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| Bernhardt/Hamlet/Rebeck Spoilers | |
| Posted by: stan 07:56 pm EDT 09/02/18 | |
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| I didn't hate it, but it was all over the place and more annoying than good. The play deals with Bernhardt wanting to rewrite Hamlet because she can't play it as written -- of course it was the French translation of Hamlet to start with -- whose? Anyway, perhaps McTeer is a tremendously gifted actor and can play a famous actress who really can't do Shakespeare, or (as I think) McTeer (most of whose work I admire) can't do Shakespeare??? Bernhardt's Hamlet was well received by the audiences but not by many critics -- which may be continued by this version. | |
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| McTeer & Shakespeare | |
| Posted by: ScriptGirl 07:01 am EDT 09/04/18 | |
| In reply to: Bernhardt/Hamlet/Rebeck Spoilers - stan 07:56 pm EDT 09/02/18 | |
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| But McTeer did Shakespeare quite well when she appeared as another male character, Petruchio, in The Taming of the Shrew in the park. | |
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| re: McTeer & Shakespeare | |
| Last Edit: MockingbirdGirl 08:44 am EDT 09/04/18 | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 08:43 am EDT 09/04/18 | |
| In reply to: McTeer & Shakespeare - ScriptGirl 07:01 am EDT 09/04/18 | |
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| She's actually played Petruchio twice, as well as appearing in A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It with the RSC and as Beatrice opposite Mark Rylance's Benedick in the West End. The idea that she can't "do Shakespeare" is laughable, and for my money, makes the rest of the supposed "review" suspect. | |
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| re: McTeer & Shakespeare | |
| Posted by: stan 02:52 pm EDT 09/04/18 | |
| In reply to: re: McTeer & Shakespeare - MockingbirdGirl 08:43 am EDT 09/04/18 | |
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| Her Petruchio was also, to me, bland. I think she might make a good Kate. Also, Mockingbird, I think you shouldn't cast dispersions until you see the show. Let's leave it as I didn't like this production. I'd also like to point out that the sound engineering was poor (I sat in 1st row mezz) -- too loud. | |
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| re: McTeer & Shakespeare | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 03:16 pm EDT 09/04/18 | |
| In reply to: re: McTeer & Shakespeare - stan 02:52 pm EDT 09/04/18 | |
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| Whether you liked the production or what the sound engineering was like is irrelevant -- I am taking issue with the specific claim that McTeer can't "do Shakespeare," despite having done so for the RSC, the Globe, and a Mark Rylance commercial production. Also, the word you are looking for is 'aspersions.' |
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| re: McTeer & Shakespeare | |
| Posted by: stan 05:29 pm EDT 09/04/18 | |
| In reply to: re: McTeer & Shakespeare - MockingbirdGirl 03:16 pm EDT 09/04/18 | |
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| Mockingbird, you're on a tear -- castigating a lowly theater goer -- reading your second hand posts about McTeer's abilities (did you see her do any of these Shakespeare plays that starred the actress?) and your defense of Theresa Rebeck below makes me think that you're a shill. Maybe you're Theresa Rebeck? You seem to protest too much. | |
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| re: McTeer & Shakespeare | |
| Last Edit: MockingbirdGirl 08:30 pm EDT 09/04/18 | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 08:29 pm EDT 09/04/18 | |
| In reply to: re: McTeer & Shakespeare - stan 05:29 pm EDT 09/04/18 | |
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| (did you see her do any of these Shakespeare plays that starred the actress?) Yes. Any other witless straw-clutching you'd like to attempt? |
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| re: Bernhardt/Hamlet/Rebeck Spoilers | |
| Posted by: robert_j 09:00 pm EDT 09/02/18 | |
| In reply to: Bernhardt/Hamlet/Rebeck Spoilers - stan 07:56 pm EDT 09/02/18 | |
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| I saw this last night. I liked it well enough, but it left me wanting to see Janet McTeer in Hamlet instead of this. It felt, cynically, like the play was a way of letting casual audiences get a taste of Hamlet without making them sit through the whole thing. I was never bored during the play -- it just did not feel substantial. And I did not understand why the play took a left turn to focus on a completely different play at the end of the second act. It weighed things down, and it also meant that, bafflingly, we never got the payoff of seeing McTeer do Hamlet (?!) because the focus shifts to this other play instead. It would have been so easy to conclude the play with a monologue from Hamlet on opening night. But Rebeck seems to like to leave things unfinished. Scenes frequently just end without resolving -- and the play does too. It makes it sound like I did not enjoy the play, but it is actually a great production. The performances are good, the sets are astounding, and the play itself is diverting enough in the moment. It just could have been so much more. (That said, I liked it way more than Straight White Men, which I saw earlier this week, and the less said about the better.) |
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