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Krystal Auernhamer |
Romeo and
Juliet at RSC |
Othello |
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Cori Drenth |
Romeo and Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Theatre | |||
Megan Powell |
Othello Horrible. Othello stunk, the staging stunk, it just stunk. This isn’t a favorite of mine to begin with, and this performance did nothing to improve my opinion. Othello failed to gain even the slightest inkling of sympathy -- he was too crazy, too mean, and too horrible to even put into words. Yuck. |
Romeo and Juliet - Royal Shakespeare Company The supporting cast was weak and I hated the staging. No one else on stage seemed to care about Romeo and Juliet, making it very hard for the audience to. I expected more from this company. |
Romeo and Juliet - The Globe Or should I say, Romeo and a halfass attempt at Juliet. This play couldn’t work with such a poorly acted Juliet, despite an awesome supporting cast. |
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Kristen Kuzak |
Romeo and Juliet (at the RS Theatre) a. I had pretty high expectations, seeing that we were in Stratford, and this play was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Sadly to say I was greatly disappointed in the whole performance. The actors were horrible and I felt like I was watching a high school performance. There was no chemistry between the characters, no emotions in the soliloquies and overall I just didn’t buy it. I expected a lot more from the place where Shakespeare was born. |
Othello (Theatre Royal – Bath) a. I found the main character (Othello) to be very weak, and that distracted me from being engrossed in the rest of the play. I felt his death was not a tragic death of a fallen hero, and had no emotion when he took his own life. The rest of the actors were decent; Iago was a very believable actor. |
Macbeth I am reluctant to put this play in this position but I just don’t like the plot. I thought the play was great – I just couldn’t enjoy it because of the story being told. The actor who played Macbeth did an excellent job; he was very intense and believable. The set was also amazing with the witches and the trap doors, but my dislike for the play prevented me from pure enjoyment of the actual performance. |
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Katie Persitz |
Othello |
Macbeth | Romeo and Juliet (both shows) | |
Kristi Jonikas |
Othello Othello was the worst play I’ve seen in my entire life. The actors were horrible. The props were horrible. They never really changed the scenes. The only giant props they had looked like giant coffins. All in all, I despised everything about this play and would like the three hours of my life back. |
Othello (this play was so bad it deserves 3 spots) | Othello | Romeo & Juliet (Stratford)Romeo and Juliet was not nearly as bad as Othello. It was just boring and drawn out. Romeo was good but the rest of the cast was not as strong as they could be. Juliet was much better here than the actress at the Globe, but that isn’t saying much! If we could take the Romeo and Juliet at the Globe and the production in Stratford and combine the good elements of each we could have had a very successful version of the story. |
Lauren Dart |
Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre- Juliet’s
performance was one of the only things I liked about this performance. The
other acting was weak and boring, and the play seemed to drag on. |
Richard II- Unlike other students in our class, the Landor Theatre made me feel very uncomfortable. I felt as though the actors were going to fall on me. I didn’t find their acting as strong as the actors we have seen, and I didn’t like the fact they had numerous people playing 2 or 3 characters because they didn’t dress them differently enough to remember who they were. | Othello- I liked Othello, just not as much as the others. I thought that the staging was constructive and deconstructive and the same time. Although it helped with identifying characters, having all the actors on stage took away from what was going on in the scene. | |
Nikki Graham |
1. Othello a.) Staging – awful b.) Stage directions – boring…I lost interest at several points during the play. c.) Not very much action/motion on stage. d.) The actor who played Othello wasn’t very demanding while on stage – very weak and child-like. e.) The actor who played Iago seemed to take away from Othello’s character. |
Romeo and Juliet (The Royal Shakespeare Theatre production) a.) No chemistry among the actors b.) Horrible acting except for Juliet) c.) There were points where there was a lack of stage direction – characters seemed to just stand around while others talked. |
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Junk Wiest |
Othello – the actors that played Iago and his wife
were great, but Othello was very weak |
Romeo and Juliet @ the RSC – whole production was bad | All’s Well That Ends well – wasn’t fond of the play when I read it and the production needed some tweaking. | |
Michael Price |
Romeo and Juliet (at the RSC Theatre)—in simple
words, boring as hell. I gained no new experiences from watching this play.
Even though the acting was good, I just felt no emotion from most of the
cast. |
Othello—this play was disappointing mainly due to the performance of the leading character Othello. I really found his performance to be lacking and emotionally wrong at most points. The show to me seemed to belong to the supporting characters like Cassio, Iago and his wife. | Richard II—this play is here mainly for the location it was performed in. Being in a theatre above a bar and really really small seemed to limit the capabilities of the cast for their production of the play. I had nothing against the acting of most of the crew and they did a fine job with the stage they were on but it just would have been a better experience for me at a different theatre. | |
Aimee Brzezinski |
Romeo and Juliet in the Globe |
Romeo and Juliet in the Royal Shakespeare Theater | Othello | |
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