Shakespeare's Globe screenings

[tempestsarekind]

Shakespeare's Globe is being even more unhelpful about this than usual, but it looks - according to Playbill - like some cinema screenings have started rolling out, very slowly, and the plan seems to be that they're going to screen both the most recent batch of filmed productions (The Tempest, Macbeth, and Midsummer), and the ones that they never

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[angevin2]

I am SO ANGRY because the theater that's showing them in my area (which is also not listed on the Globe On Screen website, although that might be the theater's fault, idk) has in its infinite wisdom scheduled them ALL ON TUESDAY NIGHTS. DURING MY NIGHT CLASS. I am the MOST LOYAL VIEWER IN ST. LOUIS (I have been to EVERY SCREENING SINCE THEY STARTED DOING THEM) and I CANNOT GO TO THEM and I am REALLY UPSET.

I have offered my students extra credit if they bring me a ticket stub and a 200-word review, but they didn't seem very enthusiastic even though they can get up to 60 points of extra credit if they go to all five plus the RSC Two Gentlemen of Verona.

[tempestsarekind]

UGH, I'm so sorry, that sucks!

Also, boo to your students. Like, I can understand not wanting to pay $15 a pop (that's how much the screenings cost here, anyway) for the whole set, but going to one with some friends would be so fun! And then you get extra credit! This seems like a very nice and totally magnanimous thing for you to offer.

I'm sad I missed 2GV - it was this weekend, and I had the school camping trip - because I've never actually seen the play, and I'm not sure I'll have many opportunities. Ah well.

[angevin2]

Well, the RSC releases DVDs of their productions eventually, or at least they did with Richard II and I dunno if they're going to do it with all of the ones they show or not, but I have heard rumors of Doran wanting to release the whole history cycle on DVD, and I haven't really looked for info about a DVD release for Two Gents (anyway, the production is still running). But I'd buy it if it came out, in case I ever wanted to teach the play -- it was a pretty good production, although it's a weird play and the girls are way too cool to have such awful (for Julia) and insipid (for Silvia) boyfriends.

Also, when I handed out the instructions for the extra credit assignment one of my students looked at me disgustedly and said "Can't we just pay you $15 for the extra credit?" WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER.

[tempestsarekind]

"Can't we just pay you $15 for the extra credit?"

THE WORST. That is THE WORST.

As for Julia and Silvia: I know. I wrote about Proteus in the dissertation because he actually makes a point that is key to how I see Shakespearean comedy ("And he wants wit that wants resolved will / To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better"), in that my theory is all about how the characters make comedy happen through stubborn cleverness and hope (aka all of my Pond feelings as well) - but it was very trying to have Proteus be the one who says this, since he is terrible. At least with Valentine I could give him a little bit of the benefit of the doubt and say that he's just been totally disillusioned by betrayal, but there is no good side to Proteus.

[angevin2]

You can buy the DVD though! It's already screened in the UK and they tend to release the DVDs right away.

[tempestsarekind]

This is true! I almost bought the DVD of Midsummer while I was in the Globe gift shop in July, but didn't have room in my suitcase for that *and* the books I wanted to buy before I left. :)