Smile, it’s Thursday!

Since tomorrow is the big move day, today I’m going to cheat.

My brain’s a little grid-locked with final moving prep.  I will attempt to provide witty commentary.  Mostly, though, here are some fun Shakespeare-related youtube clips.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWndLb3z5nY]

Words cannot express how much I love this. Muppets make everything better.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYUBnHuYm5U]

….Actually Henry VIII is considered a history, so it wouldn’t fall into either purview. Sorry, Sam.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiEaaVZTQAU]

Though Henry V IS a great show to learn about the human condition with. I think Picard is a pretty good casting director.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acFQHZ3EOoc]

I would post the entire episode if I could, but I guess this will have to do.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQ8yF04y9o&feature=youtu.be]

Another one that I could post a great deal of the episode from… really, though, how can you go wrong with Carmen?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbqq77AEN_8]

…I especially enjoy the interpretation of Puck’s last line.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDdyafsR7g]

A very very young Ian McKellen in Trevor Nunn’s 1978 RSC Macbeth which became a 1979 filmed version. Incidentally, this was staged at “The Other Place”, an RSC theatre opened in 1974. The Other Place was a converted rehearsal room and an all-around big deal for the RSC as it was their first blackbox theatre and thereby represented a HUGE shift from GINORMOUS FANCY SHMANCY RSC PRODUCTIONS to a closer-to-the-audience theatre-for-the-people style. Today, The Other Place has been transformed into a slightly more upscale (but still smaller than the barn that was the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) Courtyard Theatre.

And, to wrap things up…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOpEZM6OEvI]

Have a good weekend!  See you in Boston!