WANT.

I am v pleased that it includes a bit from the recent RSC Histories, but less pleased a) that it's a bit they have on the website anyway so I have seen it, and b) there is no Jonathan Slinger! BOO.

Also, I so very much DO NOT WANT to go to class. *whines and stamps feet*

(ZOMG IT HAS MICHAEL PENNINGTON AS TIMON OF ATHENS ALL IS FORGIVEN.)

As brittle as the glory is the face, by lareinenoire. Gossip Girl, PG. Blair Waldorf goes to see Richard II. Self-analysis ensues. I have never seen the show and don't actually know anything about it other than what's in this fic, but that's okay, because the fic made me happy anyway. Because I kind of lived it. Not Blair's actual situation, because I was at ( Read more... )

Here, have Jon Slinger talking about Richard II. For quite a while.

I have just started it. It will probably just make me go "WHY DID I NOT SEE THIS, WAH."

that if I had gotten to see Jon Slinger as Richard II I would have absolutely died.

I am not sure whether I am talking grand or petit.

I highly, highly recommend, nay, insist that you all go listen to The Duchess of Malfi on the Radio 3 website while you still can (you have until next weekend). Because IT IS AWESOME. Sophie Okonedo is wonderful in the title role, and Jon Slinger is dirtybadwronghot as Ferdinand (his whole performance is like auditory Bad Touching), and Bertie ( Read more... )

Via fuunsaiki at obasc I just read that BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting a production of The Duchess of Malfi on October 12, starring Sophie "you probably know her from Hotel Rwanda but I'll always think of her as the Queen in the Beeb 3 Richard II" Okonedo in the title role, and Jonathan "Richards II and III in the RSC Histories" Slinger as Ferdinand, her creepy, ( Read more... )

The lovely stagbeetle linked me, in the comments of my last post, to this collection of photos from the RSC Histories, many of which are of setup at the Roundhouse, but there are also a lot of backstage photos mostly from Richard II (here is one of Jon Slinger being bewigged and here's one of the fabulous shoes everyone mentioned to me when describing the ( Read more... )

First of all, I wish to squee a bit on the grounds that lareinenoire got me Jonathan Slinger's autograph. He has been the recipient of a lot of transatlantic fangirling from me although I have only seen him in some clips from Richard III on YouTube and one scene in A Knight's Tale in which he has a truly unfortunate medieval mullet; by all accounts, he is a ( Read more... )

Did you know that there is a metric buttload of clips from the latest RSC Richard III on YouTube?

( a study in not being in the vein )

1. Via pecunium: Themes from Carmina Burana. ON BANJOS. It has pictures too but they're not very interesting. But the music is full of awesome.

2. Via oxforddnb_feed: today's ODNB Life of the Day is Anne of Bohemia. Yay for people who get talked about in my dissertation!

3. From the Onion AV Club: 20 pop-cultural obsessions even geekier than Monty Python. This one has ( Read more... )