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Thread #79231   Message #1434302
Posted By: Cool Beans
14-Mar-05 - 08:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Seeing all of Shakespeare's plays
Subject: RE: BS: Seeing all of Shakespeare's plays
Not only have I seen all three Henry VI plays, I saw them all in one day. The Royal Shakespeare Company performed them in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as part of residency at the University of Michigan. Teh day began at 11 a.m. and ended after 11 p.m., with a lunch break and dinner break. The following night they did "Richard III." By then the actors were pretty beat; it made for a hoarse "A horse, a horse...." And the actors and audience applauded eahc other hearilty when it was all through.
I saw "Richard II" and "King John" in different years at the Stratford Festival of Canada, in Stratford, Ont. I livein suburban Detroit, between Ann Arbor (45 minutes away) and Stratford (three hours away).
And I have seen the Reduced Shakespeare Company doing "The Complete Works..." at the Criterion in London. The Globe was closed at the time but I did get to see it form the outside.
The Globe Theatre company came to Ann Arbor a year ago and I saw Rylance's "Twelfth Night" which was excellent.