Very little Shakespeare is played out on the professional west-end
stage these days. Most of it is in the Shakespearean churches.
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Roger: This is silly. Shakespeare is performed on the profesional stage in
> the US all the time. Two years ago I saw a wonderful production of As You
> Like It in Tucson. There are sold out summer Shakespeare festivals in
> Oregon, New York, and Connecticut that I'm aware of. When I was a teenager a
> complete cycle of the history plays was done at a major downtown theater in
> NY. Lear was done on Broadway last year.
>
> The ways of the censor tend to be unpredictable, perhaps because
> unpredictability is such a potent weapon.
>
> Mark
>
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> At 05:40 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
>>
>> one swallow a summer does not make.
>>
>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> > Right now the hottest ticket on Broadway is MacBeth, with Patrick
>> > Stewart in
>> > the title role. The run is sold out--even the scalpers are at a loss.
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>> >
>> > At 12:47 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Those were the days - the Lord Chamberlain (member of the Royal
>> >> Household) and his malign influence on the British Theatre. In another
>> >> email list, a long time ago, I mooted the theory that shakespeare's
>> >> continuing popularity down the ages was due in part to the Bard's
>> >> acceptability before the LC. My logic, fwiw, ran thus: you want to put
>> >> on a play and in those days, the least likeliest plays to get banned
>> >> were Shakespeares. So, you play safe, put on the Bard. Until the 60s,
>> >> when the LC threw away his blue pencil. Nowadays, S hardly appears on
>> >> the commercial stage.
>> >>
>> >> American bannings are two a penny: their school libraries have
>> >> committees which are battle-grounds for the inclusion/exclusion of
>> >> books. Harry Potter is a notorious example of this - the poor, deluded
>> >> fundies trying to stave off the influence of the heathen (WTF?). There
>> >> are lists on line of books that have been banned in the US. Are there
>> >> any for the UK?
>> >>
>> >> Roger
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Bircumshaw
>> >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >> > Lear was banned from performance between 1788-1820 when George III
>> >> > was considered insane, and the link between stage and royalty would
>> >> > be
>> >> > too close for official comfort. Contemporaneously with this Tom Paine
>> >> > was also banned in England and, famously, Coleridge and Wordsworth
>> >> > were watched for talking about Spinoza (Spy-noza)
>> >> >
>> >> > While 'Silas Marner' was banned in Anaheim CA in 1978 (?!) and '1984'
>> >> > in Florida in 1981 because it was considered 'pro-communist' (?)
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > David Bircumshaw
>> >> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> >> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> >> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> >> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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