My life is just boring is all, so I haven't felt very inspired to update. BUT. There is INTERESTING SHAKESPEARE-RELATED NEWS that you may like, so I thought I'd post:

1. There's going to be a second season of The Hollow Crown, covering the Henry VIs and Richard III! I don't know if it's going to be released under that title or not, but it's the ( Read more... )

I wrote these for someone I met on tumblr who saw and loved the production but was previously unfamiliar with the play, and thought I might share them because I didn't write a proper review. It's not even that I am lazy or didn't have enough to say; I just loved the production so much and thought it was so close to my perfect production that there ( Read more... )

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.

I CANNOT STOP WATCHING THIS

Five glorious minutes of David Tennant deposition scene goodness.

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They are pretty glowing, thus far.

From the Guardian (4/5 stars):

Tennant's strengths, as we know from his Hamlet, are a capacity for quicksilver thought and an almost boyish vulnerability. And, even if he might do more to convey the patterned lyricism of the language, what he brings out excellently is the fact that Richard only learns to value ( Read more... )

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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... )