You like R&J? woah. Aside from having the best villain in all of Shakespeare (best in that he gets away with arranging the murder of a slew of folks, and nobody ever even accuses him of more than being an idiot), and having a bunch of great speeches, really that story torques me off. It would make a logical commedia scenario, but for regular people to be that dumb makes me not really care that they all die.
And you don't like Blood of a Nation?! (Which is what I call Henry VI 1,2,3 - we did a combined production of them with that subtitle) That has awesomeness! It has a great theme ("Be careful what you wish for" plus "What goes around comes around"). And it has such great swings for the audience. We feel really sad when Richard kills Clifford. Poor old guy. And we totally get behind Young Clifford vowing revenge. And killing a bunch of soldiers. But when he catches Rutland (10 year old boy) being escorted off the field and brutally murders him, saying essentially, "Hey audience - you're the ones who cheered when I said I would have fitting revenge, if they didn't spare our old men, why should I spare their babes?", audiences find themselves re-examining whose side they are on. Which is awesome, because it flips back the other way a few acts later, until in the end we finally come to the conclusion that vengence is a bad idea. Really powerful stuff. Plus Warwick, with his speech telling Henry VI that he should run away, Henry says something like 'well, you were the one who fled at our last battle at suchaplace', and Warwick says his awesome line: "Then it was my turn to flee. Now its yours." Plus Margaret with her twisted hatred. And for people who like that sort of thing there's the whole Joan of Arc thing.
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Date: 2007-03-23 11:00 pm (UTC)And you don't like Blood of a Nation?! (Which is what I call Henry VI 1,2,3 - we did a combined production of them with that subtitle) That has awesomeness! It has a great theme ("Be careful what you wish for" plus "What goes around comes around"). And it has such great swings for the audience. We feel really sad when Richard kills Clifford. Poor old guy. And we totally get behind Young Clifford vowing revenge. And killing a bunch of soldiers. But when he catches Rutland (10 year old boy) being escorted off the field and brutally murders him, saying essentially, "Hey audience - you're the ones who cheered when I said I would have fitting revenge, if they didn't spare our old men, why should I spare their babes?", audiences find themselves re-examining whose side they are on. Which is awesome, because it flips back the other way a few acts later, until in the end we finally come to the conclusion that vengence is a bad idea. Really powerful stuff. Plus Warwick, with his speech telling Henry VI that he should run away, Henry says something like 'well, you were the one who fled at our last battle at suchaplace', and Warwick says his awesome line: "Then it was my turn to flee. Now its yours." Plus Margaret with her twisted hatred.
And for people who like that sort of thing there's the whole Joan of Arc thing.