romeo and juliet
Sun, 6 Oct 2002, 02:57 pmWalter Plinge10 posts in thread
romeo and juliet
Sun, 6 Oct 2002, 02:57 pmWe have all seen this play a hundred times before, so for Angela Chaplin to get someting new from this production at the Hayman was bound to be difficult, but with Emily Brennan as Juliet she did just that. Juliet was portrayed as the very young innocent teenager that she was, fawning, giggly, with a big crush on her cousin Romeo - Ian Meadows. With very strong perfomances from the leads and Zilla Turner - the nurse, Renato Fabretti - Mercutio and Crispian Chan as Tybalt the show flowed nicely.
The presentation was superb, with excellent lighting and a simple but very effective set.
The presentation was superb, with excellent lighting and a simple but very effective set.
Re: The 'reults' are in...
Mon, 14 Oct 2002, 11:52 pmLucyWB wrote:
>
> I too am a member of the spelling and grammar police, and
> must defend the spelling of my friend (and fan - cheers
> Chesterton):
>
> "pronounce
> pronouncing
> pronouncedly
> pronouncement...
>
> proNUNciate
> proNUNciational
>
> (mis)proNUNciation: the act or the reult of producing
> sounds of speech, including articulation, vowel and consonant
> formation, accent, inflection and intonation, often with
> reference to the correctness or acceptability of the speech
> sounds"
Hi Lucy
I've had this conversation privately with Amanda; I wasn't taking the piss out of her and I'm glad she was taking the Shakespearean pronunciation to task (after all, the same director is about to produce the same play professionally next month..!!)
I reassured Amanda her spelling of 'mispronunciation' was entirely correct (although I would like to take it up with whoever invented our twisted language).
My spelling of "mispronounciate" in that little iambic couplet is neither here nor there, it just needed to scan. The humorous intention of my perhaps too subtle 'spelling nazi' joke was...there's no such word. (It should be 'mispronounce'.)
Cheers,
crgWllmShkspr
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>
> I too am a member of the spelling and grammar police, and
> must defend the spelling of my friend (and fan - cheers
> Chesterton):
>
> "pronounce
> pronouncing
> pronouncedly
> pronouncement...
>
> proNUNciate
> proNUNciational
>
> (mis)proNUNciation: the act or the reult of producing
> sounds of speech, including articulation, vowel and consonant
> formation, accent, inflection and intonation, often with
> reference to the correctness or acceptability of the speech
> sounds"
Hi Lucy
I've had this conversation privately with Amanda; I wasn't taking the piss out of her and I'm glad she was taking the Shakespearean pronunciation to task (after all, the same director is about to produce the same play professionally next month..!!)
I reassured Amanda her spelling of 'mispronunciation' was entirely correct (although I would like to take it up with whoever invented our twisted language).
My spelling of "mispronounciate" in that little iambic couplet is neither here nor there, it just needed to scan. The humorous intention of my perhaps too subtle 'spelling nazi' joke was...there's no such word. (It should be 'mispronounce'.)
Cheers,
crgWllmShkspr
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