The Histories Cycle, dir. Michael Boyd, at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Disclaimer: These are long and they ramble a lot. I'm taking them more or less verbatim from my notes, though getting rid of bad grammar and things I don't think about when I'm scribbling madly. ;) I'm also adding in proper act and scene numbers so that the descriptions make more sense. Due to the vagaries of train travel -- as I mentioned in the
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I will try to be online at some point this week -- things were a bit mad over the weekend.
It works sort of on a Foucauldian level (signifiers of royal power everywhere) and also as a nice visual reminder of the devaluation of the crown in a post-Ricardian world
Oh wow, that is so true. The crown really is literally passed from one person to another without any question of (divine) authority involved. Well, depending on whose chronicle you're reading, naturally, but the fact that it can be at all questioned is very important.
(Chimes at Midnight, btw, which you ABSOLUTELY DO need to see, totally has a Falstaff/Doll/Hal/Poins OT4 scene.)
It's on the list of things to watch soon -- just looking for a copy. Apparently Lancastrians need orgies too.
More STUFF NOT HAPPENING.
YES!!
also, is wondering about the ramifications of having Richard II's actor turn up as Fluellen (NB: in the ESC cycle, Henry IV became Macmorris, which was hilarious
Clive Wood wasn't in Henry V. I think it was his one night off. ;) But that would be very interesting.
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