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Post by couldileaveyou on Apr 5, 2022 19:50:35 GMT
I stuck with it as there was nothing else I fancied on telly on Sunday night. I enjoyed the performances but thought the production looked awful and the music was pretty bad. Oh so long ago Mark Rylance and Janet McTeer were my first Benedick and Beatrice,and unsurprisingly nobody's come close since. Still my favourite Shakespeare comedy. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a really bad production of it. Looking forward to the NT one. Didn't the Mark Rylance's production with Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones get terrible reviews? I didn't see it tho |
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Post by Jan on Apr 5, 2022 20:16:52 GMT
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a really bad production of it. Looking forward to the NT one. Didn't the Mark Rylance's production with Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones get terrible reviews? I didn't see it tho Yes. I didn’t see it either. |
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Post by lynette on Apr 5, 2022 22:51:24 GMT
Did anyone watch the screening? I flicked over, my housemate who loves the play said,"What on earth is this?" And we changed channels again. I wished I could have changed channels in the theatre too. The costumes were silly, overpowered the actors who were fighting them most of the time. And mismanaged with the glorious glam gold dress wasted in a scene , should have been the last scene which was all glammed up of course, a climax as it were and more subtle stuff gradually developing over the course of the play. The designer obviously had no idea about the play at all. B&B were passable but unmemorable, bless. But Dogberry was actually one of the better ones. It was staged poorly with action at the back in the corner at the beginning, none of the backstory came through and if you didn't know the story beforehand you would not have got it at all from the opening. Having found fault and been disappointed, yet again, there was a crowd of young ‘uns’ in , who loved it, standing ovation, cheers, the lot. |
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