Absolutely, Alison, Shakespeare isn't dull. You can love and hate it,
but there's always that pizazz. There's a certain flamboyance, a
swagger of language and theatre ...
Best
Dave
2008/10/22 Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>:
> Heh heh. Coincidentally I saw Romeo and Juliet in Lithuanian last
> night. Set in a bakery. It was a total pisstake on masculine machismo
> and male violence and especially on the culture of vendetta. The
> second half was basically a danse macabre, the first grotesquely
> funny. Extraordinary theatre. You'll never convince me it's dull!
>
> xA
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> 2008/10/23 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>> sorry to return to the dogfight but I'm bored. I tried to stay away
>> and lead a useful life but no, like a druggie wanting another fix ...
>>
>> I've never denied that you can get "brilliant and exciting" stuff out
>> of s. Then again, chuck a million monkeys at anything and you'll get
>> something good out of it.
>>
>> The East European stuff always sounded like zombie shakespeare. In
>> fact what we do sounds like Zombie shakespeare. Zombies.
>>
>> I always knew you were a decent shelagh, Alison :-)
>>
>> Roger
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