Globe on Screen 2013 season
I said I was working on The Hollow Crown tea blends and here they are:
Richard II - White Pear, Chamomile, Marigold Flowers
Henry IV - Chocolate, Toasted Mate, Chestnut
Falstaff - Assam Melody, Currant, Almond
Prince Hal - Irish Breakfast, Cream, Ginger, Lemon Verbena
Henry V - Irish Breakfast, Oriental Spice, Gingerbread
St. Crispin’s Day - Pu Erh Dante, Caramel, Apple
So maybe go and check them out!
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The opening and concluding scenes of this production were staged to resemble Cenotaph services as modern dressed soldiers gravely marched beneath a series of receding proscenium arches on which were carved the names of soldiers killed in battle. The upbeat energy of the opening Chorus was thus immediately set against an acknowledgment of the pity and waste of war. Henry was shown watching footage of the First World War on a flickering portable screen as he prepared for his own invasion of France. Michael Sheen’s boyish king was volatile, intense and genuinely terrifying in his threatened violence to Harfleur. The costumes varied between three different time periods: Henry and his soldiers were dressed in modern camouflage fatigues; the mod-ish blue suits of the preening French had a medieval look; Pistol’s leather, shades and ponytail marked him out as an unruly Hell’s Angel.
Michael Sheen delivers the St. Crispin’s Day speech in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1997 production of Henry V. Directed by Ron Daniels, design by Ashley Martin-Davies, lighting by Peter Mumford.
Top: Publicity photograph of Laurence Olivier in Henry V
Bottom: The shooting script for Laurence Olivier’s 1944 film adaptation of Henry V
Both are part of the Folger Shakespeare collection, which also includes these images from the 1944 film.
Trailer for the 2013 season of performances by the Michael Grandage Company, including Henry V (with Jude Law), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Sheridan Smith and David Walliams).
(Source: youtube.com)
Jude Law as Henry V (Michael Grandage Company @ Noël Coward Theatre London, December 2013)
This is such a brilliant conversation: Simon Russell Beale and the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, discuss the work of Shakespeare at the Hay Festival on 27th May 2011.
Confirmed from Robert Marshall, the executive producer of the Globe on Screen, who gave a great paper today at the ANZSA 2012 conference:
Globe On Screen Season 2013:
-Henry V
-Taming of the Shrew
-Twelfth Night
**edit** just noticed - 600 followers. Thanks everyone :)
Happy Halloween. Here’s some of The Globe Theatre’s gorier moments on stage, via their Twitter and Facebook pages. I remember the images from Titus (the 2006 performance). I saw that production at The Globe with my mum. We both loved it. :)
This will always be my favourite version of the Saint Crispin’s Day speech. Nothing more thrilling than when a student finally gets what you’ve been trying to teach them, and owns it. Renaissance Man is such an underrated film, and well worth tracking down if you haven’t seen it.
