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' (?)
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > --
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>>>> >> > 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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>>>> >
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>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
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> 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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"She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
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