#macbeth (2023-2024)

[ahauandthesun]

INDIRA VARMA as Lady Macbeth Macbeth (2023-2024)

[ralphfiennes-only]

Ralph Fiennes will star as Macbeth and Indira Varma will star as Lady Macbeth in an intimate new production of William Shakespeare’s MACBETH which will open in Liverpool this November.

Directed by Simon Goodwin. [x]

[foxsoulcourt]

Recent review from London Theatre

First look at David Tennant in Macbeth

Photographed by Marc Brenner

[davidtennantedits]

David Tennant as Macbeth MACBETH Donmar Warehouse Theatre (8th December 2023 - 10th February 2024)

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Macbeth (Photoset Part 4) Donmar Warehouse, December 2023 - February 2024

Photographer: Marc Brenner

Link to [ Part One ] [ Part Two ] [ Part Three ]

[thoughtfulfangirling]

2025 Reads

Another number ticked upward on our clocks, a new list to begin. For previous years' lists, start with 2024's list which links to 2023 and so on.

!Macbeth - Shakespeare

Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng

!To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

^All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business - Mel Brooks

^!The Art of War - Sun Tzu translated by Victor Mair

Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorator

~*Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

^Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - James W. Loewen

^Why Civil Reistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict - Erica Chenoweth & Maria Stephan

!The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K Le Guin

^The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party - Daniel James Brown

Halfling - S.E. Wendel

~!Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

!Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

~!Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen

^Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer - James L Swanson

The Sun and the Void - Gabriela Romero Lacruz

^A (Brief) History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization - Robert Evans

The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson

The Silver Metal Lover - Tanith Lee

^Debt: The First 5,000 Years - David Graeber

^The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave Experiments - Gina Perry

!Dune - Frank Herbert

!The One and Future King - T.H. White

^Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments - Gina Perry

^Men Who Hate Women - Laura Bates

!I,Robot - Isaac Asimov

^Disney-War - James B. Stewart

*Unmasked by the Marquess - Cat Sebastian

Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

~*Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

!Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis

^Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts - Rebecca Hall

^The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I - Lindsey Fitzharris

^Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism - Sarah Wynn-Williams

^Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights - Kenji Yoshino

~The Sapling Cage - Margaret Killjoy

!The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien

^Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel

Cats in Space - Bill Fawcett (anthology)

~*All Systems Red - Martha Wells

^The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet - John Green

The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

~*Artificial Condition - Martha Wells

^Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference - Cordelia Fine

The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields

Broken Harbor - Tana French

Last updated 5/24

Currently reading: Iron Widow (print)

! = A Classic * = Reread ^ = Nonfiction ~ = Read with Empty

My Goal this year is to read Classics! And get a more rounded feel for the things that have shaped the media we see today!

[boudicca]

tagged by @vechter and @blueberripancake my beloveds

if you have a tbr list/pile (books/comics/poetry/etc):

what title(s) are you currently reading?

books:

i have a terrible habit of starting novels and not finishing them lately so current books i have on the go are norwegian wood, brothers karamazov, brideshead revisited, emma, and i just started rereading the raven boys again. my 2025 goal is to finish a goddamn book

non-fiction is currently ekaterinburg by helen rappaport! she's absolutely one of my fav historians to read because her writing is so dynamic

comics:

for ongoing comics, batgirl (2024) (SUPREME!!!), green arrow (2023), poison ivy (2022), black canary: best of the best (2024), and scarlet witch (whatever year that is because it keeps restarting)

my back issue reading however... none. i finished my post-crisis spreadsheet and now i'm free. until i start my new 52 reading list at least

what title(s) are up next on your reading list?

books: see above... raven boys first and then brideshead next

comics: unfortunately delfis has convinced me to read new 52 nightwing so i guess that 🤸 but also i will be reading for damian wayne so that's various titles but i'm excited for that

what title(s) are your emotional support TBRs and you’re planning to get around to them. One day. When the stars align?

oh god. uhhh comics i don't really have one of these but for books. good lord. my tbr doesn't exist in writing because it's too long for that. crime and punishment, jane eyre, wuthering heights, northanger abbey, merchant of venice, taming of the shrew, macbeth, london by edward rutherfurd, white nights, the idiot, the goldfinch, rebecca, spqr by mary beard, cassandra by christa wolf, the winternight trilogy, about a dozen history books, another half-dozen novels i own but haven't read yet......

have you taken anything out of your TBR pile recently, and why?

clearly not... clearly not

tagging ummm i don't know who's been tagged yet. @zaubermaerchen @murderballadeer @moxieestar @dustorange @dykedatasoong @lesbianboyfriend @angelozi

[hayruteles]

Can you please talk about your current fandoms and why you like them???

Okay, alright

Let's start

1) Tolkien Legendarium (since February 2024)

I'm a linguistics, most likely philology nerd and this man created TONS OF LANGUAGES just for he got bored and wrote an creation myth to his OC's

I love the whole Arda in general, it doesn't matter which time the story takes place or where it takes place

However my favourite time period of all is between Y.T 1495 and F.A 590

I even made a whole presentation about The High Kings of Ñoldor in literature class and I got an 100 🙂

2) DC Comics (since 2022(partially 2015-2016))

DC is a total mess.

Completely, it is a mess when you're both trying to watch something or read something

No order, no logical explanations, everything is in chaos

God, I love it

Especially Batfam

This city and family is full of angst and tragedy

They're full of traumas, yet family chaos, psychological issues and tons of responsibilities which shouldn't be on their shoulders

I adore them

Jason and Tim are my babies and that's all thanks for listening to me

3) Marvel Cinematic Universe (Infinity Saga+some of phase 4 series) (since 2021(partially 2015-2016))

First of all I'm a #teamstark

And this was the top of my teenager obsessions at one time

MCU has an order, everything is planned and on a plane

If you're interested in this you easily may connect so many dots and understand a whole

I loved MCU for its domestic and friendly vibes

4) Shakespeare Tragedies (since April 2023)

I'm a theater kid, really

I'm in the theatre club of my school and I've been in 5 or 6 plays since 2023 and by the next week, I'll be performing a play in Arabic which is my 3rd language.

I love reading theatre texts and especially Shakespeare, for his chaos and tragedies.

Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and many other

I really love tragedies

5) Jujutsu Kaisen (since July 2024)

This is totally because of my bff who was currently obsessed with it at that time.

God, I love tragedies and domestic stuff at the same time, I know BUT WHAT GEGE DID WAS UNFAIR

I'm kinda traumatised by the end of it

6) Harry Potter (since May 2019)

I don't even follow or do stuff about this but this was the first fandom which I got in contact with real people instead of myself again.

So it's here

7) Gravity Falls

It is a classic at this point. Same things with 6

8) Heathers the Musical (since June 2023)

I LOVE musicals. Me myself is kinda musical and this was the very first musical I've ever watched and also it was the first video which I didn't watch with Turkish subtitles

Full of chaos, teenage bullshit, musical numbers and also CHAOS

Hehe

9) Hazbin Hotel

Also a musical, same with 8

10) Miraculous Ladybug and Chat Noir

Tragedical issues, same with 4-5

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Those are my fandomish fandom if you ask,

However I'm not sure my current and newest obsession can be counted as a fandom

~Football~ (since June 2024(partially 2015-2018, 2020-2022))

I'm a Beşiktaş supporter

I've always known something about football but I was younger than and when I was preparing for big exams in my life, I put aside football.

This year I turned back with EURO2024 and I really was thinking of stopping it there but because of boredom and some gossiping issues I started to consume things with football once again in July and I'm sure it was a fault by these two months that we have passed

Beşiktaş may be getting too tiring, you know?

And being obsessed with football is not so easy especially if the management of your favorite team is in terrible chaos

It is also tiring if your national team is in kind of a chaos too

[blogdeepbelieverbouquetworld]

Macbeth 2023&2024

India Chadwick

[blizzard-of-ozz]

《★~ Into Post ~★ 》

My name is Ozzy, I am trans and go by He/They pronouns. I'm from 🇺🇸, sadly. I have Autism, ADHD, and severe anxiety. I aspire to be Catholic.

Some emojis that describe me:

🏳️‍⚧️🦇✍️🌈🫀🥀⭐️📽️📚

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Main Fandoms (💚 = active)

- Doctor Who ( 1963/2005 TV series) 💚

- The X-Files (1993 TV series)

- Maurice (1914 Book/1987 Film) 💚

- Dead Boy Detectives (2024 TV series)

- Shoot From The Hip (British Improv Group) 💚

- The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1890 Book) 💚

- Our Flag Means Death (2022 TV series)

- Fight Club (1996 Book/1999 Film) 💚

- Good Omens (2019 TV series)

- Interview With The Vampire (2022 TV series) 💚

- The Thick Of It (2005 TV series)

- Broadchurch (2013 TV series)

- Horrible Histories (2009 TV series/1994 Book series) 💚

- Yonderland (2013 TV series) 💚

- Ghosts (2019 TV series) 💚

- Red, White, and Royal Blue (2023 Film/2019 Book)

- Young Royals (2021 TV series)

- Heartstopper (2022 TV series)

- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818 Book) 💚

- Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599 Play) 💚

- Star Wars 💚

Feel free to talk to me about any of those !!

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Some random things I like:

- Antiques !!

- Poetry

- History

- Shakespeare (My fav play is Macbeth and my fav sonnet is sonnet 130)

My other socials:

CapCut- blizzard_of_ozz

Spotify- blizzard-of-ozz

Letterboxd- blizzard_of_ozz

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I love writing, reading, film, and literature.

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My Fav Bands !!

- The Smiths

- The Cure

- Belle and Sebastian

- The Sex Pistols

- Depeche Mode

- New Order

- Joy Division

- The Pet Shop Boys

- Wham!

- Siouxsie and the Banshees

- Bauhaus

- Duran Duran

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I'll probs add more to this when I get more ideas, but yeah.

[ahauandthesun]

MACBETH (2023-2024) dir. by Simon Godwin Ralph Fiennes as Macbeth Indira Varma as Lady Macbeth

[michaelcoffeysthoughts]

Favorite First Time Watches of 2024

Favorite pre-2024 films watched for the first time in 2024:

All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The Battle of Algiers (1966) dir. Gillo Pontecorvo

Black Narcissus (1947) dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

Boyz n the Hood (1991) dir. John Singleton

Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-Wai

The Deer Hunter (1978) dir. Michael Cimino

Dr. Caligari (1989) dir. Stephen Sayadian

Donnie Darko (2001) dir. Richard Kelly

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) dir. Howard Hawks

The Heartbreak Kid (1972) dir. Elaine May

Heat (1995) dir. Michael Mann

The Heroic Trio (1993) dir. Johnnie To

The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino

The Intruder (1962) dir. Roger Corman

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) dir. Elio Petri

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) dir. Chad Stahelski

Macbeth (1948) dir. Orson Welles

May (2002) dir. Lucky McKee

Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook

Out of Sight (1998) dir. Steven Soderbergh

Poor Things (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

Portrait of Jason (1967) dir. Shirley Clarke

Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985) dir. George Butler

Serial Mom (1994) dir. John Waters

The Seventh Juror (1962) dir. Georges Lautner

Shock Troops (1967) dir. Costa-Gavras

Southern Comfort (1981) dir. Walter Hill

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) dir. Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson & Joaquim Dos Santos

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Macbeth Donmar Warehouse, December 2023 - February 2024

Photographer: Marc Brenner

[myhikari21things]

TRCC Readathon Reads

Will update as needed

Gravitation 4-Maki Murakami (1997) (214pgs)

When Haru Was There-Dustin Thao (2024) (290pgs)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles-Agatha Christie (1920) (212pgs)

Lady Macbeth-Ava Reid (2024) (295pgs)

Mothered-Zoje Stage (2023) (301pgs)

What Have You Done?-Shari Lapena (2024) (306pgs)

Inuyasha 1 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1997) (180pgs)

Inuyasha 2 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1997) (188pgs)

Inuyasha 3 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1997) (194pgs)

Inuyasha 4 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1998) (184pgs)

Inuyasha 5 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1998) (188pgs)

Inuyasha 6 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1998) (186pgs)

Inuyasha 7 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1998) (188pgs)

Inuyasha 8 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1998) (186pgs)

Inuyasha 9 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1999) (186pgs)

Inuyasha 10 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1999) (184pgs)

Inuyasha 11 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1999) (184pgs)

Inuyasha 12 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1999) (186pgs)

Inuyasha 13 Japanese-Rumiko Takahashi (1999) (186pgs)

[unforgivablengk]

Don't get your hopes up too much about getting some post-strike goodies. Here's what would have to change or be worked around:

1 - Michael has been absent from Twitter for a week and a half after his comments on Palestine and the resulting replies. I don't know if he will return. 2 - David has begun rehersals for MacBeth and will be performing 8 December 2023 - 10 February 2024. That doesn't mean there won't be time for interviews, but it might make it more complicated. 3 - They have to be asked to do publicity. It is part of their contract, but a lot of the outlets have moved on to more recent productions or upcoming productions. Hopefully someone will.

[cinemaocd]

Jenny's ongoing list of films watched 2024

February

January list, here.

Inland Empire (2006)*** It took three attempts to get through this long, confusing film. Like Mulholland Drive or the Season Three of Twin Peaks, Lynch films improve on repeat viewings even if meaning remains elusive. That is part of the joy-- sometimes you just vibe with it.

Death of Stalin (2017)**** One of my favorite films of the last two decades. A harried farce with the bloody-mindedness of Macbeth. Like the Scottish Play, we know how its going to come out, but the fun is in watching the articulate villain, played with delicious malice by Simon Russell Beale being outdone by a team of bumbling, petty bureaucrats and one very bad ass soldier. The Boyfriend (1970)*** Ken Russell's surreal tribute to the burlesque musical genre makes the most of its setting in the 1920s by putting his star Twiggy in iconic psychadelic reiterations of the flapper dress. If you opine the fact that drop waist dresses come back into style every 15 years or so, then this movie is as much to blame as anything. Poor Things (2023)*** Emma Stone gives a wild and convincing physical performance as Bella, a baby's brain in the body of her dead mother and Mark Ruffalo as typical 19th Century Rake Getting His Comeupance iscasting I didn't know I needed. I loved the yearning Godwin (Willem Defoe in truly amazing Frankenstein's monster makeup) and though I haven't read the book, I was drawn into the grotesque, ai generated world of the film. The aesthetics of this movie are as engrossing as the story and characters. Adventures of a Dentist (1965)** The Soviet version of the live action Disney comedies of the 70s, where a humble person is given magical power. Here a dentist is given extraordinary, almost magical abilities to perform dentistry without pain. He becomes a celebrity and his fall from grace involves him giving in to the decadent trappings of being a popular dentist. The humor has a darker edge than Disney though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a black comedy. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973)** This Spike Milligan film plays like a double episode of Dad's Army, not least because of the presence of Arthur Lowe who plays practically the same character here as he does on the tv show. That is not the end of the world however and this is easy to like farce with Milligan's ascerbic, anti-authoritarian bent that is grittier than anything on the sitcom. The Master (2012)** I had high hopes for this, one of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's final films and his last collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson is loosely based on the origin story of Scientology. Joaquin Phoenix plays a shell shocked veteran who drifts into the path of the cult leader played by Hoffman. Amy Adams gives a chilling performance as his much younger, controlling wife who is the real power behind the cult. I think I would have an easier time with this film if Anderson hadn't gone around giving interviews saying that Scientology and it's founder L. Ron Hubbard had "helped a lot of people." Of course, this is PTA and Phoenix's character isn't helped at all and he makes the cult worse by being a violent enforcer for the leader's enemies. The levels of whitewashing involved in making a deeply misogynistic cult into a secret matriarchy is just...ugh. However, the homoerotic tension between Hoffman and Phoenix makes the film worth looking out. Murder of Quality (1991)** Made for TV adaptation of John Le Carre's second novel. Denholm Elliott plays Smiley as more doddering and anti-social than Alec Guinness' iconic version of the character. This early Smiley story is more a traditional English village murder mystery, ala Miss Marple, with Glenda Jackson playing Ailsa, Smiley's war buddy that runs a women's magazine. Christian Bale plays one of the students at an elite prep school that forms the economic backbone of the town. Le Carre is merciless in his portrayal of the toxic, petty characters, the wealthy and wannabe wealthy swamp dwellers who run rings around the local constabulary until Smilley steps in and withstands their slings and arrows long enough to solve the case.

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)*** Sometimes you sit down to watch a movie with such low expectations that you are pleasantly surprised that it doesn't totally suck. The excitement of things not being as bad as you feared can blot out some of a movie's excesses. At the end of the day this is Billy Wilder, physically incapable of creating a boring movie throwing the whole bag of tricks at this faux biography of Holmes starring Robert Stephens and Colin Blakely. There's farce and physical comedy, verbal gymnastics and exotic locations. Holmes' possible homosexuality is tastefully hinted at and attempts to create a sensationalist account of his drug use, amount to little before the mystery gets rolling. One of the big delights is Christopher Lee as Mycroft whose scenes with Robert Stephens are bitchy queen pissing contests. Genevieve Page does a turn as a would be damsel in distress who turns out to be a worthy opponent to Holmes similar to Irene Adler.

Irma La Duce (1963)*** For some reason between this and Poor Things I ended up watching two movies about Parisian brothels this month. Billy Wilder based this pastiche of 1950s travelogue adventure films like To Catch a Thief and Charade on a French stage play. A strange attempt to weld the success of the Apartment with Some Like it Hot, reconfiguring a Marilyn Monroe vehicle as a reunion of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Like the Apartment, Irma LaDuce is tinged with melancholy while avoiding a lot of the cliches about sex work that wind up dating so many films on this topic. The main complaint I have about Irma LaDuce s that it's about 45 minutes too long, a common complaint about many films of this period. (Damn Lawrence of Arabia and all who sail in her).

Witness for the Prosecution (1982)*** A made for tv adaptation of the classic courtroom drama, which credits Billy Wilder's screenplay of his film version. Ralph Richardson and Deborah Kerr star in this remake and honestly their chemistry is just off the charts and we're left to wonder how they never managed to make a film together before. Wendy Hiller, Diana Rigg and Beau Bridges round out the amazing cast. Lacks the tension and edge of Wilder's film but I'm having too much fun with Ralph to care.

The Major and the Minor (1942)**: Billy Wilder's first film as writer and director has some of the hallmarks of his later, greater works: farce, trains, mistaken identity, and queer themes in the form of a lesbian coded sister of Ginger Roger's romantic rival. That all the fuss is about fairly bland Ray Milland is easy enough to overlook as Wilder makes the film about toying with Rogers image as sophisticated, sexy, dancer. Typical Wilder inside jokes about the film industry abound, such as a craze for Veronica Lake hairdos among the tween set and swipes at Hollywood actors like Charles Boyer Rogers' childish masquerade to avoid paying full adult fare is preceded by a series of calamities where she's pursued and objectified by a lot of nasty older men. Hoping to escape their advances as well as the ignominity of turnstyle jumping, she maintains the charade through a long weekend with a lot of handsy tween boys until Milland's fiancee is discredited as a controlling social climber. There is a bizarre side track into her home town where Rogers also impersonates her mother before revealing her grown adult self to Milland. No one ever accused Billy Wilder of being restrained I guess.

The Children's Hour (1961)**** This classic of queer cinema was necessarily a scorched earth tragedy at the time of its release. William Wyler's dreamy, restless camera drags you into the warm, cozy life of this female partnership between Shirley Maclaine and Audrey Hepburn that seemingly has the potential to be a romantic partnership. When nasty gossips and spoiled children start a rumor that they are a couple, the scandal destroys their business and standing in the community. Terrorized by the homophobic townspeople, they are eventually "cleared" of the crime of being gay for each other, just when Maclaine's character comes to the brutal realization that she really is in love with Audrey Hepburn's character. It's hard to watch her grief and shame as she admits that the bullies have discovered a truth about her that she didn't know herself. A fact so many queer people can find relatable. The film is based on a play by Lilian Hellman which used the topic of homosexuality to expose the cruelty of female narcissists who bully their way into power. There is much in common with Hellman's The Little Foxes in that way, but the film, perhaps owing to Wyler's inherent romanticism has more of a Romeo and Juliet quality than the play. One feels that Audrey Hepburn has perhaps realized the truth in the lie, just a few moments too late.

Sweet Charity (1969)*** Directed by Bob Fosse, starring Shirley MacLaine and Sammy Davis Jr and Chita Rivera this classic musical combines the best of Fossee's signature choreography, sixties pop show tunes and the psychadelic aesthetics of the late 60s. This and the Boyfriend have a lot in common, though I think the music in Sweet Charity is more solid and the contemporary setting makes it a tad edgier. MacLaine plays yet another flavor of sex worker, a dancehall hostess and paid companion who seeks to be elevated out of her life into respectability through marriage. The fiancee here is uptight and lacking in appeal and when he finally just flakes out in the final reel it's no great loss to the film.

Thief (1981)** Atypical heist film starring James Caan and Jim Belushi, directed by Miama Vice creator Michael Mann. You can see the beginnings of that iconic 80s TV show, in this movie which favors long scenes of action being edited to music with sparse dialog. Caan squares off against Tom Signorelli a local mob boss who dares to threaten Caan's wife played by Tuesday Weld.