Comments on: In Mother Country Text Acts You!

By: CS

CS — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:22:18 +0000

I’ve never heard of this term before. This is interesting though. It also makes a lot of sense if you think about it. I mean these are plays, not books. So if you read it you should be able to act this out with everything that Shakespeare wanted it to be. As long as someone doesn’t stray from the book and acts honestly they will do a good job portraying the play.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:37:08 +0000

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.

By: roger downing

roger downing — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:00:22 +0000

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?