Romeo and Juliet, Abbey Ruins
Jul. 22nd, 2005 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperHmm. Not one of their best - they're fucking brilliant at the great dramas and comedies (Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Richard III, As You Like It, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, so this one seemed very slight against it Still, got better as time went on, and the very awkwardness of R + J as a couple worked very well. You didn't ever get the impression that Romeo was a teenager, early twenties at the least, but Juilet - she was played as very awkward and stumbling and you thought '...actually, that's a damn good sheltered 13 year old who's got one of her first major crushes'.
Nurse was great, as was Father Lawrence, and all the funny was preserved. I can still never get over John Goodman (the company's Fool, and still does one of the best heels in the air clicks I've ever seen) as serious character, but he does frustrated napoleonic type very well as the Prince. Once again Antony Wernham did his bit part playing, and proceeded to get some bloody fantastic lines and roll on and steal the stage out from under the main actors in two lines, while chewing on an apple, no less. Mercutio? having way too much fun, with great sword fights, and asides and fooling and emotion. One of those roles in the play you fight for. Can still never see a Mercutio without quoting Shakespeare in Love : 'A fabulous role! The center of the play! He dies with such anguish! A speech three pages long!' '....He dies?' (still one of Ben affleck's best roles evah, omg)
John Flint, tall, broad imposing bald man, company's main dramtic actor, did Capulet this time (has also done amazing Julius Ceasar, Antonio in MoV and my family tends to go into paroxysms of joy when speaking of his Richard III - a physically imposing soldier and leader of men who was shagging the gender-switched Buckingham), and as Dad says, you always have problems when seeing him play nice people. it's just wrong. But he does get to do the 'hang, beg, starve in the street' scene, as well as the fabulous 'as you be mine, I give you to my friend' (Most creepy and menacing version, see Baz Luhrmann's version). As the actor says in his bio, 'His current ambition is to be cast in a role which does not involve cruelty to the opposite sex.' Sorry, John, but you're far too fabulous as a bastard.
Clothing : Regency Napoleonic.
Insert in the programme best EVER. : The Production Team offer their profuse apologies for the omission from the cast list to Rebecca Pitt who plays Juliet - Daughter of the Capulets.
:facepalm: Balthasar I could understand. Benvolio I could almost understand. But you'd think that at least the fecking *printer* would notice that that one of the title characters isn't listed.
Nurse was great, as was Father Lawrence, and all the funny was preserved. I can still never get over John Goodman (the company's Fool, and still does one of the best heels in the air clicks I've ever seen) as serious character, but he does frustrated napoleonic type very well as the Prince. Once again Antony Wernham did his bit part playing, and proceeded to get some bloody fantastic lines and roll on and steal the stage out from under the main actors in two lines, while chewing on an apple, no less. Mercutio? having way too much fun, with great sword fights, and asides and fooling and emotion. One of those roles in the play you fight for. Can still never see a Mercutio without quoting Shakespeare in Love : 'A fabulous role! The center of the play! He dies with such anguish! A speech three pages long!' '....He dies?' (still one of Ben affleck's best roles evah, omg)
John Flint, tall, broad imposing bald man, company's main dramtic actor, did Capulet this time (has also done amazing Julius Ceasar, Antonio in MoV and my family tends to go into paroxysms of joy when speaking of his Richard III - a physically imposing soldier and leader of men who was shagging the gender-switched Buckingham), and as Dad says, you always have problems when seeing him play nice people. it's just wrong. But he does get to do the 'hang, beg, starve in the street' scene, as well as the fabulous 'as you be mine, I give you to my friend' (Most creepy and menacing version, see Baz Luhrmann's version). As the actor says in his bio, 'His current ambition is to be cast in a role which does not involve cruelty to the opposite sex.' Sorry, John, but you're far too fabulous as a bastard.
Clothing : Regency Napoleonic.
Insert in the programme best EVER. : The Production Team offer their profuse apologies for the omission from the cast list to Rebecca Pitt who plays Juliet - Daughter of the Capulets.
:facepalm: Balthasar I could understand. Benvolio I could almost understand. But you'd think that at least the fecking *printer* would notice that that one of the title characters isn't listed.
