*cries and cries* OMG I HAVE TO SEE ALL OF THIS AND THEY'RE NOT TAKING IT TO THE STATES AND I HAVE NO MONEY. *tears hair*
...also I totally want to hear your diss-related thoughts, sometime when you're on IM.
Everyone except Hal was wearing a replica of Henry's crown, and Douglas was literally chasing Blunt through a forest of Henries.
Okay, that is awesome. It works sort of on a Foucauldian level (signifiers of royal power everywhere) and also as a nice visual reminder of the devaluation of the crown in a post-Ricardian world (though I am also reminded of the passage about the multiplying white harts in Richard the Redeless and all the rhetoric about the king and his minions being equated with each other in Woodstock, but you know what I mean).
Apparently Falstaff, Mistress Quickly, and Doll Tearsheet ought to just go off and have a three-way-and be done with it. Which is sort of gross.
Oh, you just know they do that all the time. ;) (Chimes at Midnight, btw, which you ABSOLUTELY DO need to see, totally has a Falstaff/Doll/Hal/Poins OT4 scene.)
But it was the final tableau that was really amazing -- zombie!Richard reappeared and stood in front of Henry as a shower of sand (throwback to just after the deposition scene in Richard II) fell over both of them.
*squee*
claiming that Hal was sleeping with Poins à la Richard and minions.
I love that when Doll asks Falstaff what Hal sees in Poins, his answer is a series of "Variations on a Theme of 'He Sucks Cock.'"
Apparently since most of Hal's transformation occurs offstage, it's a lot easier to make it understandable when the plays are performed so closely together.
See? More STUFF NOT HAPPENING. *insert "INVISIBLE HISTORY" macro*
Oh, and Jonathan Slinger hitting people with leeks was possibly the most hilarious thing I've seen in a very long time.
*desperately wants to see that*
*also, is wondering about the ramifications of having Richard II's actor turn up as Fluellen (NB: in the ESC cycle, Henry IV became Macmorris, which was hilarious)*
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...also I totally want to hear your diss-related thoughts, sometime when you're on IM.
Everyone except Hal was wearing a replica of Henry's crown, and Douglas was literally chasing Blunt through a forest of Henries.
Okay, that is awesome. It works sort of on a Foucauldian level (signifiers of royal power everywhere) and also as a nice visual reminder of the devaluation of the crown in a post-Ricardian world (though I am also reminded of the passage about the multiplying white harts in Richard the Redeless and all the rhetoric about the king and his minions being equated with each other in Woodstock, but you know what I mean).
Apparently Falstaff, Mistress Quickly, and Doll Tearsheet ought to just go off and have a three-way-and be done with it. Which is sort of gross.
Oh, you just know they do that all the time. ;) (Chimes at Midnight, btw, which you ABSOLUTELY DO need to see, totally has a Falstaff/Doll/Hal/Poins OT4 scene.)
But it was the final tableau that was really amazing -- zombie!Richard reappeared and stood in front of Henry as a shower of sand (throwback to just after the deposition scene in Richard II) fell over both of them.
*squee*
claiming that Hal was sleeping with Poins à la Richard and minions.
I love that when Doll asks Falstaff what Hal sees in Poins, his answer is a series of "Variations on a Theme of 'He Sucks Cock.'"
Apparently since most of Hal's transformation occurs offstage, it's a lot easier to make it understandable when the plays are performed so closely together.
See? More STUFF NOT HAPPENING. *insert "INVISIBLE HISTORY" macro*
Oh, and Jonathan Slinger hitting people with leeks was possibly the most hilarious thing I've seen in a very long time.
*desperately wants to see that*
*also, is wondering about the ramifications of having Richard II's actor turn up as Fluellen (NB: in the ESC cycle, Henry IV became Macmorris, which was hilarious)*