Bard Trek; whooshie!!!

[RobertScorpio]

The whooshie is the sound the enterprise makes as it zips by!!!...

We have Shakespeare as a thread that goes from TOS to the later shows...heck, we even have Klingons claiming that some of his more famous quotes are better read or spoken in their mother tongue; Klingon!

Now, I am no expert about Shakespeare. But over the time I know that some of you are, from past threads and posts. Of all of Shakepeare's plays, which one do you think a cast of Star Trek vets, all of whom seem to like to do plays, could carry off the best. So I don't mean a Star Trek episode with a Shakespeare theme (many of which do it seems anyway) but an actual work of Shakespeare with some of our favorite TREK performers in it...

I'd pay to see a Shakespeare play starring Stewart, Shatner, Rene (forget spelling his last name) and all the other so called 'stage trained' actors of TREK...

Rob

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

(It's Rene Auberjonois, I believe.)

I believe Marc Alaimo also has Shakespearian acting experience--and I would cast him as the lead or if not that, a VERY major character. I think Avery Brooks was also a stage actor (and sometimes this showed in his TV acting, and not always in a good way). Seeing him in his natural environment could be very interesting.

 

[RobertScorpio]

(It's Rene Auberjonois, I believe.)

I believe Marc Alaimo also has Shakespearian acting experience--and I would cast him as the lead or if not that, a VERY major character. I think Avery Brooks was also a stage actor (and sometimes this showed in his TV acting, and not always in a good way). Seeing him in his natural environment could be very interesting.

Now how did I know you would set ALAIMO as our star? But all kidding aside, he is a good actor. I see him a the villain of course. But I'm wondering what play they would actually do?

Rob

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Well, I do believe Alaimo's played Iago before.

Though I would add...I think he can play other characters besides a villain. He's good at it, no doubt--but I thought he played Gul Macet quite well, too. Macet may have been on the opposite side, but he wasn't a villain by any means.

 

[JustKate]

Kate Mulgrew has stage training as well - she won an Obie in 2007 for her role in Iphigenia 2.0, and she just finished a role in Equus. And Robert Beltran is a Shakespeare junkie.

I'm still thinking about what play would work for a sizeable bunch of them, though. Maybe...Henry V? There is only one really big role (King Henry, of course - and that would need to be played by a fairly young man) but that's a play that has some roles that might be relatively minor but which are challenging for the actors, important to the audience and important to the play itself. Also...it's one of my favorites, if that matters...

Kate Mulgrew would make a great Mistress Quickly.

 

[KimMH]

Kirk could be King Lear and Seska one of the treacherous daughters - of course I like Janeway as Cordelia. Picard could be Cordelia's hubs - forget name . . . Data wold be Cordelia's agent who resuces Lear from Regan and Gonneril but maybe it breaks down from here, so many unsavory characters in Lear . . .

forgive me - I just skipped though a recent King Lear w/ Ian McKellan as Lear (PBS) - of couse excellent - too bad I didn't have three hours to watch it uninterupted!

 

[JustKate]

Kirk/Shatner could NOT be King Lear - no no no no! Ooh, but Avery Brooks could be. That would be fab.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Kirk/Shatner could NOT be King Lear - no no no no! Ooh, but Avery Brooks could be. That would be fab.

And I would actually pay $$$ to see that.

In fact? A Shakespheare play with TREK characters...oh yeah..I'm loving it...

Rob