I actually was talking about a play-by-play basis. Here's my opinion, based on plays I have seen produced. Now, of course, the argument can be made that a great production can help a mediocre script, but I don't know that I buy that - if a production is great, there was probably something great in the script. Of course a bad production....
Great: Henry II, Henry IV part 2, Henry V, Richard III, Henry VI 1,2,3, Macbeth, Hamlet, 12th Night, Titus, Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Taming of the Shrew,
Decent: Henry IV part 1, Midsummer's, R&J (barely made it into good...awesomely stupid plot about awesomely stupid people, but lots of great speeches and fights), Lear (sorry Tom, but I still don't love this script, or enough of the writing, or the characters. In fact, if it weren't for you, this would prolly be down in 'bad'), Comedy of Errors (okay, dumb but funny), Measure for Measure (a very dark 'comedy'), Much Ado about Nothing,
Bad: Coriolanus (bad writing, though I love the blood), King John (right, a good first half, and one line that has become common parlance in corruption), Winter's Tale (2 okay plays that go poorly together), All's Well (icky people, dumb plot), As you Like It (stupid stupid stupid), Love's Labors Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor
Don't know: Timon of Athens (though the plot has always sounded cool to me), Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, Pericles, Two Noble Kinsmen, 2 Gentlemen.
Am I missing any? So, I have 17 great, 7 decent, 7 bad, of the 31 that I have at least seen.
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Date: 2007-03-23 06:24 pm (UTC)Great:
Henry II, Henry IV part 2, Henry V, Richard III, Henry VI 1,2,3, Macbeth, Hamlet, 12th Night, Titus, Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Taming of the Shrew,
Decent:
Henry IV part 1, Midsummer's, R&J (barely made it into good...awesomely stupid plot about awesomely stupid people, but lots of great speeches and fights), Lear (sorry Tom, but I still don't love this script, or enough of the writing, or the characters. In fact, if it weren't for you, this would prolly be down in 'bad'), Comedy of Errors (okay, dumb but funny), Measure for Measure (a very dark 'comedy'), Much Ado about Nothing,
Bad: Coriolanus (bad writing, though I love the blood), King John (right, a good first half, and one line that has become common parlance in corruption), Winter's Tale (2 okay plays that go poorly together), All's Well (icky people, dumb plot), As you Like It (stupid stupid stupid), Love's Labors Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor
Don't know: Timon of Athens (though the plot has always sounded cool to me), Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, Pericles, Two Noble Kinsmen, 2 Gentlemen.
Am I missing any?
So, I have 17 great, 7 decent, 7 bad, of the 31 that I have at least seen.