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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 4, 2018 12:51:18 GMT
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 14, 2018 7:29:03 GMT
Opens in Manc tonight. Transfers to the Lyric 5th October
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 16:13:49 GMT
Been mulling on this for a while. I'm intrigued by it but some slight trepidation having never seen/studied Othello and being not too Shakespeare literate.
I feel like you'd really get it if you knew both pieces well, but not sure how it would translate to people like me. Likely to give it a go though.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 16:19:44 GMT
Been mulling on this for a while. I'm intrigued by it but some slight trepidation having never seen/studied Othello and being not too Shakespeare literate. I feel like you'd really get it if you knew both pieces well, but not sure how it would translate to people like me. Likely to give it a go though. Sort of a Shakespearean Upstairs Downstairs, the king losing the plot whilst there is murderous intrigue amongst the staff. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 16:30:57 GMT
Been mulling on this for a while. I'm intrigued by it but some slight trepidation having never seen/studied Othello and being not too Shakespeare literate. I feel like you'd really get it if you knew both pieces well, but not sure how it would translate to people like me. Likely to give it a go though. ...the king losing the plot whilst there is murderous intrigue amongst the staff. Sounds like the internal monologue of my brain. Sold. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2018 23:38:41 GMT
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Post by Jan on Sept 30, 2018 8:15:51 GMT
Thanks for that review. So it is not really a mash-up as was promised but just short versions of each play done sequentially with the same cast ? No different in concept to John Barton’s RSC production of Titus Andronicus and Two Gentlemen of Verona in one evening. I thought it was going to somehow do the plays simultaneously by combining scenes and characters which would have been far more interesting. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2018 9:30:04 GMT
Thanks for that review. So it is not really a mash-up as was promised but just short versions of each play done sequentially with the same cast ? No different in concept to John Barton’s RSC production of Titus Andronicus and Two Gentlemen of Verona in one evening. I thought it was going to somehow do the plays simultaneously by combining scenes and characters which would have been far more interesting. That was the impression I had too, but no it is just the two played sequentially by the same cast in the same costume. There is a subtle moment of direction involving the handkerchief in Macbeth and a concluding scene from Othello at the end to tie the two together. Although those who know the works better may be able to correct me if I'm wrong. |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Nov 1, 2018 9:47:11 GMT
The edited Othello worked well with the shifted focus on Desdemona and Emilia, the viciousness of the behaviour of their husbands was shocking at times.
The Macbeth worked less well and not as simple to decipher the shifted focus and came over as an introduction to Macbeth.
If interested the £15 front row seats are a steal and last night was further enhanced by having a ‘really nice person in the next seat’
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Post by Backdrifter on Nov 4, 2018 21:01:10 GMT
They're planning Hamletimon of Athens next I gather, then Taming of the Tempest and Richard V (II + III)
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