Geoff Klock dug up clips from 198 movies and TV shows quoting Hamlet, from The Simpsons to Boy Meets World to Star Trek and beyond, and whittled them down to just under 15 minutes.This is so awesome.
National Theatre Live to broadcast the Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
We’re delighted to announce that on 30 January 2014 we will broadcast the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus, directed by Josie Rourke, with Tom Hiddleston in the title role and Mark Gatiss as Menenius, live to cinemas around the world.
Tickets will go on sale from 7 June. Sign up for email updates.
Not sure the casting impresses me…yet.
National Theatre Live: Othello trailer (by NationalTheatre)
CANNOT WAAAAAAAAAAIT.
(PS Adrian Lester told me on Twitter he would include a dance number YET I SEE NO DANCING. COME ONNNN)
Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender are attached to star in a big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth,with Fassbender in the title role and Portman as Lady MacBeth.
The script is billed as an updated version of Shakespeare’s tale of revenge and ambition, complete with the blood and thunder of the original tragedy.Is this casting a Yay or Nay?
The Tempest: Voyage
My final art exam piece, a graphic novel of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in a Sci-Fi setting
newsfrommycorneroftheblogosphere:
A bold new vision of a timeless classic: Joss’s Whedon’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - UK Trailer (in cinemas 14 June 2013)
Press reviews for Othello are coming in thick and fast - here’s a selection of what critics have said so far…
★★★★★
‘A breathtaking show of emotional firepower. Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear are superb.’
The Times
★★★★★
‘Witty, agile, lucid and deeply felt. A gripping production.’
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Colin Morgan as Ariel in “The Tempest”. (x)
(via sircolsmorgan)
