5 Nov - Rufus in Trevor Nunn tribute

[GreenEyesToo]

"Actors Sinead Cusack and Rufus Sewell, playwright Richard Nelson, and director David Jones will participate in An Evening with Trevor Nunn, presented by The Shakespeare Society at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College on Monday, November 5th.
The 90-minute retrospective and tribute to the famed director will include an onstage conversation with longtime friend and fellow stage and film director Jones, focusing on Nunn's extraordinary Shakespearean career at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theater and elsewhere.

Cusack and Sewell -- both of whom are featured in Nunn's production of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, currently playing Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre -- will read selections from Shakespeare's work."

www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/11927

[maxx02]

! I hope someone will be able to attend this... uke.

[etherealtb]

maxx02 said:

! I hope someone will be able to attend this... uke.

You'd better go, Uke! I sure would if I were anywhere in the Tri-State area.

[quoll]

An opportunity not to be missed I should say!

[ukelelehip]

I'll try to score a ticket!

ETA: Got one!

[uncorked]

Uke --you are the luckiest person ever !!!!!!

[rufluvr]

She shoots, she SCORES!! That'll be a very entertaining event I'm sure Uke. Trevor Nunn's resume is impressive. Love Les Miserable. Not as much as ex-hubby though. I'd have to REALLY like a play to want to see it every time it's in town.
Of course if I lived in NY it would be fun to try to see R & R over and over and...

[etherealtb]

admin said:

I'll try to score a ticket!

ETA: Got one!

Atta girl!

[ukelelehip]

I recorded Rufus' reading of a speech from Hamlet. It is Hamlet's advice to the Players. Afterwards Trevor called out to him (in jest naturally!) "see, this is what I've been trying to say these past 4 weeks".

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HAMLET: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,
trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your
players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do
not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all
gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,
whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a
temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the
soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to
tatters, to very rags, to split the cars of the groundlings, who,
for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb
shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing
Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you avoid it...
...Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your
tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with
this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of
nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,
whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as
'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own image,
scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his
form and pressure.

[maxx02]

admin said:

I recorded Rufus' reading of a speech from Hamlet. It is Hamlet's advice to the Players. Afterwards Trevor called out to him (in jest naturally!) "see, this is what I've been trying to say these past 4 weeks".

lol! so tell us about it. Was this all Rufus read? What did Sinead do? Was everyone there from the cast?

thank you, by the way. This is really special. I wonder if it might possibly signify a broader interest...

[rai]

Brilliant job, Uke! thanks so much

Rai

[ukelelehip]

maxx02 said:

lol! so tell us about it. Was this all Rufus read? What did Sinead do? Was everyone there from the cast?

thank you, by the way. This is really special. I wonder if it might possibly signify a broader interest...

My pleasure! It was lovely, Trevor is a great story teller, at one point he was describing directing Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in Macbeth and it was as though we were watching the play itself. I bet Trevor makes an excellent actor.

I missed the first half hour as I couldn't get out of work on time. This is the only thing I heard Rufus read, I may have missed something in the beginning. I only saw him and Sinead from the RnR cast. Sinead read a portion of Act II, scene I from Much Ado About Nothing with Roger Rees. Very cool! Obviously it was very Shakespeare oriented because it was the Shakespeare Society honoring him. Afterwards they gave him a medal and they had an inscription done from As You Like It which was very cute:

"O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful! and after that, out of all whooping!"

[GreenEyesToo]

Lovely! Thanks, Uke.

[quoll]

Thanks Uke! Sounds like it was a super event!