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dailybridgerton · 1 year

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Stepping into the title role of Queen Charlotte — originated by the inimitable Golda Rosheuvel — would be a massive challenge for any actor. But India Amarteifio (Doctor Who, Sex Education), who plays the young queen in the new Bridgerton prequel spinoff, was a perfect fit for the role. “India Amarteifio is just brilliant,” says series director Tom Verica. “She provides the canvas for someone who’s going to learn the rules and the ways of this world very quickly and use that to her advantage.”

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story turns the clock back to the iconic queen’s early years in London, beginning with her arranged marriage to King George (Corey Mylchreest). “What’s really exciting about this show is finding how to bridge the character that we know, the boldness of who she is, with how young Charlotte learns to breathe and grow into the power that she now possesses,” says Verica. “I had big shoes to fill,” adds Amarteifio, “Not only as young Charlotte, because Golda has created an iconic role, but just entering the [series’] sphere itself.”

Like the new actor entering the exciting world of Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story finds the young Charlotte making her entrée into an unfamiliar London society and finding mentors and lifelong friends in the young, and newly titled, Lady Agatha Danbury (Arsema Thomas) and a young Brimsley (Sam Clemmett), always following five footsteps behind. “He is more than her right hand, he is her stability, her guidance,” says Amarteifio of the queen’s relationship with her ever-present servant. “Brimsley is the only person in Charlotte’s life who is stable, gives her a voice of reason, and is someone to come home to, really.”

While charting their pasts, the new series also continues Bridgerton characters’ Regency-era stories with Golda Rosheuvel’s Queen Charlotte trying to figure out how to marry off just one of her many children to produce a legitimate heir, with the support of Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) and Lady Violet Bridgerton (Ruth Gemmell). “Thinking about dynasty and hierarchy and the next generation takes us into thinking about how these relationships were formed, how they last, the ups and downs of these relationships,” explains Andoh.

As Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story producer Betsy Beers puts it, the new series is, “absolutely classic Shonda Rhimes because it is this beautifully precise and very unique combination of humor, pain, conflict, elegance, excitement — all in the face of events that seem to be unmanageable and insurmountable.” And Rosheuvel issues a challenge to Bridgerton fans, “The universe just kind of cycles and swirls within itself, so it would be really interesting to see whether the fans notice little nuances and Easter eggs that we’ve put in both productions.”

#bridgertonedit #bridgerton #queen charlotte #queen charlotte: a bridgerton story #qcabsedit #qcabs s1 #images #news #liz

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justzawe · 2 years

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Join two Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, two icons of stage and screen, Zawe Ashton and Adjoa Andoh for this conversation exclusively for RSL Members and Digital Events Pass holders.

Zawe Ashton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021. In 2022, Adjoa Andoh became an Honorary Fellow. In this online, pre-recorded event, they will discuss the importance of literature in their lives. They will consider the words in their worlds, from books, to scripts, to adaptations between the two.

#zawe ashton #adjoa andoh #royal society of literature #literature matters rsl 200

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destiniesfm · 2 months

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{adjoa andoh, 59, cis woman, she/her} We are so glad to see you safe, [THE ROYAL ADVISOR] [CLEOTHA SOLOMAN] of [ETHIOPIA]! It’s dangerous out in the world these days, but I hear that you are [INGENIOUS] and [CREATIVE] enough to handle it. Just don’t let your [SHARP-TONGUED NATURE] bring you down! Stay on your guard, because with your secret being at risk for exposure, you wouldn’t want everyone to find out [ YOU MURDERED YOUR BEST FRIEND'S HUSBAND ].

Cleotha:

She's a very far-sighted advisor and can see the benefits of maintaining amicable diplomatic relations with powerful empires such as the mughal one but she is also a very blunt person XD

Her personality is greatly inspired by lady danbury in the bridgerton novels, a bit of catherine de'medici and a lot of olenna tyrell from GOT.

She's very sharp-tongued, blunt with dry humour, absolutely unafraid to speak her mind though she knows how to sometimes employ tact on very delicate matters, very shrewd, cunning and always ingenious in her ideas and solutions to problems. Can be a dangerous woman to cross as she has a lot of resources and connections at her disposal and she can be vicious to those who have wronged her loved ones. ( cue the time she unalived her bestie's husband bcos he was abusing her ).

She also has a love for fashion and is iconic for creating her own trendsetting outfits.

She is also the aunt to the current king of ethiopia as she was his father's younger sister and thus currently still retains the title of princess and the honorific of "your highness".

However some who has known her when she was married to a duke in England and is now dowager duchess ( her son is the current duke and a wc! ) may refer to her as "your grace".

She very dearly loves all of her family members and is a very present figure in their lives though she does hand out tough love sometimes, especially more so now that they are all adults who should be wiser figures XD

#muse: the astute #theopulent.intro

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lesbiancassius · 2 years

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Hamlet @ the Stratford Festival

I had the chance to catch Hamlet at Stratford this year, and oh my God, Amaka Umeh is a force of fucking nature and probably the best Hamlet i’ll ever see in my life. It was overall a very good production despite some Stratford Festival-itis and directed by a man disease, mostly because Amaka Umeh...was on stage.

oh no, tumblr user lesbianedmund! you cry. i don’t live in canada and/or i don’t have the money to see it!!. fear not. i took copious notes. also it’ll probably be online w/ stratfest @ home, so eventually it may be dispersed to the masses. and you can watch Amaka Umeh do to be or not to be in 2020. it’s amazing. all the details are beneath the cut and there are many.

first off. Amaka Umeh (she/they/he) is the most amazing Hamlet I have ever seen. They are the definitive Hamlet. Why are we still making Hamlets when their Hamlet exists. She delivered monologues in ways I never thought of. She was so alive as Hamlet it was insane. For real I think they’re the best actor I’ve ever seen. Adjoa Andoh type of compelling. I don’t think I can really exaggerate how fantastic he is.

before you ask: no Fortinbras. Gertrude could not see the ghost. Gertrude knew the wine was poisoned. Hamlet’s madness was not really fake. Ophelia did not hear to be or not to be.

overarching thoughts: so much Stratford Festival syndrome acting in this. ie boring as fuck acting. like they’re saying words. they’re even saying the words really well. but jesus christ it’s so boring. it feels so dead and i can’t put my finger on why. hate it

Hamlet was beyond amazing. Horatio was good, Laertes was good, loved the players scene (SOOOO amateur theatre it was perfect down to the ukulele), r&g were good, Polonius i warmed up to, Claudius, Gertrude*, and Ophelia were just so boring, ghost was too standard ghost-y & i hated that. also, I think it didn’t do its women very well

* I saw a Gertrude understudy, and not Maev Beaty, so my Gertrude thoughts might be different than someone who saw the main cast Gertrude

there was really annoying underscoring at some parts, especially the ending. fuck underscoring in theatre i didn’t come to see a movie i came to see a PLAY

before the play started there was a glass rectangular coffin on stage with the dead Hamlet Sr in it. the set had two levels and it’s a thrust kind of stage. on the top level there was two-way glass making a little box kind of deal which could be mirrors or another part of the stage very cool

the second scene opened with the coffin of Hamlet’s father being covered with a tablecloth and Hamlet was standing at the end of it (back to centre audience) and was very upset

everyone gathered around to clink their glasses but Hamlet just leant back in his chair and drank the whole glass. Laertes was wearing a shirt with butterflies on it under his suit? fashion icon

just the way ‘a little more than kin and less than kind’ was delivered was my first clue that this was going to be something absurdly fantastic. Hamlet did the whole thing very obviously grief-stricken. half his lines sounded like he was about to burst into tears and it was just. so. good.

the ‘o’ in o that this too too sullied flesh was so raw. that’s how you do the shakespeare guttural ‘o’ sound. yeah. also the o god! god! was delivered almost like protesting the fixing canon gainst self slaughter part. so good.

Laertes and Hamlet had a secret handshake which was hilarious

Ophelia and Hamlet made out with ophelia sitting on the coffin table which is. something i mean we know that hamlet thinks that’s his dad’s coffin so.

when Hamlet says ‘methinks i see my father’ to horatio, he whips the tablecloth off the table and

IT’S JUST A NORMAL TABLE. NO DEAD FATHER. IT DID NOT MOVE. GOD I LOVE THEATRE AND PRACTICAL EFFECTS.

and then the ‘in my mind’s eye’ was very rushed and Hamlet was clearly stunned by the fact that it wasn’t the coffin.

the ghost was really boring however the super low fog rolling across the steps of the stage looked fantastic. also the ghost of Hamlet Sr. saw Gertrude and Claudius like. making out in the two way glass cube

the Polonius and Reynaldo scene was actually kind of funny! however I think Polonius losing his train of thought should maybe have been sprinkled a little more through the play because my aunt thought the actor just corpsed lmao

Hamlet’s letters were all texts

to overhear Hamlet, Polonius called Claudius and put his phone in his pocket and Claudius and Gertrude went out in the hall. Polonius stood under the top layer of the stage, and then

enter Hamlet above doing to be or not to be. they moved it! wild.

i reallllllly wish they did more with this. like how worried is Gertrude now? give me more. but super interesting in concept? however ‘Hamlet is a suicide text, it’s time to teach it like one’ has given me strong opinions about ophelia having to be there for the monologue

and then Hamlet went into his fake madness and messed around with Polonius. all of Polonius’ asides were done to the phone in his pocket.

Rosencrantz hit his juul like 8 times during this scene. also r&g and Hamlet had a secret handshake too.

the players were fun. the one guy started doing all the world’s a stage before hamlet got him doing the right monologue

they put this weird little like mic pack on Ophelia’s thigh and then she had a little thing around her neck or ear? so they could listen in?

going to be honest i don’t know why they did this. did you just want ophelia to untie her wrap dress. this is what i mean about directed by a man disease

Hamlet was just so confused about everything and then lashed out it was. ow. dude i don’t think this is a joke anymore ahahah

also when Hamlet said as a crab move backwards he took a selfie with Polonius. that whole bit was so fuckign funny

Horatio filmed Claudius on a phone during the mousetrap

Polonius pretended to be stabbed when he was reenacting being Julius Caesar it was funny he did et tu brute and Hamlet pretended to cut his throat

also the band played that ushering in music they play outside of the theatre (bc stratfest is like that) before the play for the mousetrap except now they have Danish flags on their instruments instead of stratfest ones

the play opened with four of the players on stage one of them playing the ukulele and singing a goofy song it was SO amateur theatre

when Claudius shouted for the lights to come up the house lights came up and it was intermission

Claudius’ ‘my offence is rank’ monologue was done TO Polonius!! he confessed to Polonius! and Hamlet didn’t hear it at all.Cclaudius was clearly kind of torn up about what he did and feeling guilt but he was still boring. lol

Polonius was shot through a curtain and Lo And Behold he was shot in the place where Hamlet pretended to stab him while he was pretending to be caesar

Gertrude also could not see the ghost and hamlet was so distraught

Hamlet was almost apprehended by some guards while he was walking around waving a gun after killing Polonius and he set it on the ground then went BLEH!!! and ran off

in the two way glass box we saw Ophelia discover the dead body of Polonius and she screamed but instead of noise it was like this cool discordant trumpet sound?

Ophelia was so boring. like it was just not. also she was wearing a medical gown and…an ankle monitor?

when Laertes came back he was wearing a puffer jacket and a black bucket hat.

i think he and fanny pack Tybalt from the 2021 r+j would be friends

the first gravedigger had his worksuit unzipped and he had a skull tattoo also the other gravedigger was actually the priest. he was smoking

at the ‘a tanner will last you nine year’ Hamlet and the gravedigger (who are both dark-skinned and playing on the word tanner as in darker not like profession) fist-bumped

alas poor Yorick was delivered kind of sadly at the start? was very very very good

when Hamlet realized the funeral was Ophelia’s he just hugged Horatio for a very long time :((

you know Amaka Umeh is a great actor bc they managed to deliver ‘would eat a crocodile’? as frightening. not a SINGLE PERSON laughed in the whole ass festival theatre.

when the duel was proposed to Hamlet, Horatio kept gesturing ‘no’ and shaking his head

at some point hamlet kissed Horatio on the cheek but i don’t remember where

Laertes accepted Hamlet’s apology and they did their handshake again

also, at the start Hamlet was in all black and now he’s in all white: Laertes was in red, then white and black, and now all black.

Gertrude realized the drink was poisoned and stopped hamlet from drinking, and the i will my lord was super interesting.

also Claudius kind of willingly drank the poison

the final monologues from Hamlet are something i WISH i could just revisit again and again they were so well done. so complex. not just one note i’m dying but fear and wonder and amazement and collapsing and oh god it was AMAZING. Horatio held Hamlet and the final ‘the rest is silence. O!’ was done almost with euphoria? like it was just so beautiful and interesting

it ended with ‘flights of angels’, lights went down for a moment then picked back up in a strobe thing and we saw the shadow of king hamlet and Horatio goes “who’s there?”

what the fuck. what the fuckkkkkk. cyclical nature of tragedy *starts bawling*

it was so good i forgot they cut fortinbras

#hamlet #stratford festival #it was so good but only bc of amaka umeh. stratford festival you should #hire actors who aren't 45 more often #june.txt

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shakespearenews · 2 months

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“In Richard II, I wanted to address who owns the narrative of the creation of England. … Hence we told Shakespeare's iconic love letter to England through the mouths and traditions of the colonized nations who were obliged to contribute to its flourishing,” she said.

“For me, the broad theatricality of Shakespeare for the people was my friend.”

Her talk, “An Evening with Adjoa Andoh,” was the keynote event for “Rising: A RaceB4Race Symposium,” sponsored by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at ASU and Shakespeare Centre London.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #adjoa andoh #richard ii #theater #theatre

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thewuzzy · 2 years

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So what is Lenora Crichlow doing now because I can't find any updates on her projects? Someone mentioned that she comes from an acting family and usually it means that her parents were actors but that's not true. Her father was an activist and little is known about her mother. The fact remains that Lenora did get lead roles in the UK and when she came to the US, she only acted in supporting roles. The pecking order in Hollywood is clear and your comments about Lily James are true.

Honestly? I don't know, because now I have to check her IMDB to know what she's doing whereas 10 years ago she was always on telly. Yes the stuff she's still doing isn't insignficant (Avenue 5) but it's not leading lady any more

It's so bizarre watching random white British actors get free rides to the Hollywood Top 100 based on looks or rich people networking when British POC actors on the same or even higher career rungs never get handed those opportunities and are allowed to peak after single breakout hit. Obviously there are exceptions, but people still cite Parminder Nagra as the infamous example case 20 years later for a freaking reason. If it hadn't been for Star Wars cementing him on the international map forever, I worry that the same would have happened to John Boyega and 10 years on we'd all have been going 'Ah, you remember that kid from Attack the Block... he was so talented...'

For me Lenora's case particularly stings because she's one of the actresses I admired most as a tween (along with Yasmin Paige) and during that late 00s early 10s period she was a mainstay. So it was so frustrating watching her career die down while various less famous co-stars with much shorter resumes leap frogged right over her. No shade to Aiden Turner he's fantastic. Lily James all shade absolutely deserved lmao (although in her defence I do think she has improved over the years.)

Thanks for tipping me in to Frank Crichlow's activist career, the fact that he's one of the Mangrove 9 is actually fucking sick! Such an iconic period in British history!! I've had Mangrove on my TBW list since it came out so I will definitely prioritise that now.

I hope @griffin-groupie is right about Lenora being extremely picky with her roles but honestly it's very clear that she's not been on the big-leagues radar for about a decade now, and I doubt she has oodles of choice given that her projects aren't very frequent. I know celebrity status is not what every actor wants, but I'm still rooting for her to have a later career stage glow-up to USA celeb status like David Harewood or Adjoa Andoh. She deserves it!

Thanks for the ask nonny! <3

#caveat i'm white and this is all my anecdotal personal opinions based on getting angry about TV since 2005 not any industry knowledge #lenora crichlow #ask mads #british tv #black british #don't even get me started on the freema agyeman karen gillan nexus because that is a WHOLE other post

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