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Post by MsPoet on Jan 12, 2003 14:42:28 GMT -5
Ms. Poet: I can get a little jaded with literature and plays that are over-exposed and produced, too. But there's just something about R&J and the endless possibility for its interpretation and re-interpretation that just gets me. I'm aware that those things are possible for many other things, but there's just something about R&J that refuses to let me leave it alone. Oh, I get what you're saying, yes.  R&J is open to many interpretations plus I think the theme speaks to many different groups of people across the world. But my whole life including when I saw part of it on The Brady Bunch (lol, yes) I just felt like I'd seen it done over and over already. Plus, I haven't seen a production of it I love...they used to show us the Olivia Hussey version in school, which was ok.......I saw Megan Follows (ie Anne of Green Gables) onstage, but that production left me wanting also. And I loved Claire Danes in MSCL so I was excited to see Baz Lurhman's R&J movie, but that movie left me dizzy afterwards (I really enjoyed Moulin Rouge however---maybe because I  Ewan..who knows.) I had to read Macbeth and Hamlet and AMSND in high school....that was it for the plays. Donna |
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Post by lizifer on Jan 12, 2003 15:55:47 GMT -5
To Liz: Macbeth was really cool. Gosh, you got me thinking about our dear Mr. Coulson delivering that "Tomorrow" speech. I can see him pacing across the stage now: "I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been my senses would have cooled to hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair would, at a dismal treatise, rouse and stir as life were in't. I have supped full with horrors. Direness, familiar to my slaugterous thoughts cannot once start me... There would have been time for such a word. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day-- to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle. Life is but a walking shadow-- a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." i'd love to see him do that! lets hope he does macbeth in theatre sometime in the future i'd love to see him do ANYTHING in theatre, hes got a great stage presence! and angela, that was pretty much the reaction the teacher got from our class when he walked out with a book! |
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Post by ausaims on Jan 12, 2003 16:53:32 GMT -5
"Macbeth" and "Julius Caesar" were my favourite Shakespeare plays. Although we also studied "Much Ado about Nothing" in my arts degree, which I quite enjoyed. The character of Beatrice was pretty cool- she had some of the best lines of the play!!
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Post by Sampaguita on Jan 24, 2003 3:46:08 GMT -5
Yet another Romeo & Juliet production question for Liz:
I'm curious about both the "Lark" scene and the "balcony" scene.
In the balcony scene, when she asks "What man art thou, thus bescreened in night, so stumblest on my council"-- how was it staged. You hinted that this was a "modern" production (the word "boxers" did it) so I'm a little curious how this played out. Was he directly below her and against the wall? Was there even a balcony? etc...
And for the "lark" scene, when the lights came up, were they still in the bed or was he standing by the window.
My purpose in asking this is to get some ideas for stage-blocking my friends' students. Oh and if you could throw in some stuff about their costuming, that would be great.
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Post by lizifer on Jan 24, 2003 10:25:16 GMT -5
sampaguita, i'm in a rush now but i will come back and answer ur questions in more detail later but for now a few quick answers... yes there was a balcony they were still in the bed more details on constuming and set later |
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Post by lizifer on Jan 24, 2003 17:51:29 GMT -5
ok heres what i can remember... there was a proper balcony, it was small but it was still there. juliet was up there romeo was kinda centre stage during the scene. the lark scene, they were in bed as the scene opened. it was a modern version, judging by the clothing i'd say 60s or 70s setting, the usual shirts and pants but the style suggested that kinda era. if u have any other questions just ask, if i think of anything else i'll let u know |
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R&J is open to many interpretations plus I think the theme speaks to many different groups of people across the world. But my whole life including when I saw part of it on The Brady Bunch (lol, yes) I just felt like I'd seen it done over and over already. Plus, I haven't seen a production of it I love...they used to show us the Olivia Hussey version in school, which was ok.......I saw Megan Follows (ie Anne of Green Gables) onstage, but that production left me wanting also. And I loved Claire Danes in MSCL so I was excited to see Baz Lurhman's R&J movie, but that movie left me dizzy afterwards (I really enjoyed Moulin Rouge however---maybe because I 
Ewan..who knows.)
