http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 03:55:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119433 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:45:49 +0000 Hoops McCann 119433@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Apparently he was refused entry to a club one night..........ah fughedabatit </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119408 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:54:11 +0000 Scroat 119408@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Way ahead of his time, the Bard was. Macbeth is a psychological drama written centuries before the subconscious was 'discovered' by the likes of Jung and Freud. Amazing stuff. Timeless. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119392 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:36:11 +0000 cinquecento 119392@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'd rather watch it on film that in the theatre; you can then avoid hearing that knowing 'I've read the notes so I know it's a joke' laugh when someone says 'hey non an twere a gizzard to a forple' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119367 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:10:36 +0000 Ironduke 119367@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Presumably Warren Mitchel's knob gave a wonderful Pistol, and a very well received Bottom? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119332 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:04:57 +0000 andhrimnir 119332@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I recall seeing Warren Mitchels knob in King Lear. The rest of him was in it too. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119329 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:44:15 +0000 beau-jolly 119329@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I saw a programme of the tellybox a while back where they were picking over an old theatre. There was an area in the stalls where they uncovered many old fly buttons. Apparently you could take a good wench without having to miss a turn. Sod the oranges and heckling.<br /> That's entertainment! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119320 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:00:45 +0000 shitsu_tonka 119320@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love Shakespeare deeply, honestly, purely. But when it comes to seeing it performed I tend to prefer productions without big names. Having someone hugely famous doing a turn often seems to unbalance things because when they're not on the play all but grinds to a halt.</p> <p>Ian McKellen's Lear was torture. Great when he was there giving it all 'come not between a dragon and his wrath' etc, etc fist-chewingly shite when he was backstage playing Portal or whatever it is actors do at these times. It also went on for four and a half hours. No good can come of a play lasting that long. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119318 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:42:19 +0000 Midfield Diamond 119318@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm with Wayland. Haven't seen or read Shakespeare since the bastard conspired with Dickens and some dull poets to make me fail my English Lit 'O' level. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119313 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:09:49 +0000 Scronnyglonkle 119313@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Getting back to Mr Scroat's comment, I think the experient has been done, just listen to the moronic crowd in any talent competition when critism is being given! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119299 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:05:13 +0000 waylandsmithy 119299@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>ITV? No. It's a bit highbrow for me. </p> <p>I tend to stick to films, but only if I'm pretty sure someone gets machine-gunned a lot, or a helicopter is shot down in an imaginative and creative way.</p> <p>It has to be HD and full dolby digital 5.1 though, or it won't hold my attention. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119290 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:39:39 +0000 wallster 119290@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Do you watch much ITV Wayland? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119284 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:23:45 +0000 waylandsmithy 119284@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm firmly in the 'it's elitist, not funny, not relevant and impossible to understand' camp. </p> <p>I'm sure it was great in its day, but then so was 'The Sweeney'. Have you tried to watch it now, though? The language is inpenetrable and the stories just don't seem relevant to the modern world. </p> <p>Mind you, I'm not singling Shakespeare out: I hate all theatre equally. It almost always descends into a bloody song, and the CGI is completely shit. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119272 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:16:49 +0000 wallster 119272@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I suspect many of the people who think it's elitist haven't actually been to a good production.</p> <p>If you stand in the yard at the Globe you'll get an interactive experience much more like what you're talking about above. Stamford Shakespeare where the stage is outside in the woods is another great experience.</p> <p>I'm not elite. I write shit about badgers. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41796#post-119260 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:33:31 +0000 Scroat 119260@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great programmes on Radio 4 about how Shakespeare was back in the day. Very much of the people for the people, rather than being the somewhat elitist entertainment it is today. Audiences would have been a drunken, rowdy lot by the sounds of it, drinking in the stalls, eating mussels, going outside to pee in the street or the river. And I'm guessing there would have been much more of a connection between the audience and the players. Lots of heckling, throwing food etc. by the sounds of it. </p> <p>Shakespeare had really tough audiences to please, so had to be really outstanding at his job to win them over, shut them up and suspend disbelief. </p> <p>It would be an interesting social experiment to do a production of Macbeth, get the audience to bring food and drink, and encourage them to barrack the cast if they get bored. </p>