Comments | angevin2: betwixt damnation and impassioned clay

angevin2

betwixt damnation and impassioned clay

Feb 19, 2011 20:22

Today I saw the Donmar King Lear with Derek Jacobi, via the magic of NT Live, and -- well. HOLY SHIT just about describes it, or at least I still haven't quite formulated all the right words; while the production is not completely and beyond question without flaws, Jacobi's Lear is just as magnificent as everyone says it is. If you have the chance ( Read more... )

theater, shakespeare on film, king lear, tasty jacobi goodness

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skirmish_of_wit February 20 2011, 02:34:15 UTC

I watched the end of Slings and Arrows today, and even just watching the bits of Lear that the show includes has me all weepy. I've only seen the play performed live once, and that was kind of a travesty, and even then the end tore me up.

angevin2 February 20 2011, 02:42:16 UTC

I actually saw William Hutt's last (I think) production of King Lear at Stratford, back in high school -- except I didn't get to see him, because his understudy did the student matinees. I've always been disappointed, retrospectively, about that -- but even the understudy (who normally played Kent) was superb.

BUT. DEREK JACOBI. *flail*

executrix February 20 2011, 03:27:27 UTC

Netflix has McKellan for the RSC, which I bet is not a travesty, and Orson Welles(!) in a cut version.

skirmish_of_wit February 20 2011, 03:33:22 UTC

Oh, I've seen the McKellan, and I own the Olivier. I've just only seen it live once. :)

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a_t_rain February 20 2011, 04:19:58 UTC

I wish NT Live were broadcasting anywhere where I live. (There are no venues in any of the states next to Mississippi, let alone in Mississippi itself.) Alas.

reconditarmonia February 20 2011, 04:27:45 UTC

Ahhh, I want to see it! Lear is my favorite.

possbert February 20 2011, 05:40:58 UTC

It's on here in Perth this afternoon - I would go but I've got the rellies coming for a (late) birthday afternoon tea. Fingers crossed there will be a DVD.

murasaki_1966 February 20 2011, 19:56:45 UTC

Oh POss, you should have ditched the rellies and gone.

possbert February 21 2011, 08:46:27 UTC

Well, I've seen Derek Jacobi live more than I've seen my great niece (God Only Knows, The Tempest, Don John and Hollow Crown), so it wasn't too hard a decision. 8-)

murasaki_1966 February 21 2011, 19:46:43 UTC

Lucky, lucky you. I probably will never see him live. Sigh.

dramaturgy February 20 2011, 06:42:46 UTC

I have basically been a string of "EEEEEEEEEEEE" since seeing it last night.