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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 12:10:39 GMT
for putting me off Hamlet for nearly a decade (Hiddles want to have a word?) Thought you said, "putting me off" not "getting me off with"? hahaha it's an easy mistake to make....(though for the record, Hiddles doesn't do much for me...) |
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 26, 2017 12:29:23 GMT
Honourable mention here to RADA tutors for putting me off Hamlet for nearly a decade (Hiddles want to have a word?) and to The Wooster Group for having the honour of the first play I fell asleep in (also Hamlet) which I feel was a cardinal theatrical sin, but it was hella hot in there, and we'd got the 6am Eurostar and their version is about 45 minutes longer than the average Hamlet....zzzzz I wish I'd fallen asleep during Troilus and Cressida... |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 26, 2017 13:15:53 GMT
Honourable mention here to RADA tutors for putting me off Hamlet for nearly a decade (Hiddles want to have a word?) and to The Wooster Group for having the honour of the first play I fell asleep in (also Hamlet) which I feel was a cardinal theatrical sin, but it was hella hot in there, and we'd got the 6am Eurostar and their version is about 45 minutes longer than the average Hamlet....zzzzz I wish I'd fallen asleep during Troilus and Cressida... Don't get me started on The Wooster Group. I haven't got enough pills to calm me down |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 16:26:06 GMT
I wish I'd fallen asleep during Troilus and Cressida... Don't get me started on The Wooster Group. I haven't got enough pills to calm me down You know how there are some plays/directors/companies that you think 'hey with time maybe it's time to give them another go?' It's been 10 years I haven't felt the urge. I will say their Hamlet was a most excellent ginger though. Which is something I look for in a production obviously. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 17:14:01 GMT
The Wooster Group are a prime example of what happens when theatre is unsubsidised. They have had little to push them out of their sixties mindset and so audiences are given a sclerotic sense of what theatre can be and a separation between more experimental and commercial theatre that does not exist, because of the funding system, in the UK.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 16:44:35 GMT
Growing up near Stratford-upon-Avon we did not study any Shakespeare! Only play I recall was J B Priestley's When we are Married which I enjoyed and Priestley had lived in village near Stratford. Looking at RSC website re teaching of Shakey cdn2.rsc.org.uk/sitefinity/education-pdfs/articles-and-reports/rsc-education-history-of-teaching-shakespeare.pdf?sfvrsn=2"Up until (and for many people, even after) the introduction of Shakespeare as the only compulsory author on the National Curriculum in the early 1990s, the view that Shakespeare was not for everyone remained widely held. Shakespeare was standard fare for independent and grammar school pupils, but more often than not avoided in Secondary Moderns and Comprehensives" (I went to Sec Modern) Re Wooster Group Troilus & Cressida at the RSC - I actually liked it ......... |
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Post by lynette on Aug 27, 2017 17:51:20 GMT
Never heard of the Wooster Group. Enlighten me.
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