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It it’s so bad, why would you go to all that effort toward its performance? Just for the sake of completeness?
by leephillips 6y ago
It it’s so bad, why would you go to all that effort toward its performance? Just for the sake of completeness?
- jfengel 6y agoPrecisely. In fact, I'm taking advantage of the current crisis to do a half-performance, as a Zoom show rather than a stage show, which has much lower costs and much less mental overhead. I'm also using it as a class in editing Shakespeare for performance -- it's a rare opportunity to come into a (nominally) Shakespeare play with no preconceptions. We are so close: in two decades we've done everything except Cymbelline, which we had scheduled to be rehearsing right now. That "everything" includes Pericles and Henry VIII, which aren't really any more attributable to Shakespeare than 2NK, but they happened to appeal to somebody who wanted to put them on. I was going to declare that we'd "spiked the canon" after Cymbelline, but the asterisk kinda bugged me. So, opportunity. Cymbelline is itself not very good, but it appealed to a director, who has a charming "Princess Bride" take on it. We want to do a full performance, which is the best way for us to really study the play, so we've put it on hold. We had converted a production of Romeo and Juliet, already underway, into a Zoom show, and we're doing some other Zoom shows and online classes to keep our hand in.
- leephillips 6y agoAh, OK! Thanks for the interesting reply.