Almost anything's potentially a tourist trap these days. That's what
living in a culture focused on marketing does to things.
My masterplan for the coming years is to persuade the Arts Council
that I'm a rare cultural antiquity. I expect stiff competition from
Patrick.
2008/6/6 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> the Globe is a tourist trap, little more, little less.
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:01 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> The Globe isn't government subsidized you know.
>>
>> 2008/6/5 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> Indeed. But would that make Hamlet as good as the Mousetrap? At least
>>> the Mousetrap didn't have to be subsidized to be shown.
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:58 PM, David Bircumshaw
>>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> The Mousetrap ran for years.
>>>>
>>>> 2008/6/5 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> --
>>>>>>> >> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>>>>>>> >> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>>>>>>> >> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>>>>>>> >> The Go-Betweens
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>>>>>>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>>>>>>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>>>>>>> The Go-Betweens
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>>>>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>>>>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>>>>> The Go-Betweens
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>>> The Go-Betweens
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> The Go-Betweens
>
--
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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