'Action is eloquence': (Re)thinking Shakespeare
@rethinkingshax
Modern performance, adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare on stage, screen, and beyond. Blog co-editors: @gemmaallred and @Ben_Broadribb. #RethinkingShax
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The #RethinkingShax team are grateful for the fascinating work theatre practitioners are doing to bring Shakespeare in performance to audiences in lockdown. Thank you! 🙂 You can find links to all of our #RethinkingLockdown articles in this thread, which we'll update regularly.
Is Home Alone an adaptation of King Lear? No. Did that stop me writing about the connections between the two? Also no. I hope you enjoy reading this blog as much as Kevin enjoys inflicting pain on Harry and Marv. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. medium.com/action-is-eloq…
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‘I made my family disappear’: Echoes and inversions of King Lear in Home Alone
Ben Broadribb explores the Shakespearean echoes to be found in a cinematic Christmas favourite, Chris Columbus’s 1990 film Home Alone.
It's been a (very) long time since I last wrote a blog, but I enjoyed putting together my thoughts on the unexpected presence of Macbeth in @RematchLive's immersive theatre production, Rumble in the Jungle: Rematch. Available to read at @rethinkingshax. medium.com/action-is-eloq…
"I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part." 2 Henry VI, 4.10.29-30 #ShakespeareSunday
JACK CADE: "My father was a Mortimer—" DICK THE BUTCHER: [Aside] "He was an honest man, and a good bricklayer." 2 Henry VI, 4.2.35-37 #ShakespeareSunday
"I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop" The Comedy of Errors, 1.2.33-34 #ShakespeareSunday
"This Martius is grown from man to dragon. He has wings; he’s more than a creeping thing." Coriolanus, 5.4.12-14 #ShakespeareSunday
"[M]y crown is called content: A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy." 3 Henry VI, 3.1.64-75. #ShakespeareSunday
"For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings." Sonnet 29, 13-14. #ShakespeareSunday
Rock Bottom is a genuinely funny, touching one-person show from @freshlifetheatr @charlie_actor. You can see it in locations around the UK in the coming months before it heads to New York! Here's my @rethinkingshax review from when I saw it back in 2021. medium.com/action-is-eloq…
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Review: Rock Bottom (directed by Charlie Day for Fresh Life Theatre)
Ben Broadribb reviews Charlie Day’s one-person show, featuring a twenty-first-century adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s Nick…
Everyone: When can I see Rock Bottom next Charlie? Do I have to fly to New York? Me: Nope... 🎭 Lion and Unicorn Theatre, #London 📅 Sun 14th May, 7.30pm 🎟 app.lineupnow.com/event/rock-bot…
"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!" King Lear, 3.2.1-3 #ShakespeareSunday
"Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle. He throws a thunderbolt. The Ghosts fall on their knees." Cymbeline, 5.4.94.1-2 #ShakespeareSunday
"Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries" A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3.1.172-3 #ShakespeareSunday
"I have a venturous fairy that shall seek The squirrel’s hoard and fetch thee new nuts." A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4.1.36-7 #ShakespeareSunday
"I am a rascal; a scurvy railing knave: a very filthy rogue." Troilus and Cressida, 5.4.27-8 #ShakespeareSunday
It's been a quiet year in terms of blogging for several reasons, but I'm planning to get back into regularly writing blogs in 2023. For now, here's something Christmassy I really enjoyed writing last year about Home Alone and King Lear. #rethinkingshax link.medium.com/xnMoDDudYvb
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‘I made my family disappear’: Echoes and inversions of King Lear in Home Alone
Ben Broadribb explores the Shakespearean echoes to be found in a cinematic Christmas favourite, Chris Columbus’s 1990 film Home Alone.
Want a FREE copy of ‘Shakespeare’s Blank Verse: An Alternative History’? *Retweet* this tweet and I’ll select a lucky winner from among the retweeters, at random, in a week’s time — they will be posted a free copy. @OUPAcademic
"The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns And push us from our stools." Macbeth, 3.4.94-98 #ShakespeareSunday
"Up and down, up and down, I will lead them up and down. I am feared in field and town. Goblin, lead them up and down." A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3.2.397-400 #ShakespeareSunday
Is Karen Maine's Rosaline the screen adaptation that will finally get me back into blogging after an extended hiatus for most of this year? Yes, I believe it will be...
"Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all; What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call; All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more." Sonnet 40, 1-4. #ShakespeareSunday
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