#rsc romeo and juliet

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant as Romeo in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet (2000) - Part Fourteen

Photo credits include:  Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, photostage.co.uk, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and more

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[david-tennant-in-chairs]

Romeo demonstrates how to (unsuccessfully) hide from one's responsibilities

[emotinalsupportturtle]

Loosing my mind over this…

[thebirdandhersong]

Hal was played by a tiny, slender, birdlike wisp of a woman and she did SUCH a good job of creating this uncertain, anxious, unsure but strangely bold teenage interpretation of him

[d1rthaus]

David Tennant and Alexandra Gilbreath for the RSC’s Romeo and Juliet (2000)

[aq2003]

I've had a vague urge to get more into Shakespeare for years; what are the top 3-5 plays you'd recommend that AREN'T Hamlet or Much Ado? And what version of each is your favorite?

(sorry for omitting two god tier ones but I've already seen David Tennant in each of those and I surmise that you're insane about both so I'm looking for some new plays)

gonna be some basic bitch answers but here:

macbeth - the tragedy of macbeth (2021) movie adaptation starring denzel washington. this movie is fucking stunning and the way they did the witches was SO good. also i have the throne of blood (kurosawa's adaptation) also on my watchlist since i've heard REALLY good things about it

richard ii - 2013 rsc production w/ david tennant (link). he gives me catastrophic gender envy, i need to become more masculine to become more feminine etc. ben whishaw in the hollow crown series (link) is great too

romeo and juliet - romeo + juliet (1996) movie adaptation directed by baz luhrmann. this is like, the most well known romeo and juliet and you might've watched it already but i'm listing this anyway because there will never be a better mercutio and the way they did the setting is SO fucking funny and inspired

twelfth night - so far only saw this one Outside On The Grass Where They Performed This At My College but i liked it a lot... reccing the 2012 globe production with mark rylance (part 1 / part 2) (his hamlet was one of dt's favorites as an aspiring actor) (i'm putting my faith in letterboxd and david's taste for this one)

coriolanus - 2014 donmar production w/ tom hiddleston (on archive.org). this is directed by josie rourke, who also directed dt/ct's 2011 much ado! the staging and the effects are fucking awesomeeee (also peter de jersey and elliot levey are in this, i love them)

also shoutout to the ones i want to watch:

the 2016 production of a midsummer night's dream w/ ncuti gatwa (i have found nowhere to pirate it and i might just crack and pay the 10 dollars to watch it)

the 2015 production of the love's labour's lost w/ edward bennett (he played laertes in hamlet (2009) and he's REALLY underrated, i love his benedick SO FUCKING MUCH even if that production overall was a little dull)

either hollow crown's or greg doran's henry iv (it's two whole plays i need so much time to watch that. and ideally i want to watch both lol)

kurosawa's ran (1985), an adaptation of king lear set in 1500s japan

vishal bhardwaj's omkara (2006), an adaptation of othello set in india

[thealogie]

Also, someone sent the list here a while ago but the Romeo and Juliet recording is available at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, along with his other RSC performances‼️

Well I’m going to fucking Stratford upon Avon I guess

[im-the-queen-of-stardust]

Absolute travesty to find out there's a whole archive for Shakespeare that apparently has copies of all kinds of Shakespeare RSC performances including - and this is most important to me - Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It with David Tennant?? But of course as far as I can tell these are not part of their online catalogue so I'd actually have to inquire about it via email to probably find out there's no way for me to access this outside of the UK. What would I even write to them, I'm not a Shakespeare scholar or anything. I just like Shakespeare and David Tennant and would really like to see those plays. I'd buy a DVD of that! Why make it so hard for me?!

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant as Romeo in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet (2000) - Part Fifteen

Photo credits include:  Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, photostage.co.uk, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and more

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[limbobilbo]

Examples include: romeo+juliet, the jesus christ superstar with tim minchin, the RSC’s hamlet and king lear productions.

[shakespearenews]

But is it a provocation, really? Some might call it the “reduced” Shakespeare Company, and scream sacrilege. Even as a lover of the plays in all their messy fullness, I do not see it as any bad thing. There can be an exhilarating focus to a short show. Some trimmed-down Shakespeares – such as Simon Godwin’s Romeo and Juliet – are every bit as rich as the originals, if done well, and not every staging of Much Ado About Nothing has to have its protracted comic interludes with Dogberry and his gang.

[so-true-jestie]

who're you, then?

@only-martha-knows gave me the chance to talk about me and i couldn't resist.

Three ships: Benedick & Beatrice, Peter & MJ, someone who will appreciate my literary obsessions & myself. just kidding; Anne & Gilbert.

First ever ship: Percabeth. gotta love a classic.

Last song: Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations.

Last movie: Wakanda Forever, which was sort of formulaic but with a brilliant soundtrack.

Currently reading: Hamlet and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford. (two different books. Hamlet doesn't find love in a cold climate. or does he?)

Currently consuming: the BBC mockumentary Cunk on Earth and i stopped halfway through RSC's Romeo & Juliet. also, strawberry yoghurt.

Currently craving: Victoria sponge cake with some proper cream. for once.

in the spirit of sharing: @2nd-mushroom-circle @morethanfantasy @taciturn-nerd @lightningladybug

[totallytrucked]

DANIEL DAY LEWIS IN RSC ROMEO AND JULIET REGIONAL TOUR 1983 !!!!

sowwy about watermarks

[karmaphone]

on my knees BEGGING someone to help me find that version of Romeo + Juliet where they're speedrunning it and playing up the comedy I'm pretty sure it's by the rsc but I'm not sure I NEED it I need to show my wife