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| Posted by: summertheater 06:04 pm EDT 06/21/18 | |
| In reply to: re: "Othello" in the Park - schauspieler 05:32 pm EDT 06/21/18 | |
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| Huge bore. No chemistry between 2 leads. Impossible for me to follow plot. Synopsis in book didn't mean anything to me. Thankfully their next show is without intermission and more accessible to more people to follow. | |
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| re: "Othello" in the Park | |
| Posted by: Seth Christenfeld (tabula-rasa@verizon.net) 10:27 pm EDT 06/21/18 | |
| In reply to: re: "Othello" in the Park - summertheater 06:04 pm EDT 06/21/18 | |
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| Normally, I wouldn't ask this, but you present yourself as an authority on everything: Have you honestly never seen or read Othello before? I ask this sincerely. Seth, really |
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| re: "Othello" in the Park | |
| Posted by: summertheater 11:22 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: "Othello" in the Park - Seth Christenfeld 10:27 pm EDT 06/21/18 | |
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| No, never saw Othello before. I was able to follow Julius Caesar last year very easily, but not Othello this year. I don't think this play is very accessible to the "average" random person off the street. | |
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| re: "Othello" in the Park | |
| Posted by: MikeR 11:30 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: "Othello" in the Park - summertheater 11:22 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| I suspect there aren't too many "'average' random [people] off the street" who are attending Shakespeare in the Park. | |
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| re: "Othello" in the Park | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 05:35 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: "Othello" in the Park - Seth Christenfeld 10:27 pm EDT 06/21/18 | |
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| That light was put out a long time ago. | |
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| re: "Othello" in the Park | |
| Posted by: twocents 10:06 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: "Othello" in the Park - Pokernight 05:35 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| Brief candle, indeed! rotf | |
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| Has anyone seen a great Othello production? | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 10:11 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 10:10 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: "Othello" in the Park - twocents 10:06 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| On stage, live? I haven't. Same thing with Macbeth. | |
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| Macbeth | |
| Posted by: ScriptGirl 01:12 am EDT 06/23/18 | |
| In reply to: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - singleticket 10:10 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| The Almeida Theater Production starring Andrew Scott was pretty damned good. | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 01:26 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - singleticket 10:10 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| Can’t say i’ve seen a satisfying Othello but I did see Macbeth with Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter that was thrilling. Smart, fleet and spooky. It played at the New Haven International Festival. Don’t need to see another. | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:09 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - singleticket 10:10 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| The two Shakespeare tragedies I don't like very much. They're the only two Shakespeare plays I think of as overrated. | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:58 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - AlanScott 01:09 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| I actually prefer the opera, Verdi's "Otello". Saw a great performance at the Met years ago with Placido Domingo, Justino Diaz as Iago and even better, the fabulous singing and a very believable Desdemona of Kiri Te Kanawa. | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:23 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - PlayWiz 01:58 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| I think I like OTHELLO the play more than some of you here, but I do agree that the opera is a great improvement in that the storytelling is much more concise and therefore more powerful, aside from the glorious music. Boito wrote a really superb libretto for that opera. | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 09:16 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - Michael_Portantiere 04:23 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| The film of the opera produced by Cannon is quite good: Domingo, Diaz, and Katia Ricciarelli. | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 12:04 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - singleticket 10:10 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| I recall a forgettable OTHELLO at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A. with James Earl Jones and Jill Clayburgh. It's interesting that it's missing from both of their Wikipedia resumes. Anyway, as I recall, Penelope Allen as Emilia stole the show. | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:06 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - Pokernight 12:04 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| In his autobiography, Jones said it was his least happy experience of his several times playing Othello. | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? | |
| Posted by: Ann 10:11 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - singleticket 10:10 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| I've seen two regional productions that made it one of my favorite Shakespeare plays (though I haven't seen them all). | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? | |
| Posted by: mikem 10:32 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - Ann 10:11 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| I thought the Patrick Stewart Macbeth was really good. | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - YES | |
| Posted by: NYCscribe 02:03 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - mikem 10:32 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| John Douglas Thompson's OTHELLO at Theatre for a New Audience was extraordinary. The director, Arin Arbus, found a way to make the play feel like a high-stakes intimate domestic drama that was set in a grand world. I have never forgotten it and it was the first time I saw Mr. Thompson and became a fan. | |
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| re: Couldn’t agree more! | |
| Last Edit: SuzanneR 07:31 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| Posted by: SuzanneR 07:30 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - YES - NYCscribe 02:03 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| And Juliet Rylance was his Desdemona.... | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - YES | |
| Posted by: singleticket 02:12 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - YES - NYCscribe 02:03 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| That is definitely a production I would have loved to have seen and I'm sorry I missed it. | |
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| re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - YES | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:35 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - YES - singleticket 02:12 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| The Broadway production with James Earl Jones, Christopher Plummer, and Dianne Wiest was quite good overall, especially Plummer, though I remember Jones' manner of speech striking me as maybe a little too affected. | |
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| Same here - though I'm enjoying envisioning him in it nmi | |
| Posted by: Ann 02:39 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone seen a great Othello production? - YES - singleticket 02:12 pm EDT 06/22/18 | |
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