Not really sure why this was written, to tell the truth.
As almost always with plays, it is certainly better seen than read.more The necessity of including the music seems to have been a bit of a headache from the production side, but the actors take it in stride and project, so the words are still well heard.
I read the script four times last week, gonna do it four more times this week, then four final times next week, and I'm convinced I'll still pick up new things by closing Sunday (running lights and sound, huzzah). The necessity of including the music seems to have been a bit of a headache from the production side, but the actors take it in stride and project, so the words ar This is currently running at Ohio Shakespeare Festival, and I'm in love all over again. This is currently running at Ohio Shakespeare Festival, and I'm in love all over again. As it stands, I think it is darn good.more When it comes down to it, “Shakespeare in Love” is a love letter to the theater and to Shakespeare, so it would have to be pretty awful for me not to enjoy it. Good performers have to add a lot of flesh to them. This was a hallmark of the film as well, but some really clever bits have been added to the stage play.Ī criticism of the text, its characterizations are pretty surface on the page. I really enjoyed the many clever allusions to Shakespeare’s work scattered throughout the text. The play is for a smaller more select group, it reflects that. I do feel that the play assumes a lot of the audience, where the film did a little better job of filling in gaps that the general moviegoer might have had in knowledge. Taking what he could from the screenplay adapting, cutting, augmenting, and adding to it as needed to make this story work on stage is not an easy task, but one I think he handled successfully. Lee Hall adapted the stage script of “Shakespeare in Love” from the brilliant screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, and Hall did a nice job of it. I only dream of being alive.”įirst off, my rating for this play is colored by my experience of seeing the first production in North America at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada. Taking what he could from the screenplay adapting, cutting, augmenting, and adding to it as needed to make this stor “None can be immortal. I only dream of being alive.” First off, my rating for this play is colored by my experience of seeing the first production in North America at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada.
A Broadway transfer is planned for Spring 2015.more The London production is directed by Declan Donnellan and designed by Nick Ormerod, the driving force behind the world-renowned theatre company, Cheek by Jowl.
Based on the Oscar-winning screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love has been deftly adapted for the stage by Lee Hall and has been playing to rave reviews and a sold-out theatre at the Noël Coward in London. Their forbidden love soon draws everyone, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama, and inspires Will to write the greatest love story of all time: Romeo and Juliet. Based on Plagued by debt, tormented by writer’s block and in desperate need of a new hit, promising new playwright Will Shakespeare finds his muse in the form of passionate young noblewoman Viola De Lesseps. Plagued by debt, tormented by writer’s block and in desperate need of a new hit, promising new playwright Will Shakespeare finds his muse in the form of passionate young noblewoman Viola De Lesseps.
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