memo to self

[redbird]

a comment I just left to rachelmanija: I have seen perhaps too many productions of Hamlet, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, all of which seem to have been popular with theatre companies when I was going out more often.

I should see if I can dig out what I wrote about two productions that assumed you knew the material: A one-man, less-than-an-hour Hamlet and Shakespeare's R and J, with the frame story of four teenage boys at a boarding school putting on the play without the support (or, I think, knowledge) of the teachers or other school staff.

ETA: I found the one-actor Hamlet, and if I posted about Shakespeare's R and J, I didn't tag it with either "theater" or "theatre".

I have just gone back and added "theatre" to the posts I had tagged "theater," and vice versa, rather than pick a spelling and merge the tags, which would likely be the right thing to do.

Comments

[hobbitbabe]

I've read back in your theatre/theater tagged posts, and was delighted to find you saying interesting things about so many plays or musicals I've also seen productions of.

As for Shakespeare's R and J, yes it was a clandestine reading/staging - they weren't supposed to be reading it in school because of the sex and violence.

Was your one-man Hamlet the one by Raoul Bhaneja, which was at Montreal Fringe and then Edmonton Fringe in the summer of 2008? It was the first Fringe performance I'd ever seen, and I saw it on the recommendation of our Montreal friends-in-common.

[redbird]

Yes, that was the Raoul Bhaneja Hamlet.