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I don’t know exactly what blorbo means but I made this
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It is Tennant who then produces, with a flourish, the key question about the Macbeths: “Why do they decide to commit a crime? What is the fatal flaw that allows them to think that’s OK? I don’t know that they, as characters, would even know. Has the loss of a child destabilised their morality?” In preparation, Tennant and Jumbo have been researching post-traumatic stress disorder. “PTSD is a modern way of understanding something that’s always been there,” suggests Tennant – and the Macbeths are traumatised three times over by battle, bereavement and murder. “We’ve looked at postpartum psychosis as well,” Jumbo adds. They have been amazed at how the findings of modern experts “track within the play”. Tennant marvels aloud: “What can Shakespeare’s own research process have been?” Jumbo reminds him that Shakespeare, like the Macbeths, lost a child. She relishes the play’s “contemporary vibe which means it’s something my 14-year-old niece will want to see. Even though you know the ending, you don’t want it to go there. It’s exciting to play that as well as to watch it.”
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Peter Cushing as Osric in Laurence Olivier's HAMLET, 1948
When I watched this movie for the first time, I was delighted to see Peter Cushing in it! He plays the effete, foppish courtier who comes to Hamlet with Laertes' "friendly" fencing challenge. Although he plays Osric for laughs, even doing a hair-raising pratfall backwards down some stairs, Cushing gives Laertes a sinister knowing glance in the fencing match later on, when he hands him the poisoned blade.
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This is supposed to look like a carte de visite
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William Barker Cushing's birthday countdown!
It's coming on November 4!
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Speed-Running Doctor Who Master-Post (Classic Who)
First Doctor
Second Doctor
Third Doctor
Fourth Doctor
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Apparently this is a fairly old video at this point so I’m late to the party, but I needed to share this with the Classic Who fandom immediately because it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
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The witches take the concept a step further and appear in sound rather than form. They are sinister in their absence, invisibly roaming in the vapour and smoke around the stage, present as a sibilant chorus of whispering voices played by the entire cast – an ingenious way to suggest that they represent the ever-present murderous voice in Macbeth’s head. They moan, giggle and flap crow-like in our ears, bringing an uncomfortable intimacy.The witches take the concept a step further and appear in sound rather than form. They are sinister in their absence, invisibly roaming in the vapour and smoke around the stage, present as a sibilant chorus of whispering voices played by the entire cast – an ingenious way to suggest that they represent the ever-present murderous voice in Macbeth’s head. They moan, giggle and flap crow-like in our ears, bringing an uncomfortable intimacy....
...The horror and tragedy hit all the marks too, from the killing of Lady Macduff (Rona Morison) and children, taking place in pitch darkness and capturing every sound of their last gasps
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Theatre Review - Macbeth, Donmar Warehouse (2023) - David Tennant is back where he belongs - on a Shakespearean stage!
Theatre Review - Macbeth, Donmar Warehouse (2023) starring David Tennant & Cush Jumbo!
(Photography: Charlie Gray Studio / Artwork: AKA UK)
It’s always a great year for me when it’s announced that David Tennant is returning to the theatre and especially to Shakespeare and last night I was lucky enough to have a front row seat to the final preview of the new Donmar production of Macbeth.
In recent years, there’s been more of a tendency to find a new way to tell some of these…
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