Shakespeare @ the Globe

[juliet]

It's that time of year again - anyone want to go see Shakespeare at the Globe?

Sadly, it seems that the very good all-women company we've seen the last 2 years aren't doing anything this year (boo!), so choices are:

The Tempest (weird-ass modern version)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (modern version but not too weird-ass)
The Winter's Tale (original practices version)

I am tossing-up between The Tempest & The Winter's Tale, but am open to persuasion, so, a poll!

[Poll #496110]

Comments also welcome.

Comments

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I'm actually tempted to go see both The Winter's Tale and The Tempest - The Winter's Tale is my most beloved Shakespeare play, and The Tempest has so much potential for daftness.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I do love The Tempest, but I've seen it before (another weird-ass modern version that mostly took place on a great big swinging chandelier). Never seen The Winter's Tale, and there seems something nicely incongruous about seeing it outdoors in summer.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I'm quite tempted to go to all of them because they're among my favourite Shakespeare plays and they work well together thematically. So if you organise a trip to one of them I might be interested to come along (diary permitting, & if I haven't already gone to see it, etc.) but I don't think there's much point in me stating a preference. If that makes sense. :)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

And I want to go to Pericles too! And if I could find somewhere doing Cymbeline I'd have the set.

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

I saw an excellent Pericles last year in Hammersmith, an excellent Tempest in Edinburgh many years ago, and have never seen WT, so my order of pref would be WT>Tempest>Pericles.

And seated. :)

[dogrando.livejournal.com]

I am aph34red of the Tempest, for it has a cast of three actors, three dancers, and seven singers. And dance==poo, modern dance doubly so, modern dance in Shakespeare 'cos somebody's seen Prospero's Books and thought that looked neat quadruply so.

Pericles, on the other hand, has a Redgrave in it.

But playwise, I'd rather see WT, so that has the edge. I am obviously going to like any comedy of which the synopsis states that "His implacable jealousy has terrible consequences, leading to the rupture [excellent word] of his lifelong friendship with the King of Bohemia, and the death of his wife and son."

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I have decided that it should be The Winter's Tale, because that has a sheep and a bear in it, and needs only a robot to rival my zoo.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointage!