Listening again

[azalaisdep]

I finally got round to reviewing that Arkangel production of Romeo and Juliet  which cast David Tennant as Mercutio.

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[sensiblecat]

I saw R&J at the Globe a week or two ago (I've just noticed that Illuminations has done a behind-the-scenes film about it, should be worth a look). I don't care for the play but went because it's one of the set works for my next MA module, and also I wanted to introduce my daughter to the Globe (she's done the play for GCSE

[azalaisdep]

Every time I've been to the Globe I've come away having had some sort of lightbulb moment about how totally different the experience of "seeing a Shakespeare play" might have been in WS's time. First time I went was as a groundling to Julius Caesar, and I remember being struck by a) how many laughs there were in it (since it's always watched with reverent solemnity these days) and b) how utterly different the role of the "mob" feels when the audience is the mob