I refuse to see any production that has that clueless of a marketing person...
what a horrid poster.
Par for the course with Seattle Shakes. They have the most consistently bland posters in the city.
Once again we see that you truly don't like older women having acting careers ...
Is that a man? Seriously.
Barfy! Arguably the fugliest cast ever on stage.
uh, that's NOT called for.
and Audrey, someone who's namelink is linked to fucking lameass Seattlest really shouldn't be pointing fingers at something they consider fugly.
Seattlest is one ugly motherfuckin' website.
too quote an awesome film "...that was harsh, Tai."
I liked that Harlett's older and...uh...not exactly a seductive nymph. Made things creepier! But they just pretended like that aspect wasn't there.
Plus I left my cap under the seat in the theatre and now they can't find it. So they're pretending like my cap wasn't there, either!
@3:
Oh, I didn’t want to respond to your petty provocations, but this is worth emphasizing.
All’s Well has a fantastic part for an older woman—the Countess—and Seattle Shakes chose to cast a barely middle-aged woman in that role.
Most of Shakespeare’s female characters are young, however, because the roles were going to young men, and it’s easier to believe a young man is a young woman than to believe he’s both a woman and 20-40 years older than he actually is.
I don’t object to Sarah Hartlett playing Helena because I can’t stand seeing slightly older women on stage. That’s ridiculous. But immature crushes are qualitatively different from mature love, and it’s much easier to forgive Helena for repeatedly throwing herself at a hostile guy if she’s young and silly than if she’s merely a woman. Make her old enough to know better, and you’re blaming her irrational obsessiveness solely on her sex. Would you prefer a production that overemphasizes the play’s sexism to one that attempts to visualize the role as written, even if it excludes some qualified actors? These are tough decisions, and not to be written off with these sorts of baseless accusations.
There's only one capital letter on the whole flier. I half surprised they didn't call him "bill".
Drop shadow is not OK.
Holy crap, is that Jean Godden's granddaughter (or possibly great-granddaughter)?
@11 wins. sadly.
I dunno. I think Shakespeare, like sex, follows the pizza analogy. Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
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