Simon and Schuster cuts 35 jobs

[Marie1]

I had to read 13 Shakespeare plays and works in 6 months... the source of a lot of allusions etc became clear... it was dizzying.

 

[Greg Cox]

I caught Patrick Stewart in THE TEMPEST, of course. I also have fond memories of both James Earl Jones and Laurence Olivier as King Lear (not in the same production,natch). And I once saw a great production of MIDSUMMER that shifted the setting to a 1950's high school a la GREASE.

The latter brought all new meaning to the line: "Let us ROCK the ground on which these sleepers lie!"

If not for Shakespeare, where would TOS have gotten some of its best titles?

 

[JD]

Lol, I didn't realize there had been so much playing around with the settings for Shakespeare's plays. The only thing like that that I've seen is Baz Lurhman's (wow I actually got that right on my first try) Romeo + Juliet, which is IMO one of the better versions of the story despite the setting change.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Most of the students just recited the lines dryly, but I always made it a performance.

Typecasting. I played the fool in "King Lear".

 

[Marie1]

Most of the students just recited the lines dryly, but I always made it a performance.

Typecasting. I played the fool in "King Lear".

In high school... I played Paris... I got an A+... teacher's only note was that I made a great man...

 

[Turtletrekker]

The High School I work at recently did A Midsummers Nights Dream and set the story in the 1960's. Oberon's crew were all dressed up like hippies and Titania's people were all beatniks.

 

[KRAD]

^ OMG, that's PERFECT!!!!!

 

[Stevil2001]

Lol, I didn't realize there had been so much playing around with the settings for Shakespeare's plays. The only thing like that that I've seen is Baz Lurhman's (wow I actually got that right on my first try) Romeo + Juliet, which is IMO one of the better versions of the story despite the setting change.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/unconventional_director_sets

 

[Allyn Gibson]

How true, how true.

Patrick Stewart staged a revisionist take of Othello about fifteen years ago; Stewart played the Moor, and Ron Canada played Iago, as a band of mercenaries in combat fatigues.

I love Ian McKellan's Richard III, which transplants the setting to a fascist Britain of the 1930s.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I love Ian McKellan's Richard III, which transplants the setting to a fascist Britain of the 1930s.

That was brilliant. Need to find it on DVD.

 

[skeletorsingh]

Back to the OT, this is an interesting and insightful article about the recent job losses at the book publishers. It really is too bad about Marco and I hope the DS9 Relaunch continues on the excellent course he started it on.

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/12/23/publishing/index.html