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09 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by la Clarina in Theatre

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Alec Guinness, Baliol Holloway, Christopher Plummer, David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Ian McKellen, John Barrymore, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, Mark Rylance, Richard III, William Shakespeare

Ten of them – because, having begun my Shakespeare Year yesterday with a talk about Shakespearean villains, I’m in this kind of mood…

David Garrick

David Garrick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kean

Edmund Kean

Baliol Holloway

Baliol Holloway

 

John Barrymore

John Barrymore

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

ChPlummer

Christopher Plummer

 

Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen

Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

Mark Rylance

Mark Rylance

King Lear for optimists

30 Thursday Jul 2015

Posted by la Clarina in History, Stories, Theatre

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Charles Macready, David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Happy ending, King Lear, Nahum Tate, Restoration, William Shakespeare

TatePlayImagine you are in England in 1660. Imagine theatres opening again after eighteen years of civil war and general bleakness. Imagine to crave only fun, and music, and gaiety…

And now imagine to find yourself with Shakespeare’s works. And yes, yes – Elizabethan golden age and all that, but it’s been sixty, seventy years, and taste changes. Shakespeare, who was going out of fashion during the last years of his life, by now is mostly the relic of another, cruder era. And mind: the stories are great – if a tad glum – and the poetry has its beauties: if only it weren’t all so desperately old-fashioned, if only it were a little cheerier…But this can be remedied, can’t it? How hard can it be to rewrite the rusty old things? Continue reading →

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