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quinn222 at 11:20am on 19/03/2006
quinn222 at 11:20am on 19/03/2006I just got back from the bookstore. I picked up Francis Mayes new book, checked out the magazines and the science books. Then I wandered over to drama. I've been trying to find a copy of Take Me Out for the longest time with no luck. Struck out again today (pardon the pun) but I did see a copy of Amadeus and grabbed that. Right next to that there was a huge display of Shakespeare. I have a full set of all the plays and sonnets but I inherited it from my grandfather and it's both valuable and in teeny print, so I don't read them. I could not resist though and purchased the three 'Slings and Arrows' plays:
Hamlet, MacBeth and King Lear. If you watch the show you know that there is a smaller plot line this season with Romeo and Juliet but I can't stand that play so I didn't get that one. I last read Hamlet and MacBeth a million years ago and I've never read Lear so, treat in store for me. And of course I will forever picture Jack as Hamlet from now on.
If you are not watching Slings and Arrows, why not?? Assuming you get it where you live of course.
Hamlet, MacBeth and King Lear. If you watch the show you know that there is a smaller plot line this season with Romeo and Juliet but I can't stand that play so I didn't get that one. I last read Hamlet and MacBeth a million years ago and I've never read Lear so, treat in store for me. And of course I will forever picture Jack as Hamlet from now on.
If you are not watching Slings and Arrows, why not?? Assuming you get it where you live of course.
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It's fantastic! It's a canadian show that airs in the US on Sundance on SUnday nights. It's hilarious and touching and full of some of the best acting you will see anywhere. It stars Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, and Martha Burns. Gross plays Geoffrey Tennant, the somewhat off kilter director of a Shakespeare company. The fiction New Burbage Festival, which is a not so veiled spoof a real festival in Ontario.
Each season they feature a specific play, season one was Hamlet. The lead in the play was a hollywood superstar pretty boy (Jack, played by Luke Kirby) and I won't go into Ophelia since that involves a spoiler. There is a varied cast of characters and it's really laugh out loud funny a lot of time as well as touching and astonishing, such as Jack's opening night performance of Hamlet. This season it's MacBeth. The cursed play. Also going on is a disasterous new ad campaign for the festival, a pompous MacBeth trying to undermine Geoffrey, both personally and professionaly and there is a young couple playing Romeo and Juliet and being directed hilariously by Don McKellar as Darren Nichols.
Watch it if you can, it's the best show I've seen in ages.
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are you looking for the book of Take ME Out? or a copy of the script?
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I've been looking for both but haven't found either. Amazon probably has it and I may have to go that route.