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"I didn't really know my caesura from my iambic"
Heh.
You all may have seen this already, but somehow it had never come across my radar - a video podcast with Greg Doran from 2013 (possibly - that's the upload date, anyway), where he takes some actors from the Oxford University Drama Society through the prologue of Romeo and Juliet:
Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin' links, romeo and julietrandom R&J post
Wow, I just managed to make myself really sad about the way that both Romeo and Juliet talk explicitly about how little time they've been married before Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment (Romeo cries out that he is "an hour but married"; Juliet calls herself Romeo's "three-hours' wife") - because that's why it's so important that Romeo has to ( Read more... )palm to palm &c.
Ever since watching the R&J episode of Shakespeare Uncovered, I've wondered what Jade Anouka was like as Juliet. Turns out that in creating their new Teach Shakespeare website, Shakespeare's Globe posted a handful of - snowy - clips from their 2013 Playing Shakespeare production. Here you can see the lovers' sonnet ( Read more... )also
I just bought my ticket for the screening of Branagh's Romeo and Juliet. I'm still kind of miffed about the whole Jacobi-playing-Mercutio thing, and I don't really get why he seems to have filmed the production in black-and-white, but Romeo and Juliet are my babies, so I really have little choice but to go ( Read more... )noooo why
So Branagh is doing Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale at the Garrick Theatre in London, alongside Terrence Rattigan's Harlequinade, which is apparently a play about a company that tries to put on Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale. I like the idea of this grouping, and a lot of the casting sounds really amazing (Dame Judi Dench as Paulina ( Read more... )heartbroken about past events
Reading an interview with Gugu Mbatha-Raw pulled up this tidbit:
At RADA, Gugu’s contemporaries included Ben Whishaw, Tom Hiddleston and Andrea Riseborough, all former nominees for the Rising Star gong. Shortly after graduation, she was Juliet to Andrew Garfield’s Romeo at the Manchester Royal Exchange, when they were both 22.Well, this is the ( Read more... )eeeee yay!
The Globe is doing Richard II next year ( Read more... )hmph.
There is a wrong answer in this Guardian quiz, and it's really annoying me:
Quiz - which Shakespeare characters speak these lines about love?http://www.theguardian.com/stage/quiz/2014/sep/30/quiz-shakespeare-characters-lines-loveRead more... )basically mining Twitter for "Shakespeare's birthday" links
King Lear podcasts from the National Theatre ( Read more... )