news, views and reviews of Shakespeare on film (and in the Pacific Northwest)
Jan 22nd, 2008 by Debra
Praise God and pass the remote! According to this article by Brian Scott-Lipton, posted on Theatermania.com, RSCs recent production of King Lear, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Sir Ian (and Romola Garai as Cordelia), is to be broadcast on PBS this fall and the Beeb in December. A DVD is also to be released, but no word yet when.
Huzzah!
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.