Fiona Shaw talks to Ella Whelan about Shakespeare's language
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2016
- From playing Celia in As You Like It to a famously gender-bending turn as Richard II, actress and director Fiona Shaw has long breathed life into some of Shakespeare's most famous creations. But what is it like to speak those lines? How important is the rhythm of the language? And how reverent ought we to be towards it? Ella Whelan decided to find out...
Have only come to know Fiona Shaw by finally succumbing to watch Killing Eve (Aug. 2023). I thought this would be a dumb show and thus resisted watching it. But Fiona really brings the entire series alive. I am really enjoying her discussion of language and the power of reading aloud!!!!! A brilliant brilliant reason why literature must be strengthened in schools.
This was brilliant. Anyone who understands The Bard on this level is brilliant.
Great actor. We were at rada at the same time.
The empowerment of language is the extension of a person. - precis of Fiona Shaw.
SLAY FIONA! SLAY!!!! PREACH!!!!!!
"Nearer Chekov than it is allowed to be" - so Shakespeare is generous enough to be externalised and not diminished by such a process.
16:00 the deeper dialogue between Katherine and Petruccio. +JiSoo Kweon has written some brilliant poems with Katherine and Petruccio.
10:11 Richard II. "History plays became the stuff of history - they were the stuff of plays". And whether there were African courtiers was beside/beyond the point. "Not every woman can play every man". A Magical Androgyny!
"The aeration [?] of the way she speaks". Wiping the play Shakespeare has written. I think only a few authors have been able to do that. The rest of us leave residue.
for no reason whatsoever - that is, the WiFi connection had not broken off ... there was a lo-o-o-ong stoppage. How would I get around that. A wonderful interview. Thank you
THE PLAYS MUST HAPPEN NOW.
Watch them through the night ... they move. A concertinaed time of life.
The power of language ...
Genius
"Never be the same kind of woman again" ... we talk about Rosalind and radicalism.
13:11 a big tick! Design and European productions. And the language is not nearly so precious in say Albanian or Greek as it has been in English.
Do not buy an anthology. Buy individual plays by a good publisher (Arden). Eventually you will find your way through all of them. Then buy an anthology.
"We are always using Shakespeare as a political tool".
An act of repression and people being stuck.
Wonderful Artist...politics sucks.
In the words of Joe E. Brown at the end of SOME LIKE IT HOT: "Well... Nobody's perfect."