30 Days of Shakespeare - Day 5
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bardic_ladyDay #5 - Your Favourite Villain
Richard III! I love Richard III. I love how completely shameless he is. I love how he totally makes the audience complicit in his evil. I love how good an actor he is. He walks up to some people and goes "Ow! That witch withered my arm!" and even though they KNOW absolutely that it isn't true, that he's lying, they end up believing him. I love that in a lot of ways, he's a medieval demon and he wouldn't be out of place bouncing around in the audience farting fireworks. And I dearly love Antony Sher's book Year of the King in which he details the process by which he created his version of Richard for the RSC.
Day #1: Your favorite play
Day #2: Your favorite character
Day #3: Your favorite hero
Day #4: Your favorite heroine
Day #5: Your favorite villain
Day #6: Your favorite villainess
Day #7: Your favorite clown
Day #8: Your favorite comedy
Day #9: Your favorite tragedy
Day #10: Your favorite history
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
Richard III! I love Richard III. I love how completely shameless he is. I love how he totally makes the audience complicit in his evil. I love how good an actor he is. He walks up to some people and goes "Ow! That witch withered my arm!" and even though they KNOW absolutely that it isn't true, that he's lying, they end up believing him. I love that in a lot of ways, he's a medieval demon and he wouldn't be out of place bouncing around in the audience farting fireworks. And I dearly love Antony Sher's book Year of the King in which he details the process by which he created his version of Richard for the RSC.
Day #1: Your favorite play
Day #2: Your favorite character
Day #3: Your favorite hero
Day #4: Your favorite heroine
Day #5: Your favorite villain
Day #6: Your favorite villainess
Day #7: Your favorite clown
Day #8: Your favorite comedy
Day #9: Your favorite tragedy
Day #10: Your favorite history
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
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Date: 7/26/10 05:41 am (UTC)