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The Play's the Thing
Fans of Sir Derek Jacobi
14 March 2012 @ 03:09 pm
14 February 2012 @ 06:43 pm
06 November 2011 @ 10:57 am
From here.
The winners for this year's Theatre Awards UK 2011, formerly the TMA Theatre Awards which since 1991 have recognized work seen in regional UK theatres, include Sir Derek Jacobi Michael Sheen and the RSC's Matilda - the musical, with Sir Peter Hall receiving a specail award for outstanding contribution to British theatre.
The winners were announced in a lunchtime ceremony held Oct. 30 at London's Banqueting House in Whitehall, with touring productions at the forefront of those also honored. Edward Hall's Propeller Shakespeare company productions of Richard III and The Comedy of Errors were named Best Touring Production, and Shakespeare's Globe's touring seasons won the Rennee Stepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre. Mike Bartlett's Love, Love, Love, presented on tour by Paines Plough in a co-production with Theatre Royal, Plymouth, was named Best New Play.
... Derek Jacobi was named Best Actor for his performance in the title role of the Donmar Warehouse's King Lear, which underwent an extensive UK national tour.
The winners for this year's Theatre Awards UK 2011, formerly the TMA Theatre Awards which since 1991 have recognized work seen in regional UK theatres, include Sir Derek Jacobi Michael Sheen and the RSC's Matilda - the musical, with Sir Peter Hall receiving a specail award for outstanding contribution to British theatre.
The winners were announced in a lunchtime ceremony held Oct. 30 at London's Banqueting House in Whitehall, with touring productions at the forefront of those also honored. Edward Hall's Propeller Shakespeare company productions of Richard III and The Comedy of Errors were named Best Touring Production, and Shakespeare's Globe's touring seasons won the Rennee Stepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre. Mike Bartlett's Love, Love, Love, presented on tour by Paines Plough in a co-production with Theatre Royal, Plymouth, was named Best New Play.
... Derek Jacobi was named Best Actor for his performance in the title role of the Donmar Warehouse's King Lear, which underwent an extensive UK national tour.
26 October 2011 @ 06:14 pm
26 May 2011 @ 07:54 am
Full interview is here.
How do you begin your preparation for a new role?
If you're playing a real person the research is very important because you're playing someone that presumably most people know and you have to replicate that. As far as fictional characters are concerned, I think my first instinct is to acquaint myself thoroughly with the text. Not how to say it or why, but parrot fashion, so the rehearsal times aren't taken up with book in hand, 'Ooh sorry, where am I? I've lost my place'. The rehearsal process is about learning where it comes from, what it means, what your attitude to it is, what you take from the other actors. But the basic script is there like a tape recording, it has no intonation, it has no interpretation, just text, and through that comes the search for the character.
Why Lear?
If you have any aspirations to be a classical actor there are two hoops you have to go through: when you are young you have to go through the Hamlet hoop and be judged on the quality of your Hamlet. When you are an old actor you are judged on the quality of your Lear.
How do you begin your preparation for a new role?
If you're playing a real person the research is very important because you're playing someone that presumably most people know and you have to replicate that. As far as fictional characters are concerned, I think my first instinct is to acquaint myself thoroughly with the text. Not how to say it or why, but parrot fashion, so the rehearsal times aren't taken up with book in hand, 'Ooh sorry, where am I? I've lost my place'. The rehearsal process is about learning where it comes from, what it means, what your attitude to it is, what you take from the other actors. But the basic script is there like a tape recording, it has no intonation, it has no interpretation, just text, and through that comes the search for the character.
Why Lear?
If you have any aspirations to be a classical actor there are two hoops you have to go through: when you are young you have to go through the Hamlet hoop and be judged on the quality of your Hamlet. When you are an old actor you are judged on the quality of your Lear.
07 April 2011 @ 06:11 pm
05 April 2011 @ 08:04 am
Here's a heads up...
"High hopes were had for Showtime's 15th century Spanish family potboiler, "The Borgias," after their success of "The Tudors."
I was salivating for a period drama dripping with intrigue, sex and lots of Roman Catholic papal name dropping. It took until episode three for me to care about this lavishly attended production that wallows and wanes a bit and wastes one of the finest actors around, Derek Jacobi, a scheming Cardinal who's life is ended early on.
Jacobi's run is ended by an early death in episode 2, just like that of riveting actor James Purefoy, cast as King Lot in Starz "Camelot," which airs tonight. "The Borgias" writers 86ed someone worth watching for at least a few more episodes..."
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"High hopes were had for Showtime's 15th century Spanish family potboiler, "The Borgias," after their success of "The Tudors."
I was salivating for a period drama dripping with intrigue, sex and lots of Roman Catholic papal name dropping. It took until episode three for me to care about this lavishly attended production that wallows and wanes a bit and wastes one of the finest actors around, Derek Jacobi, a scheming Cardinal who's life is ended early on.
Jacobi's run is ended by an early death in episode 2, just like that of riveting actor James Purefoy, cast as King Lot in Starz "Camelot," which airs tonight. "The Borgias" writers 86ed someone worth watching for at least a few more episodes..."
Source
05 February 2011 @ 06:45 pm
This Thursday I had the pleasure of watching the Donmar Theater's live broadcast of King Lear starring Sir Derek Jacobi.
Here is the link for my review of the broadcast.
Here is the link for my review of the broadcast.
25 January 2011 @ 10:27 pm
King Lear, starring Sir Derek Jacobi, will be on stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater (651 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY) from Apr 28—Jun 5, 2011: Tue—Sat at 7:30pm; Sat at 2pm (Apr 30 and Jun 4 only); Sun at 3pm.
For more information and tickets, please go here.
In the UK, King Lear will embark on an eight-week tour to Venue Cymru, Llandudno (Feb. 21-26), Belfast Opera House (Feb. 28-March 5), Glasgow Theatre Royal (March 7-12), Milton Keynes Theatre (March 14-19), The Lowry, Salford (March 21-26), Richmond Theatre (March 28-April 2), Bath Theatre Royal (April 4-9) and Hall for Cornwall (April 11-16).
To find a cinema near you showing the live simulcast, go here.
For more information and tickets, please go here.
In the UK, King Lear will embark on an eight-week tour to Venue Cymru, Llandudno (Feb. 21-26), Belfast Opera House (Feb. 28-March 5), Glasgow Theatre Royal (March 7-12), Milton Keynes Theatre (March 14-19), The Lowry, Salford (March 21-26), Richmond Theatre (March 28-April 2), Bath Theatre Royal (April 4-9) and Hall for Cornwall (April 11-16).
To find a cinema near you showing the live simulcast, go here.
24 January 2011 @ 09:14 pm
From here.
One of the most keenly awaited Shakespearean performances of recent times – Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear – is to be broadcast live in more than 300 cinemas across the world.
The Donmar Warehouse in London will announce today that it is to follow the National Theatre's example and will be filming King Lear during a performance next February.
It is one way of tackling a repeated criticism of the Donmar, with its tiny audience capacity of 250: that it puts on amazing theatre which too few people get to see. Michael Grandage, the Donmar's artistic director who will also direct Jacobi, said he was "regularly made very aware" of how small the audience space was and the theatre had worked very hard at broadening access, from always making seats available on the night to the one year residency in London's West End last year which included Jude Law as Hamlet. ...
The nuts and bolts details of how the broadcast will work have still to be sorted out, but Grandage is confident that Lear, with something like 22 performers, will not be marred by walking into cameras. The Donmar stage was, he said, bigger than people think. King Lear will also have a far bigger touring programme than previous Donmar productions and will visit Llandudno, Belfast, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Salford, Richmond, Bath and Cornwall.
Those nuts and bolts will be handled by the National Theatre, which is to organise the broadcast and run the technical side as part of the second season of National Theatre Live.
One of the most keenly awaited Shakespearean performances of recent times – Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear – is to be broadcast live in more than 300 cinemas across the world.
The Donmar Warehouse in London will announce today that it is to follow the National Theatre's example and will be filming King Lear during a performance next February.
It is one way of tackling a repeated criticism of the Donmar, with its tiny audience capacity of 250: that it puts on amazing theatre which too few people get to see. Michael Grandage, the Donmar's artistic director who will also direct Jacobi, said he was "regularly made very aware" of how small the audience space was and the theatre had worked very hard at broadening access, from always making seats available on the night to the one year residency in London's West End last year which included Jude Law as Hamlet. ...
The nuts and bolts details of how the broadcast will work have still to be sorted out, but Grandage is confident that Lear, with something like 22 performers, will not be marred by walking into cameras. The Donmar stage was, he said, bigger than people think. King Lear will also have a far bigger touring programme than previous Donmar productions and will visit Llandudno, Belfast, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Salford, Richmond, Bath and Cornwall.
Those nuts and bolts will be handled by the National Theatre, which is to organise the broadcast and run the technical side as part of the second season of National Theatre Live.
