Feb 06 2012
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![Big, big Shakespeare
John Lahr of The New Yorker calls Richard III “the last and best of the director Sam Mendes’s Bridge Project productions.” Ben Brantley of the NYT is closer to the truth: “Say what you will about [Kevin Spacey’s] performance, it is consistent in its excesses, shaped by a sustained point of view. I can’t say the same of this production.”
It was impressive — perhaps too much so. One of my fellow attendees complained that Mendes generally fails to modulate Shakespeare. This production felt very much like the movie version, albeit a well-played one.
It was not bad. It was certainly not dull. But neither was it remarkable.
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Big, big Shakespeare
John Lahr of The New Yorker calls Richard III “the last and best of the director Sam Mendes’s Bridge Project productions.” Ben Brantley of the NYT is closer to the truth: “Say what you will about [Kevin Spacey’s] performance, it is consistent in its excesses, shaped by a sustained point of view. I can’t say the same of this production.”
It was impressive — perhaps too much so. One of my fellow attendees complained that Mendes generally fails to modulate Shakespeare. This production felt very much like the movie version, albeit a well-played one.
It was not bad. It was certainly not dull. But neither was it remarkable.
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