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May. 29th, 2006 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerI saw PERICLES at the Shakespeare Theatre free-for-all tonight and it was every bit as wonderful and moving as it was the first time I saw it last year. Dear lord, I say again, it might be the best show I've ever seen at Shakespeare Theatre. All the more amazing considering that the script itself is utterly horrible. Anybody who decries TITUS ANDRONICUS as Shakespeare's worst play has never read PERICLES or TIMON OF ATHENS. I'm still not sure if that latter can ever be done entertainingly.
I don't know if I could ever do a production of PERICLES that could even come close to matching this version. Like the movie of TITUS, I think it might be the last word. But if I ever *did* do one, I'd like to do the physicial/healer as Miracle Max from THE PRINCESS BRIDE. For god's sake, that whole scene was totally, "She's only mostly dead!"
This play was so good, I may have to drag Bloo out to see it next Sunday after my second matinee of THE DAVID DANCE.
Oh yeah, I neglected to mention... Bloo's coming down to DC this week for four days! SQUEE!
I don't know if I could ever do a production of PERICLES that could even come close to matching this version. Like the movie of TITUS, I think it might be the last word. But if I ever *did* do one, I'd like to do the physicial/healer as Miracle Max from THE PRINCESS BRIDE. For god's sake, that whole scene was totally, "She's only mostly dead!"
This play was so good, I may have to drag Bloo out to see it next Sunday after my second matinee of THE DAVID DANCE.
Oh yeah, I neglected to mention... Bloo's coming down to DC this week for four days! SQUEE!
