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Love to see Twelfth Night, Malvolio is a delicious part and his denouement can be wrenching
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby)
Bryan Ferry played him iirc
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 November 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
xp i remember you posting that actually and often think of it! i am the same w AYLI (hence parenthetical defensiveness above).
island-hopping this weekend to see a friend's production of his own translation of 12N into hawaiian actually. confidence fairly high on the queer front.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 November 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
romeo and juliet is absolutely amazing; juliet is an i n c r e d i b l e part, one of the geniuses; the scene where the wedding musicians are implied to be playing cheerfully underneath an entire prolonged scene of the capulet family screaming in grief is one of the wildest things in shakespeare (when i directed we used a muzak instrumental of "all i have to do is dream")
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 November 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
honestly i prob haven't seen it recently enough. some vivid childhood memories for sure tho (what satisfaction canst thou have tonight?) all i have in the way of semiadult critical thoughts are i remember thinking leguizamo and postlethwaite were A+ and that everybody could maybe have shouted less. i don't remember paul rudd in it but that is perfect casting so presumably he was great.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 November 2022 03:36 (one year ago) link
seven months pass...
opened in much ado tonight. "kill claudio" was like firing a gun: i hadn't moved an eyelid muscle in response when the laugh came. as a laugh partisan this was a thrill, like volunteering for a 400-year-old magic trick. backstage a minute later beatrice dabbed her lipstick off me and whispered "why did they laugh?" he's still got it folks.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 July 2023 10:26 (nine months ago) link