Subject: Swear by my [s]word
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 01:34:47 EST
Strange, Paul..._Titus_ so early and _Coriolanus_ so late... The latter
accumulates merit every time a sturdy Sailor takes on the lead role. I
hope, if you ever get a chance to see it, or are inflicted with the
requiremet of reading it, you'll find Coriolanus's potty mouth on par
with Kent's, from _Lear_, and that you'll appreciate the vigor and art
of his swearing.
Incidentally--the incidents of incidence ever increaseth this evening--I
saw the new Taymor _Titus_ on Friday. Hopkins and Lange were short of
brilliant, Hopkins ignoring many of his lines and Lange's hair reminding
one more of Meg Ryan than of a barbarous Goth, but many of the
performances were fantastic, and the setting concept was tip-top.
As with most Shakespeare on film, some of the cast preferred to act
right over their lines, as if the words were stage business intended to
occupy performers as they snarled and swooned, rather than the stuff of
the drama itself. But much of it came off nicely. No dramatic
departures, no intolerable diversions. Only a tactful handful of
20th-century updatings that, for instance, brought Chiron and Demetrius
burstingly to life in the ADHD era.
It's long, but certainly worth the time.
You were kidding about the "loan me your ears,"
-- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu - * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
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