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ASC produces the plays of Shakespeare as well as other classics and classically inspired works, staged readings, and, most recently, podium readings of new, Shakespeare themed plays. Additionally, ASC offers an exciting and varied menu of educational programming for students from elementary school to adult.
Heed the Past, Create the Future
Midsummer Night's Dream 2010
ASC at the West Side Theater, Jersey City, NJ
2 comments:
I like Sir Ian's take as it springs from his first moment "tomorrow" -- as I'll deal with that tomorrow -- and unexpectedly gives rise to a whole collection of dread and doomsday thoughts that fills him with horror. Sir Patrick's beginning moment has the same reading as McKellen, but he's hampered by the stage business which happens throughout this concept film. His rendering is more reflective, yet he reached me with an intimacy that carried the day in this comparison of 2 great actors.
I so totally agree with you, Peter. There is something so subtle, so deeply poetic about McKellan's epiphany. The Stewart rendition is more soldierly, and I have always felt that somehow what makes a Shakespearean hero a tragic one is that he has a deeply artistic, sensitive core that is at odds with what he wants/needs to do to satisfy the world he inhabits. . .
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