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It’s Shakespeare’s birthday! Here’s some choice Shakespeare content, a thread featuring sounds, some of my favourite Shakespeare versions, a choice hashtag and more … 1/
@hayfestival for audio of #ToniMorrisson, @Idharker (and me at my first big festival for #WeThatAreYoung, months before the book was published. @GalleyBeggars and I were still working on the edits, all through the festival. It was magical!) https://www.hayfestival.com/hayplayer ">https://www.hayfestival.com/hayplayer...
If there& #39;s one # to follow here, it& #39;s #ShakeRace - leading international scholars on #decolonisation #earlymodern race + contemporary meaning... see also @rentravailer, @ERC_TIDE, @RenAyesha, @DrDadabhoy @KathrynVSantos @ProfFarahKC @ProfKFH @drlettycgarcia and more...
Some of my favourite & #39;versions& #39; now:
Mark Haddon& #39;s & #39;The Porpoise& #39; - his Pericles - a blazing world and a pain-filled one; a brilliant book
& #39;The Boy& #39; by Wytske Versteeg, trans. from Dutch by Sarah Welling, w/ echoes of Richard III...;
Mark Haddon& #39;s & #39;The Porpoise& #39; - his Pericles - a blazing world and a pain-filled one; a brilliant book
& #39;The Boy& #39; by Wytske Versteeg, trans. from Dutch by Sarah Welling, w/ echoes of Richard III...;
A & #39;King Lear& #39; I love is Edward Bond& #39;s play & #39;Lear& #39; - so dark, so totally true - read and then watch Kozinstev& #39;s 1971 masterpiece & #39;Korol Lear& #39; for all the damnation you could want. Script by Pasternak, score by Shostakovitch.
Another one is the brilliant play #NothingLikeLear - Rajat Kapoor, Atul Kumar, Vinay Pathak @pathakvinay bring Lear& #39;s foolery and absurdity to the front with profound impact. Catch it live wherever you can ...
Two screen #Hamlets now: Asta Nielsen in the 1920 silent film - Hamlet was born a girl! Brought up as a boy! Genius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqHtkY9jllM">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
My next #Hamlet is my favourite, Vishal Bhardwaj& #39;s #Haider - set in 1990s Kashmir. Here he is @JaipurLitFest talking about it, and his own father, who died suddenly when he was young - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR8Xg2HYd7A">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
I have mixed feelings for Kenneth Brannagh& #39;s #LovesLaboursLost starring Alicia Silverstone - but I do love this play as a feminist holiday romance; so this one sneaks in... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SmbBbmTwFY">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Tonight there& #39;s this: @ProfJSanders @UniofNewcastle explores the plays of Shakespeare & his contemporaries, looking at the parallels between Shakespearean times and #lockdown2020: https://bit.ly/3cCCini ">https://bit.ly/3cCCini&q...
These are just a few of mine... and I know got so many more, mainstream and less known - would love to know about yours (looking at you too, @eoin_price, @newaudiencesold, @DrRRJAshby @DrMirandaFay ...)
Going to end with this one though - #ToniMorisson and @rokiatraore& #39;s elegiac, beautiful & #39;Desdemona& #39;. Enjoy! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008MMBQUQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008MM...
