CM wrote:philipchevron wrote:[ .......I may even need to see it yet again from start to finish. I understand the RSC are to give us the "previous" cycle -
Richard II, Henry IV (1), Henry IV (2) and
Henry V next season. It would be great if they did all 8 plays in sequence at some point.
I hear they will! Summer 2008 all 8 plays playing in rep and f I had a '08 diary it'd be in there already ... particularly for
Revenge of the Runt again

Great news!
Sam Troughton, who was in the original 2000 Henry 6/Richard 3 cycle, is at the Crucible in Sheffield as Orlando in Sam West's production of
As You Like It. He's OK, if a bit shouty at times. Eve Best, in her final British job before she steps out on Broadway in
A Moon For The Misbegotten, is as excellent a Rosalind as you might expect.
Looks like the
In Extremis dates are not going to work for me, though I'm seeing
Othello, and the Barbican's
Cymbeline and
Coriolanus as well as the rest of the RSC "Complete Works" season, the most interesting of which may be F Murray Abrahams as Shylock. I saw him do Marlowe's
The Jew Of Malta in New York last month, which he's doing in repertoire with the
Merchant Of Venice he's taking to Stratford. The Marlowe was gobsmackingly awful, but apparently the Shakespeare is in a different class. Poor Marlowe, he is very badly served by most directors and actors.