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| Going to take in some Shakespeare tomorrow; and it's looking to be a sunny day! | |
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| sue | Aug 10 2007, 02:54 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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These tents are a spectacular place to watch a play, it's always open behind the stage, and you get a beautiful view of Vancouver and the water behind the sets. Julius Caesar this year for us! this sort of gives you the idea of what the stages look like.
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| DivaDeb | Aug 10 2007, 03:01 PM Post #2 |
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AWESOME!!! Oh...I would love to be there! |
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| musicasacra | Aug 10 2007, 04:01 PM Post #3 |
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did u know i'm a huge fan of Shakespeare? i've read all of the plays and poems. i've seen many plays when i lived in London. i'm a Shakespeare nerd. ![]() enjoy! |
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| The 89th Key | Aug 10 2007, 04:28 PM Post #4 |
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Eh tu, Sue?
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| dolmansaxlil | Aug 10 2007, 04:37 PM Post #5 |
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Sue, A couple friends of mine went to that theatre years ago, and they were so enthralled by the setting that they started their own Shakespeare company in Oakville, Ontario. It was in Coronation Park, which is right on the lake. I was lucky enough to work for them for their first four years. Absolutely beautiful setting - the "stage" was just on the grass, with this HUGE old tree at back centre. The lake stretched out behind, and a small stream ran along the side. They said it wasn't quite as lovely as the setting that inspired them, but it was beautiful nonetheless. Caesar is one of the few Shakespeares that I haven't seen or worked on. Enjoy! |
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| sue | Aug 10 2007, 06:30 PM Post #6 |
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That's neat, dol. For some reason, I always thought Bard on the Beach was following in the footsteps of some Ontario Shakespeare festival, done the same way. Who cares, it's a great idea! There's another version, started a couple of years ago I think, in the Okanagan region, at the end of a vineyard, with the lake as backdrop. Haven't gone there yet, but sounds like a great place to be!! We've gone to this for 4 or 5 years now, always to a comedy. Thought it would be a great way to introduce Shakespeare to the kid, and we were right. Shakespeare on the stage, when you can clearly hear every clever turn of phrase, is brilliant. I've gained a whole new appreciation, only wish I'd discovered how great it is years ago. Picked Julius this year because we decided it was time to try a tragedy, and Colin studied it this year at school, and asked if we could go to that. MS, do you have any kind of Shakespeare festival where you are? Just wondering how many cities do this kind of thing. |
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| musicasacra | Aug 10 2007, 07:06 PM Post #7 |
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i'm not aware of a local Shakespeare festival. i guess i just wait for trips to London. during our Christmas trip to London, we saw a play or musical every night, including two RSC productions: a pre-Castro Cuban setting of Much Ado About Nothing (with great music!) and Patrick Stewart in Antony and Cleopatra. |
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| Red Rice | Aug 10 2007, 07:57 PM Post #8 |
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Wow sue! That stage is absolutely breathtaking! I'm so envious! Have a wonderful time! One of my favorite soliloquys is from "Julius Caesar": "But I fear him not: Yet, if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music: Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves; And therefore are they very dangerous. I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd Than what I fear, for always I am Caesar." |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| musicasacra | Aug 10 2007, 08:06 PM Post #9 |
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one of my favorite quotations is from Julius Caesar. And since you know you cannot see yourself So well as by reflection, I, your glass, Will modestly discover to yourself That of yourself which you yet know not of. |
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| Frank_W | Aug 10 2007, 08:11 PM Post #10 |
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Man... I love Shakespeare!! I've got all of his works, though I confess, I haven't yet read all of them. It's not like sitting down and cracking a Stephen King novel... |
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| bachophile | Aug 10 2007, 08:14 PM Post #11 |
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Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful objects so familiar That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds: And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial. ![]() could have been written by the devil himself. |
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| sue | Aug 10 2007, 08:44 PM Post #12 |
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Hey cool! Thanks all. What fun to read your favourite bits, and think about those. I'm going to crawl into bed with my Complete Shakespeare (do with that as you may ) and refresh my memory of the play. Some good stuff there.And so to bed. Ooops, wrong dude. |
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| LWpianistin | Aug 10 2007, 09:27 PM Post #13 |
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I used to go to this when we lived in England. I saw Macbeth, Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest there. It's really cool because the stage is the ruins of Ludlow Castle, which is first mentioned in a manuscript from 1138. Some years, bats would fly over head as the sun was setting. I remember that very clearly during Macbeth, when Lady Macbeth gives her "Unsex me here" monologue. "The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!'" Macbeth is my favorite, along with Twelfth Night. I miss it Have a GREAT time, Sue! |
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) and refresh my memory of the play. Some good stuff there.

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