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desperanceAll through my teens, I got to see a lot of Shakespeare: at Stratford mainly, and in Oxford college gardens, and elsewhere. So I grew up thoroughly comfortable with the notion of old plays reset in other contexts: Hamlet in a nuclear bunker, Much Ado in the age of steam, more than one in the British Raj, yadda yadda.
But I am thinking back and thinking hard, and I haven't seen much other work apart from Shakespeare's revisited in that way; and of modern works by living playwrights, hardly any. Which is one reason why I'm really interested to see this:
As everybody has probably picked up by now, Sondheim is one of my mancrushes; I have loved him and all his works since I was a teenager, and I'm still ridiculously impressed by the guy. And Sweeney Todd of course is a favourite, how not; and it may be the one piece I've seen revived most often, just because it is the one piece that is revived most often - but I've never seen it reinvented, it's always been presented as written, as Victorian (1846, Wiki tells me) as its source material.
Until now. And now I not only want to see (and shall see, yay!) this new production that shifts it to the Blitz, but I really, really want to know what Stephen thinks about that...
But I am thinking back and thinking hard, and I haven't seen much other work apart from Shakespeare's revisited in that way; and of modern works by living playwrights, hardly any. Which is one reason why I'm really interested to see this:
As everybody has probably picked up by now, Sondheim is one of my mancrushes; I have loved him and all his works since I was a teenager, and I'm still ridiculously impressed by the guy. And Sweeney Todd of course is a favourite, how not; and it may be the one piece I've seen revived most often, just because it is the one piece that is revived most often - but I've never seen it reinvented, it's always been presented as written, as Victorian (1846, Wiki tells me) as its source material.
Until now. And now I not only want to see (and shall see, yay!) this new production that shifts it to the Blitz, but I really, really want to know what Stephen thinks about that...