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If you can get to see Ralph Fiennes playing Macbeth, do it! He's scarily intense and the whole thing is quite terrifying.
Also, a film called Femmes, with the always reliable gorgeous George Mackay. Dark as fuck. #Film#Theatre#Shakespeare https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20114686/
The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground. #OTD in 1613.
A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and stayed open until the London theatre closures of 1642. As well as plays by Shakespeare, early works by Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher were first performed here. via @Wikipedia
My reading of Demetrius' and Chiron's execution scene from Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" in early 17th century pronunciation. I used a rather more innovative accent for Publius than for Titus.
People: "Stuff is so violent these days, we didn't use to have such gratuitous violence in entertainment"
A new documentary, "Grand Theft Hamlet," is filmed within Grand Theft Auto Online, and tells the story of the first staged production of a Shakespeare play in a multiplayer online video game. "The doc is an impressive piece of machinima, a niche but increasingly utilized method of filmmaking that exclusively utilizes in-game graphics to create a cinematic experience," writes Allegra Frank for Daily Beast. Here's the full story (may be paywalled).
In #TheTempest by #Shakespeare, I always imagined Ariel as gendered masculine. It kind of fits with how the women in the play don't really do a lot: Sycorax flees, then dies; Miranda empathizes with people and gets manipulated into falling in love. Whereas the men are pretty active, from Prospero obviously to even the Boatswain, who gets to chew out the king while trying to save the ship.
The #RSC seems to do a lot of #Shakespeare. Appears fixated on it in fact. Feels like a missed opportunity to do more modern stuff that speaks more to people's lives today.
Though in Shakespeare, Cordelia dies before her father King Lear, in the original British legend she outlives him and becomes Britain's ruler. Cordelia is a warrior queen, leading armies. Sadly, she is overthrown by her two nephews, who resent being ruled by a woman.