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he was amazing; one of the best Globe actors I've ever seen (he really gets the space).
(This Dream is available on DVD; it's pretty 'straight' in many ways and would be good for teaching I think?)

A photograph of a play in performance. Half length, a man and a woman are standing close, looking at each other. His left hand is on her chest and his right hand is raised as if he might hit her. Her right hand is on his left hand. She's wearing an Elizabethan style bodice with short fur sleeves, and a tiara made of twigs' he's wearing a grey coat with a rough grey fur collar.

Titania: everything is damp, damp to the very bones🌧️ #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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Titania (Michelle Terry) & Oberon (John Light) in a particularly beautiful Globe Dream in 2013, dir. Dominic Dromgoole. (Feat. brilliant Pearce Quigley as Bottom. More of that anon.)

I should think so too

it's my story and I'm sticking to it... but the yardage is astonishing and they did eventually drape the interior of Peterborough Cathedral... (was also apparently one reason why it took so long for the funeral of Anna of Denmark).

*scream* good luck...

and not impossibly delayed the funeral of Mary Queen of Scots, by exhausting supplies of black cloth...

beautiful, Andy❤️

glad to have brightened your Monday morning! (I didn't, alas, but I LOVE how it is instantly recognisable as mid 90s RSC spec. Adrian Noble.)

A photograph of a stage set. The background is dark blue, with 5 doorways leading into another blue-lit space, and the sides are mirrored. The back of the floor is lit red, and the front is blue and gold. There are golden filament bulbs hanging like stars, and an enormous upturned red umbrella hanging centre stage.

Titania: it's RAINED and RAINED!🌧️
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The beautiful set for the 1994 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Adrian Noble, des. Anthony Ward. The upside-down umbrella became Titania's bower, but seems appropriate here☔

oh that's grand...

Pistol in 2 Henry IV! Gloucester in Henry VI! Tom o'Bedlam! (Not sure; is there something by Peter Berek?) but it would be very cool...

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good luck... if it's urgent let me know and I'll see if I can send you a pdf 😎xx

I can get in? but was just now having a similar problem with drama online (saying I was logged in institutionally but not letting me get further), so maybe it's a login thing?

that would make more sense of the mis en page! I was skeptical but the dates looked right for the other!

Le diable boiteux, novel by Alain-René Le Sage?? published in 2 parts, including in Amsterdam...

yes but what about your grandmother's verdict on Wuthering Heights?

yes. all of this...

A black and white photograph of a play in performance. A woman with short spiky hair has her back to the camera; she's wearing tight laced trousers and a sort of cape with flowers appliquéd onto it, 3D; her midriff is bare. She's fighting with a man who is bare chested, wearing very skimpy shorts and a necklace, with a headband and long dark curly hair. He has his right hand on her shoulder.

Titania: you LIAR! #MoonMad
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Titania's 'ringlets' are circle dances but one might be forgiven for thinking otherwise, looking at this pic from @the-rsc.bsky.social 1977 Dream. Titania (Marjorie Bland) & Oberon (Patrick Stewart) dir John Barton des John Napier.

v v good indeed

Text of poem reads: & Forgive us our trespasses. Of which the first is love. The sad, unrepeatable fact that the loves we shouldn’t foster burrow faster and linger longer than sanctioned kinds can. Loves that thrive on absence, on lack of return, or worse, on harm, are unkillable, Father. They do not die in us. And you know how we’ve tried. Loves nursed, inexplicably, on thoughts of sex, a return to touched places, a backwards glance, a sigh— they come back like the ride. They are with us at the terminus when cancer catches us. They have never been away. Forgive us the people we love—their dragnet influence. Those disallowed to us, those who frighten us, those who stay on uninvited in our loves and every night revisit us. Accept from us the inappropriate by which our dreams and daily scenes stay separate.

Easy to laugh at Helena and the rest in Midsummer Night's Dream #MoonMad. But - on this day - here's Sinéad Morrissey's & Forgive us our trespasses (from Parallax, Carcanet, 2013), which I've long loved. (Partly prompted by finishing Sarah Perry's beautiful Enlightenment, SO good on the unrequited.)

A black and white photograph of a play in performance. In the centre, a man and a woman wearing fantastical Elizabethan costume, with bare feet, are having a confrontation. Similarly dressed people, including some children, are watching. Behind them are two staircases going up to a gallery above a curtained archway; there are plants, and rushes on the floor.

A colour photo of the set in the previous image. Two sets of steps going up to a gallery; there are fantastical green trees on the gallery, lit from behind and above. It looks mysterious and magical.

Titania: you cheated! Oberon: YOU cheated! Happy Valentine's 🙄#MoonMad
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I *think* this is Oberon (Robert Hardy) & Titania (Mary Ure) in the 1959 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Peter Hall; a colour image of the beautiful set by Lila De Nobili (also costumes).

'beautiful and maximal object' is #goals
*starts to think about BLANKS*
*looks at current list of deadlines and commitments*

GOOD... it was a beautiful production❤️

Yes! they poked up through the boards when the action went to the forest

and a reminder that it's night, for the first time in the play I think!

A photograph of a play in performance. On a white painted stage, with a curving background of white vertical planks, lit blue, a couple are facing off. He's wearing ga long black coat with a silver lining; he's very pale and a floral design is painted in black on his shaved head and bare right foot. She's wearing a long sleeveless blue silk dress with a train and a fuchsia lining, slit to the thigh, with bare feet. They both look fierce.

Oberon: COW! Titania: BASTARD! CHEATING BASTARD! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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Oberon (Nicholas Jones) and Titania (Josette Simon) meet - clash - in the 1999 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Michael Boyd des. Tom Piper

have professional interest in (un)embroidered energy???

A black and white cat with a pink collar sitting on piles of papers.

this was Elma when I was doing the R&J intro...

I think you'll find that's a consultancy service rather than mere assistance?