Ah, but standing is the way Shakespeare is supposed to be seen...experiencing it the way many of his audience would have. I stood for hours at The Rose in London on a rainy and rather chilly summer afternoon in 2001 and saw the only version of King Lear I've ever loved. No set, very little in the way of props - just the actors and the language. It was immersion in the best way. I've hated reading Shakespeare from that day to this.
We got tickets to two shows that summer in London, one as "commoners" and one as "nobility" which meant when we went back to see MacBeth a few days later, we sat. It just wasn't the same. And though I've seen a few very decent reworkings, I've never been quite as enthralled by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's efforts or Nashville's.
I was gonna meet her and & Tish for Spy museuming in the afternoon, and made plans for lunch with keystricken for before that, nearby. At lunch it suddenly occurred to me that they must know each other so I arranged an intersection of people during the handoff of me from lunch to museuming :)
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We got tickets to two shows that summer in London, one as "commoners" and one as "nobility" which meant when we went back to see MacBeth a few days later, we sat. It just wasn't the same. And though I've seen a few very decent reworkings, I've never been quite as enthralled by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's efforts or Nashville's.
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