Can't help you on the Two Magicians; all I've got is the Carthy-Swarbrick and Steeleye Span versions.
Same, plus the Young Tradition. But they've all got the ending I'd rather not listen to right now. (See reply to moon_custafer, above.)
Maybe that's traditional for this play? I don't know, I've never seen it before, only read bits of it?
I've only seen Henry IV similarly amalgamated as part of the Actors' Shakespeare Project's The Coveted Crown, where they were visual foils—Hal dark, Hotspur bright. They didn't continue with Henry V, either!
I knew as soon as I saw the cast list that Melissa's take on Falstaff would be heartbreaking.
I'd never seen her before; derspatchel said she acted with Theatre@First before I knew of the company. She was excellent.
And that was before I knew Shelley would choose to end the play on that line instead of finishing the scene as written.
Yes; I liked that. It needed another beat before the lights went so abruptly down (unless the sudden stop was the point; I was expecting another scene change, not the very clever credits music), but it was a harsh, unnerving ending. I liked Poins standing back with his arms crossed, forewarned how this scene is going to end; Peto tugging Bardolph offstage, twigging faster than Falstaff that the game—that is all it ever was—is over. I am not sure that I liked Hal's renunciation being so outwardly angry: I felt there could have been some less declamatory way of showing us how much it cost him to break with Falstaff and Eastcheap. But it worked very well. It's over faster than anyone is ready for.
(I want to see T@F do Henry V too. I imprinted hard on the Branagh film version, being fifteen years old when it came out, but I never get tired of seeing new productions of it.)
I've seen Branagh's and Olivier's; I didn't imprint on either, though if I combine them and squint I feel like I'm getting a decent rounded view of the play. How does the BBC's Hollow Crown do with it?
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Same, plus the Young Tradition. But they've all got the ending I'd rather not listen to right now. (See reply to
Maybe that's traditional for this play? I don't know, I've never seen it before, only read bits of it?
I've only seen Henry IV similarly amalgamated as part of the Actors' Shakespeare Project's The Coveted Crown, where they were visual foils—Hal dark, Hotspur bright. They didn't continue with Henry V, either!
I knew as soon as I saw the cast list that Melissa's take on Falstaff would be heartbreaking.
I'd never seen her before;
And that was before I knew Shelley would choose to end the play on that line instead of finishing the scene as written.
Yes; I liked that. It needed another beat before the lights went so abruptly down (unless the sudden stop was the point; I was expecting another scene change, not the very clever credits music), but it was a harsh, unnerving ending. I liked Poins standing back with his arms crossed, forewarned how this scene is going to end; Peto tugging Bardolph offstage, twigging faster than Falstaff that the game—that is all it ever was—is over. I am not sure that I liked Hal's renunciation being so outwardly angry: I felt there could have been some less declamatory way of showing us how much it cost him to break with Falstaff and Eastcheap. But it worked very well. It's over faster than anyone is ready for.
(I want to see T@F do Henry V too. I imprinted hard on the Branagh film version, being fifteen years old when it came out, but I never get tired of seeing new productions of it.)
I've seen Branagh's and Olivier's; I didn't imprint on either, though if I combine them and squint I feel like I'm getting a decent rounded view of the play. How does the BBC's Hollow Crown do with it?