"I will do such things,--
...What they are, yet I kno'w not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth."
While still not in Iago's (Othello) league, Edmund (King Lear) just made it in my top villains list...
Pretty hard not to come out with some strong emotions when you've just seen a Royal Shakespeare Company performance....oops, take that back, I meant 2 performances, because - probably to clarify that they're not just shakespearean nerds( if such thing exists) - they also pulled off an amazing performance of "Seagull" by Chekhov.
Many stagings of classic playwrights I've seen in the last few years were modernized versions...Some were horrendous, some were quite brilliant, but in most occasions modernizing a play meant stealing a bit(or more) from the original story and substance of the text.
The two performances I saw this week-end were, in my view, as close as it gets to what Shakespeare and Chekhov might have had in mind when writing the plays. This is not to say that they were merely a read-through of the text, with no artistic creation from the director's side. It's just that both shows had such a perfect flow and rhythm (smooth, subtle) that it made the stories as truthful, and touching as I guess they were meant to be...Nothing more, nothing less...
It’s been a week-end to remember....but, more importantly, to repeat....
The terrors of the earth."
While still not in Iago's (Othello) league, Edmund (King Lear) just made it in my top villains list...
Pretty hard not to come out with some strong emotions when you've just seen a Royal Shakespeare Company performance....oops, take that back, I meant 2 performances, because - probably to clarify that they're not just shakespearean nerds( if such thing exists) - they also pulled off an amazing performance of "Seagull" by Chekhov.
Many stagings of classic playwrights I've seen in the last few years were modernized versions...Some were horrendous, some were quite brilliant, but in most occasions modernizing a play meant stealing a bit(or more) from the original story and substance of the text.
The two performances I saw this week-end were, in my view, as close as it gets to what Shakespeare and Chekhov might have had in mind when writing the plays. This is not to say that they were merely a read-through of the text, with no artistic creation from the director's side. It's just that both shows had such a perfect flow and rhythm (smooth, subtle) that it made the stories as truthful, and touching as I guess they were meant to be...Nothing more, nothing less...
It’s been a week-end to remember....but, more importantly, to repeat....
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