ( Read more... )