| "Romeo! Romeo! What's-a matter you, Romeo?" | |
| Posted by: portenopete 05:15 pm EDT 04/16/24 | |
| In reply to: Can we please just get Tom Holland + Rachel Ziegler? - GrumpyMorningBoy 03:34 pm EDT 04/16/24 | |
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| That TWELFTH NIGHT was bloated with too many stars. I don't remember much about Hunt or Sedgwick at all. Bosco was Bosco: not surprising but fine. The memories that continue to linger in my imagination are Max Wright's querulous Andrew Aguecheek and the sight of Paul Rudd emerging naked from the onstage pool displaying a powerful posterior and more hirsute than I expected. (He was also a good Orsino and I'm always a bit sad his strong stage chops go largely unused nowadays.) About what accent Rachel Zegler might use.... I don't know what accents you have in mind. It's been a long time since an American used an English accent for Shakespeare, hasn't it? And anyway: the RP that Gielgud, Olivier et al used was far from what Elizabethans would have spoken in and regional accents have long been used in British productions. (I remember loving to hear a natural Scottish burr from James McAvoy when he did The Scottish Play.) Now if she were to employ an Italian accent, you bet that I'd be in line as soon as tickets go on sale. Extra points for Veneto specifically. Two productions of the same Shakespeare in one year might seem like a lot but God knows in London and environs you can often see four or five Dreams or Hamlets or As You's in a season. And even New York would routinely see the popular titles back in the last century. The first decade (1900-10) saw 20 runs on Broadway (admittedly some were return engagements of the same production but I counted at least four or five different actors in the title role). |
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