'Tis the Season of Our Wondering

[jazzy_dave]

Thinking of the great bard - Shakespeare to boot -




Have you ever been in a play, amateur of rhatever?

Who is your fave playwright / dramatist?

Have you been to the theatre in the past five years?

Which is your favourite Shakespeare play?

Comments

[sandman-jazz.livejournal.com]

1. I used to do amateur dramatics when at Uni

2. Tom Stoppard and Dennis Potter

3. Unfortunately no. I nearly took Amy Cherry to see Titus Andronicus last year but she wasn't free on the evening and I didn't want to go alone.

4. Probably Macbeth.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Potter was brillaint as to was Tom.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

No. I took drama in jr. high but the play we were rehearsing was bumped in favor of some athletic spirit raising thing or something like that.

I think Ibsen.

No, sadly.

Hmm. Probably Macbeth. It's got witches and a crazy lady.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Certainly have. I've produced, lit, designed and composed for drama too!

Yer man Will there!

Yup!

Probably the Scottish play.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

The Scottish play is my second choice.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

What's your first?

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Hamlet first and third maybe Othello

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Merry Wives of Windsor and King John.

[lisa-thecat.livejournal.com]

No.
Eugene Ionesco.
Often.
Hamlet. Followed by A Midsummer's Night Dream, the play in play part, not the main action.

[everville340.livejournal.com]

Dozens, but now in memory only...

(I am drawing a blank for this one.)

No, not since 2009.

King Lear, for certain reasons studying it in high school, unfortunately having nothing to do with the play or Bard..

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

What sparked your love of Lear? ;) I joke the reason I am a Shakespeare fanatic is the actor who played Edmund in the first production I was was RIDICULOUSLY hot.

[everville340.livejournal.com]

Truthfully though, that is a very good and logical reason :)

A friend and I skipped "lunch" right before class to sneak down the street. If I remember correctly, she promptly burned half an eyebrow off fumbling with her lighter. Back in class, I recall the teacher asking who Edmund was - in the play, not the ridiculously hot actor - and I do believe I stood up to answer (which was not at all required), "He was a bastard!". Being it was a catholic school, much hilarity ensued - I was a "good" student and not normally prone to such things - but what made the entire thing highly memorable to me was the teacher actually giving me (vocal) credit, telling the class I was right because Edmund was indeed a bastard. Which only made everyone crack up more. (And now I'm having flashbacks to "The Owl and The Pussycat" in grade school.)

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

Yes, but not for a couple years now.

Athol Fugard and Alan Ayckbourn are pretty much tied. Ayckbourn tends to win these days because I don't care for Fugard's post-apartheid work as much as his earlier plays.

Yes, I just saw Sweeney Todd last night.

King Lear

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Love the icon BTW.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I love it way too much.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Have you ever been in a play, amateur of rhatever?

Yes, but not willingly. I was in a few productions as a child, and I took a class in "drama" in college, which actually was rather fun and introduced me to the man who would become my fiancee and has always been a good friend since, when we did "Desire Under the Elms" and "Lysistrata".

Who is your fave playwright / dramatist?

I don't find scripts enjoyable to read, so I really don't have any favorite, but I do enjoy passages by Eugene O'Neill.

Have you been to the theatre in the past five years?

No, my DH is hard of hearing so plays aren't enjoyable for him.

Which is your favourite Shakespeare play?

Although I'm not fond of Shakespeare (tone down the gasps of outrage from the back rows), if I had to choose, it would be "Hamlet" and "Macbeth. My father was always fond of "The Tempest". I'm quite familiar with his works, but not a great fan of plays in general.

- Erulisse (one L)

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

1. Did quite a lot during my year-course at RADA; but my main memory is Shaw's Androcles and the Lion at school, when I played the lion (no lines to learn, but pivotal role - bliss!)

2. Too many, but amongst the top few: Caryl Churchill, Lorca (LOVE that guy), Shakespeare, Euripides and Ibsen.

3. About 20 times last year. This year we've been a bit more moderate, but still managed The Dazzle with Andrew Scott in January; and last week - Pinter's The Caretaker with Timothy Spall - 3 hours of amazingness.

4. Midsummer Night's Dream; the first one I ever saw aged about 7.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

No, I am and always was a crap actress :)

Oscar Wilde. I am a sucker and always will be for clever wordplay.

Yep, last year went to a Bollywoodised version of A Midsummer Nights Dream by students from the local university, and lots of fun it was too.

I don't think I have a favourite.... there's several I love for different reasons...

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I have been in several plays since 1996. Sadly just nothing for the last 4 years or so. :(

Hmm, I am not sure I could answer this one. I don't really know playwrites all that well. I should say, I probably know their work better then I know them. :p

I am sure I have been, but ask me what I saw, and I would draw a blank. LOL... It's been a little while now.
I am going to see The Lion King in July though. YAY... It will be the 3rd time seeing it. I LOVE it. :)

I haven't really seen a lot of Shakespeare, but I think I have to go with the classic Romeo and Juliet. I love the movie version from the 60s I think it was, not the newer one with Leo in it. My local community theater just did a musical version of it this past March. I skipped the production. Bleck...
Hugs, Jon

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

I did drama club in grade 10, and had a small part in The Helen Keller Story.

I don't know a lot of playwrights, so I'll stick with Shakespeare. I have seen more of his works performed than any others.

If you count musicals and operettas, then yes. A friend was in The Mikado, so I went to cheer her on.

Overall, I prefer the comedies, but I loved Kenneth Branagh's movie version of Henry V, and the best all-rounder as both a play and other art form is Romeo and Juliet (I love the ballet, set to that dramatic Prokofiev score).

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

Yes, was in The One Day of the Year in first year uni. (Putting it on was my idea and I organised everything, co-opted fellow students, and we practiced a lot - only to have one stuff up in our lines on the night - and I played a male character, 'Whacka'. Was in musicals at school before that (The Pirates of Penzance and Oklahoma) and before that wrote my own plays and co--opted my fellow students to act in it, culminating with being asked to put the play on for the Grade I kids :)

Hmmm...have no idea. Too many to choose from.

Ummm...sadly, probably not. Although I did go to a local play...probably more than ten years ago, now that I think of it :P

Do I have to? The only two I am really familiar with are The Merchant of Venice and Macbeth. I'll choose Macbeth, although I love Shylock's soliloquy 'If you prick us do we not bleed?' :) I think Hamlet may have been Shakespeare's greatest play.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Since I work for a theatre, these questions are a piece of cake.

Yes, the last show I actually worked in was a couple of years ago, though.

Ray Cooney, his later stuff rocks.

We were supposed to be there last night for Motown, but I bowed out.

Hamlet - no contest.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Yes...when I was real small. (Rocky Horror doesn't count, lol!)

Alas, I am ignorant about all things stage-related!

YES. We went to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra's 'Beethoven's Last Night'...EPIC. And two years before that, hubby and I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' when it swung through. :D

Twelfth Night, lol! But then, that is the only one I've seen performed!

*HUGS*

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

1. I have been a member of Actors Equity for over 30 years, acting in 60+ musicals, including several national tours. I've spent about 7 years in Andrew Lloyd Weber musicals.
2. Stephen Sondheim
3. Yes.
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream