Friday, September 13, 2013

Staging Shakespeare: The Case of Timon

1) From the Guardian review of the Hytner/Beale production (by the National Theatre):

"One famous unleashing of abuse has been specially garlanded by Hytner so that it's silver platters of steaming turds, not water that Timon delivers as a vengeful banquet for his faithless acolytes. Russell Beale makes the scene shocking in its misanthropic rage, but steeps it beautifully in choking emotion too."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/9408166/Timon-of-Athens-Olivier-Theatre-at-the-National-review.html 

2) From Wyndham Lewis's unpublished edition of Timon, in the style of Vorticism 

(So says Wikipedia: Vorticism was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century. Though the style grew out of Cubism it is more closely related to Futurism in its embrace of dynamism, the machine age and all things modern.)



 See other images from this planned edition in this piece from Erin Blake on Sarah Werner's excellent blog, The Collation:

http://collation.folger.edu/2013/05/proof-prints-part-one/

3. The Medieval / Morality Play Inheritance:




Contemplation, Perseverance, Imagination, and Free Will. 

From the morality play Hickscorner, in H.W. Mabie, William Shakespeare (1900). 


Lego version of Everyman, the morality play


The Last Supper, Juan de Juanes c. 1560 

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