http://www.bardblog.com/in-mother-country-text-acts-you/ Quips, Quibbles, Queries, and Quarks from a Quirky Bardolator Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:02:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.bardblog.com/in-mother-country-text-acts-you/comment-page-1/#comment-892 Sean Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:37:08 +0000 http://www.bardblog.com/?p=409#comment-892 You make a good point. (And I liked the title a lot. The Yakov Smirnof/Shakespeare connection has been ignored by the media for too long). To expand on what you are saying the key to Shakespearean acting (or at least a key) is that the acting occurs on the lines not in between them. So Hamlet considers being or not being as he says "To be or not to be." There is nothing worse than an actor who says "To be" and then ponders what it would mean not to exist before saying "or not to be." Nice blog. You make a good point. (And I liked the title a lot. The Yakov Smirnof/Shakespeare connection has been ignored by the media for too long). To expand on what you are saying the key to Shakespearean acting (or at least a key) is that the acting occurs on the lines not in between them. So Hamlet considers being or not being as he says “To be or not to be.” There is nothing worse than an actor who says “To be” and then ponders what it would mean not to exist before saying “or not to be.” Nice blog.

]]> http://www.bardblog.com/in-mother-country-text-acts-you/comment-page-1/#comment-873 roger downing Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:00:22 +0000 http://www.bardblog.com/?p=409#comment-873 I have a new musical rock comedy i just completed about the bard. With songs like Lear singing, I'm More Foolish Than My Fool and Macbeth, Is This a Dagger or Mick Jagger? I even have an elizabonic's interpreter called cliff Notius( he dresses in yellow and black) who appears on stage when one of the characters on stage uses a word like hoyday or minime not familiar to the modern audience. Any interest? I have a new musical rock comedy i just completed about the bard. With songs like Lear singing, I’m More Foolish Than My Fool and Macbeth, Is This a Dagger or Mick Jagger? I even have an elizabonic’s interpreter called cliff Notius( he dresses in yellow and black) who appears on stage when one of the characters on stage uses a word like hoyday or minime not familiar to the modern audience. Any interest?

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