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
>>
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>
>
> --
> 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
>
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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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