The short version: it was the best Richard II I have ever seen.

The long version will follow after I have had some sleep and graded some papers and flailed some more. But I am actually really angry at myself now for booking a flight on Sunday at 4:30, meaning I cannot go to the encore showing at noon. BECAUSE. RICHARD II OF MY HEART.

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It's the trailer for David Tennant's Richard II!

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It doesn't reveal anything about the production -- which just started rehearsals last week -- but the central image suits the play, and oh yes, there is a voiceover by MICHAEL MOTHERFUCKING PENNINGTON who is playing John of Gaunt.

Also, the RSC rehearsal diaries continue to be lovely. The ( Read more... )

They've started announcing U.S. locations for the Tennant Richard II broadcast.It's a fairly short list so far -- there are a lot of fairly significant cities that are not on the list -- and the website itself says they're still adding more -- but then, probably the only reason I'm not having a fit of panic is because there's a showing in the ( Read more... )

It's too late to book tickets to see David Tennant tackle Shakespeare's flawed and doomed King Richard II: every bookable seat for both Stratford-upon-Avon and London has already been sold, even though it doesn't open until next autumn ( Read more... )

The short version is that it wasn't perfect but was very very good, and also, it's nice to write about a Shakespeare production that I don't have to tear a new one. Also I am at my parents' house (I know, I know, shut up) and using my ipad because it worked fine at Kzoo, and it really does here too except that the lj app is kind of weird and hard ( 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... )

It is a holiday and I am on vacation and also very tired because I have tons of sleep to catch up on, but I am suffering from conflicting impulses ( Read more... )

"It was very surprising, yes," said Krzysztof Adamiec, the assistant archivist at the London gallery who made the discovery. The relics, he said, at first "just looked like a simple, empty box of cigarettes". He added: "But when I opened it up there were strips of leather and pieces of wood. It was very exciting for me - it's one of the biggest ( Read more... )