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We think it's very important for you all to have some experience of how A Midsummer Night's Dream has been staged, and so we're going to show you a series of video recordings from different product...ions. Of course, what we'd really like to do is take you all to the theatre to see several different performances, but we can't. Still, this is the next best thing, and we'll also give you the chance to hear what audiences have thought about this well loved play. What do you think a fairy should look like? It's this question perhaps more than any other, which has to be answered by the production team staging this play. [T]his section of the video is going to concentrate on the way actors can create radically different interpretations of a Shakespearean role. We'd also like you to think about a more practical point, which is often neglected by audiences as well as academics, the casting process. In the next section graduates of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art return to hear the views of a very experienced television and theatre performer. Best known in Britain for playing in situation comedy in the nineteen seventies and eighties, Richard Briers returned lo classical theatre as Malvolio for the Renaissance Theatre Company. We can explore the similarities in performance between classical theatre and popular comedy by seeing Twelfth Night as a situation comedy of its day.
We think it's very important for you all to have some experience of how A Midsummer Night's Dream has been staged, and so we're going to show you a series of video recordings from different product...ions. Of course, what we'd really like to do is take you all to the theatre to see several different performances, but we can't. Still, this is the next best thing, and we'll also give you the chance to hear what audiences have thought about this well loved play. What do you think a fairy should look like? It's this question perhaps more than any other, which has to be answered by the production team staging this play. [T]his section of the video is going to concentrate on the way actors can create radically different interpretations of a Shakespearean role. We'd also like you to think about a more practical point, which is often neglected by audiences as well as academics, the casting process. In the next section graduates of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art return to hear the views of a very experienced television and theatre performer. Best known in Britain for playing in situation comedy in the nineteen seventies and eighties, Richard Briers returned lo classical theatre as Malvolio for the Renaissance Theatre Company. We can explore the similarities in performance between classical theatre and popular comedy by seeing Twelfth Night as a situation comedy of its day.
