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Post by Jan on Jul 22, 2020 14:24:36 GMT
Same rules as the Gender Blind Shakespeare quiz. I can only think of one answer for each but probably there are others.
1) Prospero & Ariel
2) Lear & Fool
3) Othello & Falstaff
4) Othello & Shylock
5) Rosalind & Celia
6) Helena & Helena
7) Coriolanus & Dr Caius
8) Titus Andronicus & Aguecheek
9) Hamlet & Toby Belch
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 22, 2020 16:42:57 GMT
1 is SRB
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Post by David J on Jul 22, 2020 18:12:23 GMT
1. Simon Russel Beale
2. Kathryn Hunter
3. Orson Welles (if the previous rules didn’t apply)
4. Patrick Stewart
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Post by Jan on Jul 22, 2020 18:16:56 GMT
1. Simon Russel Beale 2. Kathryn Hunter 3. Orson Welles (if the previous rules didn’t apply) 4. Patrick Stewart Previous rules apply. I didn't know about Kathryn Hunter - there is another high-profile answer for that one. 1) Simon Russell Beale 2) Kathryn Hunter (not the actor I was thinking of, there is another) 3) 4) Patrick Stewart 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jul 22, 2020 18:26:34 GMT
8) David Bradley
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jul 22, 2020 18:29:17 GMT
1. Simon Russel Beale 2. Kathryn Hunter 3. Orson Welles (if the previous rules didn’t apply) 4. Patrick Stewart Previous rules apply. I didn't know about Kathryn Hunter - there is another high-profile answer for that one. 1) Simon Russell Beale 2) Kathryn Hunter (not the actor I was thinking of, there is another) 3) 4) Patrick Stewart 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) Antony Sher? |
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Post by Jan on Jul 22, 2020 18:58:43 GMT
You're on fire !
1) Simon Russell Beale
2) Kathryn Hunter or Antony Sher
3)
4) Patrick Stewart
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8) David Bradley
9)
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 22, 2020 19:03:27 GMT
5 is Sophie Thompson, I think...
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 22, 2020 19:09:04 GMT
and 9 is Olivier (I know he is no longer alive - but he certainly did this combination!)
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 22, 2020 19:41:27 GMT
9 - (and this took some digging up) is McKellen. Not natural casting for Belch...
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 22, 2020 19:45:42 GMT
7 - and another surprising one - is Greg Hicks. I had to go through those who have played Coriolanus over the past few decades and see if they had also done Merry Wives!!
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Post by Jan on Jul 23, 2020 6:27:56 GMT
Yes I think you're right about Sophie Thompson, it wasn't the one I was thinking of though.
(3) and (6) are very well known leading actors. The Helenas are in All's Well and Midsummer Night's Dream of course.
1) Simon Russell Beale
2) Kathryn Hunter or Antony Sher
3)
4) Patrick Stewart
5) Sophie Thompson (there is another though)
6)
7) Greg Hicks
8) David Bradley
9) Ian McKellen
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Jul 23, 2020 7:16:01 GMT
5) Fiona Shaw
6) Harriet Walter
Back to the eighties for this couple!
Struggling with 3).
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Post by Jan on Jul 23, 2020 7:21:50 GMT
Yes very good. (3) is more recent than the 1980s, big star stage actor, played Othello twice I think actually.
1) Simon Russell Beale
2) Kathryn Hunter or Antony Sher
3)
4) Patrick Stewart
5) Sophie Thompson or Fiona Shaw
6) Harriet Walter
7) Greg Hicks
8) David Bradley
9) Ian McKellen
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Jul 23, 2020 7:29:38 GMT
3) Michael Gambon.
Had to work out who was old enough and google provided the rest. 1968 is before my theatregoing time.
EDIT: more recent you say? Maybe a different one then. I don’t think Lenny Henry’s played Falstaff (who was my first thought).
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Post by Jan on Jul 23, 2020 7:36:28 GMT
Gambon played Othello twice, most recently in 1990 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre I think directed by Ayckbourn. I think it was the last "blackface" performance of Othello in UK. Surprising it was so recent, I think you have to go back a further decade for another.
1) Simon Russell Beale
2) Kathryn Hunter or Antony Sher
3) Michael Gambon
4) Patrick Stewart
5) Sophie Thompson or Fiona Shaw
6) Harriet Walter
7) Greg Hicks
8) David Bradley
9) Ian McKellen
So, I lose this one, you defeated me. There are some great pairings involving dead actors - the actor who played both Prince Hal and Falstaff for example - well, there are two answers actually.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Jul 23, 2020 7:41:13 GMT
Gambon played Othello twice, most recently in 1990 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre I think directed by Ayckbourn. I think it was the last "blackface" performance of Othello in UK. Surprising it was so recent, I think you have to go back a further decade for another. 1) Simon Russell Beale 2) Kathryn Hunter or Antony Sher 3) Michael Gambon 4) Patrick Stewart 5) Sophie Thompson or Fiona Shaw 6) Harriet Walter 7) Greg Hicks 8) David Bradley 9) Ian McKellen So, I lose this one, you defeated me. There are some great pairings involving dead actors - the actor who played both Prince Hal and Falstaff for example - well, there are two answers actually. Ah, I thought the Ayckbourn one had been canned, surprised it went ahead. One of the Hal/Falstaff pairings will be Ralph Richardson, who doesn’t strike me as obvious casting for the latter but seems to have been lauded for it. |
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 23, 2020 9:31:37 GMT
The Scarborough production of Othello did indeed go ahead, running from 26 September to 27 October 1990, with opening night on 2 October. It was an earlier West End production that was shelved, which may be where the confusion arose.
It was the first and only time Ayckbourn has directed Shakespeare. Apart from Michael Gambon, the cast also included Claire Skinner and Ken Stott.
(Source: alanayckbourn.net)
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Post by Jan on Jul 23, 2020 14:26:29 GMT
Gambon played Othello twice, most recently in 1990 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre I think directed by Ayckbourn. I think it was the last "blackface" performance of Othello in UK. Surprising it was so recent, I think you have to go back a further decade for another. 1) Simon Russell Beale 2) Kathryn Hunter or Antony Sher 3) Michael Gambon 4) Patrick Stewart 5) Sophie Thompson or Fiona Shaw 6) Harriet Walter 7) Greg Hicks 8) David Bradley 9) Ian McKellen So, I lose this one, you defeated me. There are some great pairings involving dead actors - the actor who played both Prince Hal and Falstaff for example - well, there are two answers actually. Ah, I thought the Ayckbourn one had been canned, surprised it went ahead. One of the Hal/Falstaff pairings will be Ralph Richardson, who doesn’t strike me as obvious casting for the latter but seems to have been lauded for it. The other Falstaff/Hal actor was Gerard Murphy. Hard to tell with actors of past generations, Richardson cast as Falstaff doesn’t sound to me as unlikely as Macbeth which he played to less acclaim. I saw him in his last play - he was struggling with the lines a bit but there were a couple of very strange powerful moments which hinted at what he must have been like at the height of his powers. In the production of Henry IV in which Richardson played Falstaff, Olivier played Hotspur in Part I then an ancient Justice Shallow in Part II constantly batting away invisible bees - what an old ham. |
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