| Come in here young man RIGHT NOW! |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|09:19 am] |
I would go outside and do the storm scene from King Lear but my girlfriend would kick my ass. |
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| Dost thou call me fool, boy? |
[Mar. 19th, 2008|03:07 pm] |
This is the best clip I could find of Sir Ian Mckellan and Syvester McCoy as King Lear and his fool. There's a little Ken Dodd in McCoy's performance.
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| Quite a lot of weather we've been having. |
[Oct. 5th, 2007|10:58 am] |
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| And please turn off your cell phones |
[Feb. 18th, 2006|08:48 pm] |
Well Friday was nicely theatrical.
I saw the second installment of London at Midnight at the Bryant Lake Bowl theater. This was a part of a birthday celebration for jinee15 and her friends. London at Midnight is a serialized theatrical drama based off of the classic penny dreadfuls of the turn of the century. They involved stories about grave robbing, Jack the Ripper, and other things. The Bryant Lake shows follows several of the stories and does it with the appropriate amount of camp. It moves quickly and is very very funny. The BBC crowd would appreciate it. I could see the program becoming a tv program in the style and nature of Black Adder and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
I would have attended the rest of the party if it wasn't so bloody cold and I didn't get my new King Lear in the mail. With a work related gift certificate I ordered the Broadway Theater Archive version with James Earl Jones. It ephing ROCKS. Filmed in the seventies in front of a live park audience it has some minor technical issues. You seen cameras once in a while and when Edgar "beggers up" you can see a mike cable around his chest. This is the kind of theater I use to work with, with a much lower budget of course. Free park Shakespeare for the people. A very young Raul Julia plays Edmond and Rene (odo) Auberjonois plays Edgar. Paul Servino plays Gloucester but it's not his best work. I think this is my best Lear yet. |
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| Nuncle Lear Tarry Take the fool with thee. |
[Jun. 19th, 2005|07:51 pm] |
When X-file was still cool, I saw an episode that focused on Scully and her father. He called her Starbuck and she called him Ahab. I guess he used to read Moby Dick to her when she was young. I liked the special bond they had thru literature. I tried to think of some literary characters that we represented at least in my eyes. I have to go with King Lear and his fool. For purely superficial reasons of course. Dad knew his place in the world even after all that he has done, he still continues to help others. After he retired he came back as a consultant at a part time capacity.
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