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Post by partytentdown on Mar 27, 2019 15:56:35 GMT
I found this intriguing... Anyone know what happened?
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Post by couldileaveyou on Mar 27, 2019 16:03:29 GMT
Doesn't the legend say that he saw his father's ghost?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 16:17:06 GMT
Yeah, but he later clarified that when he said he saw his father's ghost, he didn't mean it literally.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 27, 2019 16:26:26 GMT
Oh, ok. Sure!
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Post by Phantom of London on Mar 27, 2019 17:05:40 GMT
One of the greatest screen actors of all time and a serial Oscar winner and winner of no less than 3 Oscars (My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln) he didn’t even win one for Gangs of New York, which I thought he was fantastic in. However he couldn’t do the stage, didn’t understand it and had poor understand how to use it, he let the stage swallow him and spit him out, only as the stage can. However this is no surprise as he picked the hardest role in theatre as the titular Hamlet, which is the absolute gold standard in acting. I am sure he could go back on stage in a lesser role and triumph, but only if he can put Hamlet behind him.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 17:14:22 GMT
In Sir Richard Eyre's diaries it states that Daniel Day Lewis saw his father's ghost on stage.
He did, however and as pointed out above, come out eventually (years later) and say that he didn't mean literal but never really explained it further as far as I can remember.
My own opinion is that DDL is so intense in role that the possibility of hallucinations isn't far fetch and he changed his story to avoid embarrassment.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 18:57:56 GMT
No stamina. If little Jack Shalloo could handle the role, there's no reason DDL couldn't.
Amateur.
Oh and he's not that great an actor either and I am unanimous in that.
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Post by profquatermass on Mar 27, 2019 19:37:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 19:53:34 GMT
It was Charleson’s last yes he died I think within months of it ending, and was off sick periodically throughout (understandably) the NT exhibition on the archives in the Lyttleon Lounge recently had a SM report that stated he returned to the stage “to a standing ovation” in one of his final performances- the whole entry was quite moving I’ll try and find the picture |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 19:56:54 GMT
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Post by learfan on Mar 27, 2019 20:40:16 GMT
I saw it. DDL was pretty good as i recall. Judi Dench less so, not her part. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 21:25:43 GMT
I saw it. DDL was pretty good as i recall. Judi Dench less so, not her part. The reviews were not as critical for DDL as some remember. Some, certainly, said he was a poor choice of casting but others, and respected too, said he showed great promise for someone not versed in Shakespearen tradition or background. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 22:32:19 GMT
I never knew this happened. Now I want to see it for all evenings. Just a book of them. I’d be in heaven. Does such a thing exist? |
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Post by peggs on Mar 27, 2019 23:13:59 GMT
Individually they're in the archives for each play I guess?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2019 9:05:08 GMT
Yes- you can go to the archives and ask to see the files for that production (or any!) and read the SM reports. Obviously 90% of them will be nothing of interest, but you might get the odd 'Dam Judi fell on her arse tonight' to liven it up.
The SM 'Bible' copies of the script are also really interesting for a given production as they give an additional insight into the show, how it's put on etc etc.
As ever the NT archive is more than happy for anyone to make and appointment to look at records- you don't need to be doing research, you can just fancy a nosy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2019 9:06:39 GMT
So for context in that exhibition, they asked a variety of people connected to the NT to pick an item from the archives that meant something/they liked/they wanted the public to see, so each one had a bit of personal context as to why.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 21:25:48 GMT
 And nipped up to the exhibition today to snap this of the accompanying explanation for choosing the SM report above! |
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Post by sf on Mar 30, 2019 21:37:47 GMT
I saw Ian Charleson's Hamlet right around that time (November 1989) - I'd just gone into the sixth form, I was doing English Literature at A-level, and Hamlet was one of the set texts. I don't remember much about the production other than that he was thrilling in it, and that I was very shocked when he died a few weeks later and I learned how ill he must have been when I saw him.
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Post by talkingheads on Mar 31, 2019 17:47:06 GMT
I seem to be in a minority of one my I've always found DDL to be the most overrated, pretentious actor out there. At the end of the day acting is a job no more no less. All this refusing to break character rubbish
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Post by horton on Apr 1, 2019 11:08:20 GMT
I saw the DDL 'Hamlet'- it was slow, drab and monotonous. I'm pretty certain Michael Bryant was the best thing in it as Polonius?
I had some involvement with DDL when he played Dracula. He was very- how shall I put it- focused...
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