will someone please help antonio

yet another side blog of pussyvalkyrie because I have zero chill

[dduane]

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88

Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.

[theatreocelot]

My proposal for a terrible and inconvenient piece of dual theatre

Basically when the pieces interact, the curtains open and the two plays become one. This would be awful to time and would probably suck mad shit, however I think I should be allowed to try and make it anyway

[dwarvendiaries]

This would

A) Be a nightmare for stage manager trying to sync the transitions

B) Tech and effects would be crying pissing themselves trying to run two shows at once.

C) Adaptation. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is about 2:30 hours and Hamlet in full is 4 hours but is usually abridged down to about 3. There are also lengthening and shortenings of scenes in Hamlet in R&G. Off-stage scenes need to be synced with on stage appearances.

I’m also legally unsure of how this would work??? To get this produced you’d probably have to prioritize Stoppard text at the expense of Shakespeare

I also agree that this is terrible idea that must be done

[morwentrouble]

agreeing w people in notes that the audience needs to be able to walk around between the two sides of the stage.

this would be a logistical nightmare and a brilliant theatrical coup, I need it thankyou

[bophtelophti]

I was literally in this in 2003!

We didn't just do it on opposite sides of a stage; it was in various rooms of a building that represented the castle of Elsinore (it was a church, but architecturally was a little castle-like) and the audience could walk freely from room to room to see what different characters were up to at the same time: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern fretting in one space, Hamlet monologuing in another, maybe Claudius and Getrude plotting somewhere else, etc. We cut most of the third act of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead because it doesn't take place in or near Elsinore.

I played Guildenstern. It was great fun. I learned how to fake-flip a coin so it would always come up Heads, just in case an audience member decided to get close enough to see them. (They didn't.)

It was totally a nightmare for the stage manager to keep everybody on track so that the timing worked out. I feel really bad for the actress who played Ophelia, since they did her burial scene outside (in Philadelphia, in December!) and she had to obviously be motionless the whole time.

[snowleeksoup]

pat mandziy | if much ado about nothing was gen z

[myrosecolouredgirl]

[prudencepaccard]

Risencrantz and Grindenstern

is this anything?

[aq2003]

this is so cool and also rosencrantz and guildenstern's sign names are killing me lol

[not100bees]

Shakespeare Plays

Can you name the plays of Shakespeare?

How did you do?

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Voting ended onSep 24, 2024

[socialshakespeare]

The Tempest, aka the only time Shakespeare wrote an Antonio who isn't blatantly thirsting over some other dude

[socialshakespeare]

Theory: he wrote it after they broke up

[luntfontanne]

Posters for National Theater of Korea's production of Macbeth, designed by Yuni Yoshida and photographed by Noh Juhan. [1][2]

[hamletthedane]

Obtained a (digital) edition of Hamlet that - for some reason - decided to illustrate Horatio and Hamlet’s scenes using art lifted from Mark Twain’s first edition of The Prince and The Pauper. And frankly it’s incredible:

I mean they’re not wrong for this choice, but it was definitely a choice

[sunaddicted]

My toxic trait is that I judge people by their top three Shakespeare plays - just like folks who are into the horoscope judge you based on your sun, moon and rising signs.

Btw mine are Macbeth, Richard II and The Tempest

[doyouremem8erme]

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead moodboard but its full of metafictional doomed yaoi so yeah basically its just a normal r&gad moodboard

hi @ascendantdreamweaver

[wolfdisguise]

she rosencrantz on my guildenstern until the both of us are dead

[valtsv]

i want to make a "he should've been at the club" post about hamlet but there's so much controversy about his actual age that i can't while still maintaining any claim to academic integrity

[valtsv]

"should hamlet have been at the club", the world's longest unanswered question in the history of academia, still ongoing after 400 years of debate

[valtsv]

[eroscestlavie]

12th night would be by far one of the funniest potential all female Shakespeare adaptations possible if they kept everything about it and implied the drama taking place within the extremely insular butch-femme dyke social circle of a single location

[eroscestlavie]

Viola after she gets a baby dyke haircut in order to foster social clout in Olivia’s all dyke court but then Olivia (a femme) thinks she’s a whoooole butch top and Viola has to be like actually I’m an andro bottom who wants to be butch 4 butch with the extremely melodramatic stone butch named Duke who keeps emailing you: 😅

[eroscestlavie]

Malvolio is one of those uptight 2nd wave feminist 90s dykes who believes butch-femme sex is anti-egalitarian and reproductive of heterosexuality

[aconissa]

this casting is so insanely powerful

[butiamrighttoo]

I really do just feel sorry for the fictional students of the university at Wittenberg

You’ve got a scenario where it’s possible for them to have had both Hamlet as a classmate and Faustus as a professor

[skyeventide]

#CLASS IS CANCELED #AGAIN # LOL WHAT HAPPENED THIS TIME? #WAR? #SATAN? #MURDER? (via @theotherwesley)

[shredsandpatches]

@titleleaf wrote a really entertaining fic with exactly this premise and the A+ characterization point that Hamlet would probably actually like having Faustus as a professor. Go check it out; it’s great!

[eighttwotwopointthreethree]

for some reason the above link isn’t working, so here it is.