Lyndon Hood - Restrospector, Lower Hutt
Monday, October 01, 2007
I've been carrying the programme from the RSC's King Lear and The Seagull in my bag, unreviewed. Occasionally it glares it me.
In lieu of that here's my review of the play of The Hollow Men.
I would also suggest John Lahr's profile of Ian McKellen in The New Yorker (link is to abstract). But the actual article doesn't seem to be online.
I was most struck by the way at one point he left a note for Lahr at his place in Stratford saying to come to the theatre. It turns out, the stand-ins for The Seagull were have a run-through, but the one playing his part was ill. So Sir Ian was standing in for him. This is not, as Lahr remarks, usual.
Quite a guy.
In other me news, this isn't really satirical, and it has a certain throwing stones while living in glass houses level of cheekiness:
New Hood: Richard Duthie - Shapershifter?
I'm going on holiday for a few weeks. In the meantime, if you haven't seen it, here's Helen Clark on The Chaser (who have a podcast):
In lieu of that here's my review of the play of The Hollow Men.
I would also suggest John Lahr's profile of Ian McKellen in The New Yorker (link is to abstract). But the actual article doesn't seem to be online.
I was most struck by the way at one point he left a note for Lahr at his place in Stratford saying to come to the theatre. It turns out, the stand-ins for The Seagull were have a run-through, but the one playing his part was ill. So Sir Ian was standing in for him. This is not, as Lahr remarks, usual.
Quite a guy.
In other me news, this isn't really satirical, and it has a certain throwing stones while living in glass houses level of cheekiness:
New Hood: Richard Duthie - Shapershifter?
I'm going on holiday for a few weeks. In the meantime, if you haven't seen it, here's Helen Clark on The Chaser (who have a podcast):
Labels: helen clark, Ian McKellen, media, reviews, the chaser, the hollow men, theatre
Lyndon Hood - pretender, Wellington
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
New Hood: Hood: Govt Struggles to Overreact to Tragedies
Here's something extra, from Extras, found on I Am Bored and put here as an experiment in multimedia goodness:
It gives me the urge to explain why acting is actually quite difficult. That acting is tricky is of course part of the reason the above is so Sir-Ian-ously funny. So I'll leave that on the 'to do' list.
Gandalf will be appearing with the RSC in King Lear and Checkov's The Seagull in Wellington and Auckland in August.
Here's something extra, from Extras, found on I Am Bored and put here as an experiment in multimedia goodness:
It gives me the urge to explain why acting is actually quite difficult. That acting is tricky is of course part of the reason the above is so Sir-Ian-ously funny. So I'll leave that on the 'to do' list.
Gandalf will be appearing with the RSC in King Lear and Checkov's The Seagull in Wellington and Auckland in August.
Labels: acting, extras, Ian McKellen, Ricky Gervais, satire
