Shakespeare's Globe screenings
Shakespeare's Globe is being even more unhelpful about this than usual, but it looks - according to Playbill - like some cinema screenings have started rolling out, very slowly, and the plan seems to be that they're going to screen both the most recent batch of filmed productions (The Tempest, Macbeth, and Midsummer), and the ones that they never screened last year (Henry V, Twelfth Night, and Taming of the Shrew).
The problem is that the Shakespeare's Globe On Screen website doesn't seem to be up to date: it doesn't list any screenings in my state at all, but on the off chance I went to the website of the cinema that held screenings last time, and it turns out that there's a screening of Henry V, with Jamie Parker, next week. So, you know, thanks for the heads-up, Globe; it's not like I subscribe to your newsletter and follow you on Twitter or anything, oh wait.)
(And of course, I can't go, because I've agreed to some work obligations that evening. This is not a real hardship, I guess, because I've had the DVD for over a year, I think, and have watched it several times (…including once last month). But I probably would have bought a ticket just to support the enterprise, if I'd known it was happening! And while I also have the DVD for Twelfth Night, I deliberately chose to wait on the DVDs for Midsummer and The Tempest, even though I was standing in the Globe gift shop in July, so I would really appreciate some information about if and when those screenings might actually be happening. And I want to see the Eve Best-directed Macbeth, as well, even though I didn't stand there weighing the DVD in my hands as I did with the others…)
I mean, I want to give you my money, Globe. Why are you making this so difficult for me to do?
The problem is that the Shakespeare's Globe On Screen website doesn't seem to be up to date: it doesn't list any screenings in my state at all, but on the off chance I went to the website of the cinema that held screenings last time, and it turns out that there's a screening of Henry V, with Jamie Parker, next week. So, you know, thanks for the heads-up, Globe; it's not like I subscribe to your newsletter and follow you on Twitter or anything, oh wait.)
(And of course, I can't go, because I've agreed to some work obligations that evening. This is not a real hardship, I guess, because I've had the DVD for over a year, I think, and have watched it several times (…including once last month). But I probably would have bought a ticket just to support the enterprise, if I'd known it was happening! And while I also have the DVD for Twelfth Night, I deliberately chose to wait on the DVDs for Midsummer and The Tempest, even though I was standing in the Globe gift shop in July, so I would really appreciate some information about if and when those screenings might actually be happening. And I want to see the Eve Best-directed Macbeth, as well, even though I didn't stand there weighing the DVD in my hands as I did with the others…)
I mean, I want to give you my money, Globe. Why are you making this so difficult for me to do?