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Post by Tim of Raventree on May 19, 2018 7:38:14 GMT
Apologies for slacking on this. I want to get back on it soon.
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Post by Tim of Raventree on May 26, 2018 8:39:57 GMT
The BBC are showing an adaptation of King Lear on Monday, though I'm not sure if those outside the UK would be able to access it.
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Post by The Raven on May 27, 2018 20:10:01 GMT
Yeah, I'm also looking forward to it. Top notch cast. Though apparently the King of France is... Japanese?!
Edit: Just watched the trailer. Definitely not a traditional adaptation.
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Post by Barley on May 29, 2018 15:44:22 GMT
Yeah, they’re very forthcoming about it being modern
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Post by Tim of Raventree on May 29, 2018 15:46:44 GMT
It was very weird hearing Shakespearean words in a modern setting but I liked it anyway.
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Post by Barley on May 29, 2018 16:02:18 GMT
Reviews here say it was good!
You think it’s weird? Oh I like it! It really br8ngs home how much we can still learn, and how some of his plays are pretty timeless. Some don’t suit it... like midsummer, etc, anything really with a fantasy element, but othello, hamlet, JC, all have things to say about modern life too, and I like them in modern dress to show that. In period dress they can be written off more easily for modern social commentary.
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Post by Tim of Raventree on May 29, 2018 17:18:44 GMT
It felt a little strange to me, for sure, because I always imagine Shakespearean actors in Elizabethan attire and scenery, or else historical attire and settings i.e. , Dark Ages Britain for Lear. I think it's partly because modern patterns of speech are so vastly different. However, they did a great job of updating the play to the modern day and the cast was really good. I definitely enjoyed hearing speeches I remembered from at school.
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Post by Ser Willis Blackfort on Aug 12, 2018 8:58:17 GMT
We went to see a version of Hamlet by the Royal Shakespeare Company a little while back. It was really good, similar updated interpretation with Denmark being portrayed as a modern African kingdom/dictatorship. Here's the To Be Or Not To Be bit from it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=--tWffBTyqM
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Post by The Raven on Aug 25, 2018 23:20:23 GMT
We went to see a version of Hamlet by the Royal Shakespeare Company a little while back. It was really good, similar updated interpretation with Denmark being portrayed as a modern African kingdom/dictatorship. Here's the To Be Or Not To Be bit from it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=--tWffBTyqMI have seen this! They also did an adaptation of Julius Caesar set in a modern African country, with Julius Caesar as a petty warlord. Ray Fearson and Paterson Joseph were brilliant as Marc Antony and Brutus respectively.
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Post by Tim of Raventree on Aug 26, 2018 9:14:38 GMT
I'm reading a fantasy take on King Lear and really enjoying it. Lear is obsessed with star prophecies and has rejected the old magic of the kingdom. I love how the characters have been reimagined, most of them renamed as well. The author uses a POV system similar to ASOIAF so you can really see the perspective of characters like Lear's older daughters, who are of course portrayed as villains in the play. Character deaths have played out differently so far and I'm now 5/6 of the way through and interested to see how it ends, but also dreading the probable death of my favourite character. The Queens of Innis Lear
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