Post Gazette: "It was Shakespeare who inspired the establishment of this theater festival in Western Ontario farm country in 1953 and who has sustained it ever since.
I have made the trek on and off for more than 30 years primarily to see his plays staged in Stratford's legendary style -- one without peer in North America. So, when productions don't meet expectations, it's a genuine letdown."
3 comments:
The descriptions that the author gives of the two Shakespeare's performed at this festival frustrate me just reading them. How does a production team commit such errors when producing a play! Macbeth described some major instances of discontinuity between a close reading of the script and the actual performance. It also highlighted some discontinuities within the performance itself. All these things both confuse the audience and misrepresent the important ideas in the play, and i don't understand how a director could interpret it this way. Thank you Foundations 1.
I feel that the main problems discussed with the Shakespeare plays in this article, derive from the directors' lack of specificity when defining a world. It seems that they let their desire to explore certain issues overwhelm them and that hindered them from developing a cohesive world of the play. I feel that as a designer, this is something to be mindful of. Is what I want to say exhausting the world I have created? And if so, how can I change my world to work with the message I am trying to convey
I think that the execution of Shakespeare's plays stand in stark contrast to the Three Sisters. It seems that Macbeth and Julius Caesar got too involved with changing up the show and got distracted from telling the story. Whereas Three Sisters brought the audience in and carried them through a story and let the audience get to know the characters, rather than alienating the audience with superfluous set pieces and awkward settings.
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