I'm glad you were in the Courtyard - I wasn't a big fan of the old theatre, last time I went I was at the back of the stalls and the balcony stuck out so far I had a distinctly letter-box view of the performance!
My own view of Shakespeare is that it's best in the head, and both reading and watching plays feed into that. Every time I see Hamlet it helps to refine the version-in-my-head (even a bad production, because it makes me think about how I'd avoid what I didn't like).
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Shakespeare definately has to be watched, not read. Because I have a very recent love for Shakespeare and it all has to do with David! I was not even a fan back when he did Hamlet live, and then everyone was buying the DVD and kept saying it's awesome. I hesitated, though, as I always imagined it would be boring and hard to understand - especially since English is not my native language. Then we watched it and I was blown away. By David's performance of course, but also by the play itself. I did not know it beforehand, we only had Romeo & Juliet in school, in German of course
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I really got a bit distracted during the play trying to find out how the columns moved. My friend says at one time she saw someone on stage pushing them around. Well, once we have the download we can check it out further! Really hope for it to be David's version *fingers crossed* You think it would help to write to the company about this?
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My own view of Shakespeare is that it's best in the head, and both reading and watching plays feed into that. Every time I see Hamlet it helps to refine the version-in-my-head (even a bad production, because it makes me think about how I'd avoid what I didn't like).
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I need to see a bit more of Shakespeare before I get to any in-my-head versions.
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Shakespeare definately has to be watched, not read.
Because I have a very recent love for Shakespeare and it all has to do with David! I was not even a fan back when he did Hamlet live, and then everyone was buying the DVD and kept saying it's awesome. I hesitated, though, as I always imagined it would be boring and hard to understand - especially since English is not my native language. Then we watched it and I was blown away. By David's performance of course, but also by the play itself. I did not know it beforehand, we only had Romeo & Juliet in school, in German of course ( ... )
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I know a professional actor who was in 'The Merchant of Venice' and we have his version on DVD.
I too loved the staging of 'Much Ado'. I'm not sure how those columns moved because there were no wires attached to them at the top.
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