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( TNA, once again being infuriatingly inconsistent )

Thank goodness for BBC Iplayer because they're clashing the Patrick Stewart Macbeth (which also has Scott Handy as a random [possibly Malcolm, if he is, I shall have to get this on DVD] [[OMG he is playing Malcolm!!]]) with TNA. That being said, dear Shakespeare directors, no more faux-Third Reich. Really. Really. Bored now.

Actually judging from a lot of the other imagery they're going to Soviet, not Nazi. I'm not sure that's any better, especially as they're handling it with the usual subtlety.

Also, dear director, if you cross cast probably Caithness, and then still have Banquo declaim that he can't tell a woman about Duncan's murder, after he's chased now female Caithness into the room to look for herself, it doesn't work.

It's even funnier when probably Caithness is Banquo's wife. I've looked it up, she actually got Lennox's bits.

Also, dear farking southerners, it doesn't matter that the place is actually pronounced Scoone. If you say it like that, the rhyme scheme doesn't work. In the play, it's pronounced 'scone' to rhyme with 'one'. Try not to break Shakespeare.

Meme Frenzy (part 2)

Shakespeare Meme - Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role

The obvious one would be Matt Smith as Hamlet, because he's one of the few actors I can think of that is young enough to be Hamlet, and good enough to portray him. That being said, if he doesn't want to, I'd love to see him as Andrew Augecheek as well.

If Kenneth Branagh (Sir Kenneth Branagh!!! So very happy) ever decides to do The Tempest I and my mother, god willing, will be there in a flash, hang the cost.

Polly Walker as Cleopatra is also on this list.

( Other Days )

Meme related - re: the AU meme (http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/778797.html) I'm trying to come up with a female version of 'hasn't got the cojones'. I've toyed with the obvious 'hasn't got the ovaries', but I'm not sure it works. I know "hasn't got the balls" comes from the habit of various cultures (I know the Roman definitely) for men to hold their genitals when swearing oaths etc, and I'm not sure there is a direct equivalent for easy grabbing, unless we're going for ODB style 'bam'-ing.