Comments | deliasherman: As You Like It at BAM

deliasherman

As You Like It at BAM

Jan 22, 2010 00:00

I love the Harvey Theatre at BAM. It is at once state-of-the-art and derelict, with peeling paint, exposed plaster, chipped gilding, comfortable and sensible stadium seating, and really good lights. We saw the Arabic Richard III there, and the Macbeth with Patrick Stewart and something else that escapes me. It seems to me to be a home for ( Read more... )

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anonymous January 22 2010, 05:02:06 UTC

I love your reviews of the plays you're seeing. I don't see nearly as many plays as I'd like, and this is the next best thing.
- Keyan

sovay January 22 2010, 05:18:21 UTC

Sam Mendes (who, in case you're as ignorant as I am, directed American Beauty, among others)

*blink*

I didn't realize he did stage work.

deliasherman January 22 2010, 15:27:29 UTC

He has directed A Winter's Tale and Gypsy with Bernadette Peters and a bunch of other stuff, mostly in England. But he's produced a lot more than that, as artistic director of several English companies. Yeah. Who knew?

lareinenoire January 22 2010, 12:57:31 UTC

This production sounds quite interesting -- was it in London before? I swear I remember hearing about a Mendes As You Like It, although I could be mistaking it for a different production of the same play...

I do love Stephen Dillane in general; he's been wonderfully understated in all the roles where I've seen him on film, so I imagine he must be much the same onstage. Shame about Rosalind, though.

deliasherman January 22 2010, 15:31:15 UTC

Yes. It was at the Old Vic, with the same cast. As I said (or meant to say), Rylance might just have been having an off-night. THere was nothing wrong with her take on Rosalind. She just lacked fire--which she had plenty of as Cressida.

I shall have to keep an eye out for Stephen Dillane in film. I like his face and his style.

lareinenoire January 22 2010, 16:21:02 UTC

Well, he played Thomas Jefferson in the recent HBO miniseries about John Adams, and he did a wonderful job there. My personal favourite is this fairly unknown film from 1998 called Firelight that hits every single one of my nineteenth-century Gothic buttons and is just gorgeous to look at (also one of the most stunning soundtracks I've heard, hands-down). Yes, it's basically a rehash of Jane Eyre, but there are twists and I absolutely love it.

ellen_kushner January 29 2010, 03:12:03 UTC

omfg - he was Jefferson?! I love that man. And will now make it my life's mission to find *Firelight*.....

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