Actors' Shakespeare Project's production of Henry V

[xiphias]

The first question about any production of Henry V -- any production going back to the first time that Shakespeare's company put it on after he wrote it -- is "how do you deal with the audacity of trying to put an empire-spanning war, including one of the most dramatic battles in English history, on a stage

Comments

[nextian]

Your reviews are this fantastic mixed blessing, because on the one hand you give me a very clear image of the production and you judge it on criteria that I consider meaningful, without ascribing the fault to the actor when it's a directorial choice or etc; on the other hand, I don't live in Boston.

So you've got me really wanting to see this production while being, um, trapped in Chicago. How is that fair?

[beaq]

I'll be in Boston next weekend! Yay! I'm gonna try to get lj-badmagic to go to the show. I've been wanting for a while now to see something you guys have written up.

[xiphias]

If you go, maybe mention that you heard about it from a review written by Lis Riba and her husband? Of "Riba Rambles" and "Bard in Boston"? (Lis is their contact, so I don't think they'd recognize the name "Ian Osmond")

It'd just be nice for them to know that giving us press tickets and press kits actually does them some good, y'know?

[beaq]

Absolutely!

[badmagic]

I'm sold. I'll be there.

[rubynye]

They nail it. The scene is just adorable. I don't know what else I can say about it. Maybe "KAWAII!!!"

Oh good! I love that scene, and not least since I wrote one of my best papers on it.

*makes note of this production*

[xiphias]

Same thing I asked of beaq -- if you do happen to see it, and happen to remember, maybe mention that you heard about this through Lis Riba of Riba Rambles and Bard in Boston? Just letting them know that giving us press tix is actually worth something.