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The Trial of Romeo Oscar review – Ayckbourn goes back to the future with android accused of murder https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/11/the-trial-of-romeo-oscar-review-alan-ayckbourn-stephen-joseph-theatre-scarborough #Theatre #Stage #Culture #AlanAyckbourn #Comedy #Comedy #StephenJosephTheatre #Technology #Robots #RomeoAndJuliet #WilliamShakespeare

The Trial of Romeo Oscar review – Ayckbourn goes back to the future with android accused of murder
By Nick Ahad

Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe playwright explores our relationship with technology, asks if robots have souls and even questions the value of art in this sci-fi courtroom drama

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/11/the-trial-of-romeo-oscar-review-alan-ayckbourn-stephen-joseph-theatre-scarborough

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Movie Review: As You Like It (1978)

Title: As You Like It
Release Date: December 17, 1978
Director: Basil Coleman
Production Company: Time-Life Television Productions | BBC
Main Cast:

• • Helen Mirren as Rosalind
  • Brian Stirner as Orlando
  • Richard Pasco as Jaques
  • Angharad Rees as Celia
  • James Bolam as Touchstone
  • Clive Francis as Oliver
  • Richard Easton as Duke Frederick
  • Tony Church as Banished Duke
  • John Quentin as Le Beau
  • Maynard Williams as Silvius
  • Victoria Plucknett as Phebe
  • Marilyn Le Conte as Audrey
  • Tom McDonnell as Amiens
  • David Lloyd Meredith as Corin
  • Arthur Hewlett as Adam
  • Jeffrey Holland as William
  • Timothy Bateson as Sir Oliver Martext
  • David Prowse as Charles
  • John Moulder-Brown as Hymen
  • Paul Bentall as Jacques de Boys
  • Peter Tullo as Palace Lord

• Mike Lewin as Palace Lord
• Carl Forgione as Banished Duke’s Lord
• Max Harvey as Banished Duke’s Lord
• Chris Sullivan as Dennis
• Paul Phoenix as Page
• Barry Holden as Page

Synopsis (via Letterboxd):

Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest, where he meets a lady of the court, Rosalind. Rosalind (daughter of the deposed duke) is companion to Celia, niece of the deposed Duke, and when the current duke banishes Rosalind from the kingdom, she, Celia, the court jester (and incidentally Orlando) all end up in the forest or Arden, where the deposed Duke holds court. Romantic mixups, cross-dressing, love poems nailed to trees, and a lion await them all.

My Thoughts:

I’ve returned to BBC Television Shakespeare which is always a good option for Shakespeare’s plays that don’t get as many movie adaptations.  I was hoping to watch a 1961 Royal Shakespeare Company performance with Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind, but couldn’t find the film anywhere (although the audio is on YouTube).  Of course, Helen Mirren is no slouch and she shines in her performance of Rosalind.  Unlike most of the BBC productions which are filmed on sound stages, As You Like It is filmed entirely on location with the better part of the movie set in the forest.  With that being said, it is a bit strange that all the characters just hang out in the woods with no tents or other structures.  The cast is talented but the script doesn’t allow anyone to stand out apart from Mirren.  Dave Prowse, famous for playing Darth Vader, makes an appearance as a wrestler.  As one of Shakespeare’s more musical plays, there are some delightful songs as well.  The problem though is that this production is just too much of a straight, by-the-book run-through of a play that really needs a more compelling dramatic approach.

Rating: ***

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Sonnet 94, ll. 13-14 (pub. 1609)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

ISABELLA:                   Truth is truth
   To the very end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Measure for Measure, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 51ff (5.1.51-52) (1604)

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William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Judi Dench – Helen Mirren – Diana Rigg – Ian Holm 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Ry0lUghcw

Restored Version by Shakespeare Network. – This was the first live-action version of this play to be filmed in colour.

All B-list romances lead to Rome | Culture Shot

The moment I returned to my couch at home over spring break, my mom told me there was…
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https://www.europesays.com/italy/7283/

Patrick Stewart Reads All 156 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in New Audiobook
#Variety #News #PatrickStewart #WhattoHear #WilliamShakespeare

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/patrick-stewart-shakespeare-sonnets-audiobook-1236680391/

To hiss or not to hiss.

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A quotation from Shakespeare

Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England;
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding tooth ports and costs for transportation,
And that you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority quite silent by your brawl,
And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;
What had you got? I’ll tell you. You had taught
How insolence and strong hand should prevail,
How order should be quelled; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live an aged man,
For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,
Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Sir Thomas More, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 55ff (c. 1592)

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" #WilliamShakespeare‘s gift for words is no secret. And what a waste his gift would be if he wasn’t finding new and inventive ways to tell people they were jerks? Right to their face!"

Sam looks at some of Shakespeare's #insults and classic #oneliners that still hit hard. 📚

⤵️

https://www.booknotification.com/blog/6-times-shakespeare-mastered-the-insult/

A quotation from Shakespeare

KING RICHARD: For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
   And tell sad stories of the death of kings —
   How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
   Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
   Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
   All murdered.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 160ff (3.2.160-165) (1595)

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To hiss or not to hiss.
🐍🐍🐍
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A quotation from Shakespeare

BOLINGBROKE: How long a time lies in one little word!
   Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
   End in a word; such is the breath of kings.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 218ff (1.3.218-220) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

BOLINGBROKE: How long a time lies in one little word!
   Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
   End in a word; such is the breath of kings.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 218ff (1.3.218-220) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

BOLINGBROKE: How long a time lies in one little word!
   Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
   End in a word; such is the breath of kings.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 218ff (1.3.218-220) (1595)

More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardii #decree #diktat #king #power #royalty #sentence #time

A quotation from Shakespeare

BOLINGBROKE: How long a time lies in one little word!
   Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
   End in a word; such is the breath of kings.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 218ff (1.3.218-220) (1595)

More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

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Was wäre passender am #Welttoilettentag als der spülende Poet Toiletten-#Shakespeare!?

Nun, vermutlich viel. Aber ich bin zu müde euch was Besseres zu bieten. ;)

#KätToon #Worldtoiletteday #Toilet #Toilette #Klo #WC #williamshakespeare #Toilettentag #Toiletday

Was wäre passender am #Welttoilettentag als der spülende Poet Toiletten-#Shakespeare!?

Nun, vermutlich viel. Aber ich bin zu müde euch was Besseres zu bieten. ;)

#KätToon #Worldtoiletteday #Toilet #Toilette #Klo #WC #williamshakespeare #Toilettentag #Toiletday

Was wäre passender am #Welttoilettentag als der spülende Poet Toiletten-#Shakespeare!?

Nun, vermutlich viel. Aber ich bin zu müde euch was Besseres zu bieten. ;)

#KätToon #Worldtoiletteday #Toilet #Toilette #Klo #WC #williamshakespeare #Toilettentag #Toiletday

« Oberon, Titania And Puck With Fairies Dancing » by William Blake

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/762523739334344704/oberon-titania-and-puck-with-fairies-dancing

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"Give me your hands if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends."
last sentence of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by #WilliamShakespeare new on #isbnmaschine
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"The noise they make Will cause Demetrius to wake."
middle sentence of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by #WilliamShakespeare new on #isbnmaschine
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"Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace."
first sentence of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by #WilliamShakespeare new on #isbnmaschine
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Neu fertig gestellt, die Abstraktion von William Shakespeares A Midsummern Night's Dream. Die erste Abstraktion in der Grundfarbe grün:
529 Quadrate, 500 Sprechblöcke, 303 verschiedene Hintergrundfarben, 363 verschiedene Textfarben.

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So I was having cocktails with a friend and some of his friends…
His Friend: So I understand #Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare…
My Friend (frantically waving arms): No, stop!
Me (eyes turning Terminator red): What?!
My Friend: It’s too late!
His Friend: We don’t have to get into….
Me: No. You have chosen and chosen poorly. We are committed to the path though it take these next 2 hours.
(And, dear reader, it did.)
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