Comments | angevin2: also, it has John McEnery in it, like all productions ought to.

angevin2

also, it has John McEnery in it, like all productions ought to.

Mar 18, 2009 01:49

I am watching (some of) the Fiona Shaw Richard II right now, in order to figure out which bits of it I want to show for tomorrow's class on Act II. I hadn't seen it in years (mostly because my tape was on loan for ages). Either it is much better than I remember, or I'm just not watching the bits that annoyed me most the first time. Probably it is ( Read more... )

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highfantastical March 18 2009, 11:17:24 UTC

a mafioso kiss of death

OMG. I WANT TO SEE THAT.

Even more reason to try and Track Down a tape somewhere in the Oxford libraries...

ALSO. Stephen Fry!Bushy is just too strange to contemplate. Does not compute.

angevin2 March 18 2009, 16:13:47 UTC

He's not really Stephen Fry, he just looks like him, only with eighties hair. And a not-extremely-convincing English accent (the actor is Welsh and also plays Glendower and Fluellen in the same tetralogy).

But yes, I think you would appreciate this production. It is -- okay, well, basically, Fiona Shaw and Richard Bremmer play Richard and Henry as exes. Who are totally not over each other. Although Shaw describes the relationship in interviews as a close familial one, that is, um, not at all what it looks like.

serrana March 18 2009, 16:15:30 UTC

Aha. I was going to say, surely Stephen Fry would not look as though he were hitting on a woman.

Drunk, I can believe.

angevin2 March 18 2009, 16:22:56 UTC

Hee. Of course the character he was not actually playing is one-third of the Not-At-All-Ambiguously Gay Trio and would probably not hit on a woman either. ;)

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ext_104773 March 18 2009, 12:27:29 UTC

Is Stephen Fry ever *not* wearing a hilarious Regency tie, even if only metaphorically?

angevin2 March 18 2009, 22:31:13 UTC

...no, now that I think of it.

elettaria March 19 2009, 20:51:25 UTC

I think we need a "metaphorical hilarious Regency tie" icon.

speak_me_fair March 18 2009, 20:27:27 UTC

Re: Bushy.

SO MUCH WIN FOR THE PRIORITY ORDER.

angevin2 March 18 2009, 22:31:01 UTC

Hee.

I think you (as our resident minion-enthusiast) would approve of the actors in the Shaw RII. And Julian Rhind-Tutt's ridiculously adorable Aumerle. Who does not wear pink (lucky for him he is a redhead).

speak_me_fair March 18 2009, 22:38:35 UTC

Oh, believe me, I do, I do!

I like being a resident minion-enthusiast. How's the pay?

arcadiaego March 19 2009, 00:00:35 UTC

*pines*

angevin2 March 19 2009, 00:01:54 UTC

I keep meaning to buy an s-video cable, and then I will see if I can digitize my tape.

arcadiaego March 19 2009, 00:03:41 UTC

Hee, it wasn't a hint, I just have nothing else to offer on this subject. :D

angevin2 March 19 2009, 02:58:10 UTC

Oh, I know you weren't. I'm just saying. :)