My kingdom for a time machine

[huinare]

Apparently The Old Vic was touring Richard III about a year ago and they stopped within a day trip of me.  Were this now instead of a year ago, I would probably say screw it and spend more money I don't have on getting the train there and seeing it, because my attitude to $ v. Quality of Life is starting to shift.  I've never had money and I've never done things normal adults have done, like go to a concert.  I shit you not, I have never been to a concert.

Anyway, the cool thing about this was that Richard III is my favorite play of all time, and Kevin Spacey was starring and I admire the hell out of Kevin Spacey.  I've enjoyed everything I've seen him in, Shakespeare or otherwise, and he's an avid Shakespearean.



- Space is artistic director of the Old Vic, since 2003.  How cool is that? 

- and is also alumnus of the same statewide high school competition thingy featured in Shakespeare High, a film in which he also appears and which I also have yet to get my hands on.

- Speaking of which, I sourced a clip of him talking about the film for a Shakespeare term paper last year (a paper which was, by and large, an excuse to couch my grievances with Mr. Laurence Olivier in fancy terms...Olivier also played RIII and he sucked; IMO, the dude on the right, Ralph Richardson as Buckingham, was way better, which had nothing to do with my thesis but still.)

- Back to Richard III, a delightfully evil role which has also been played by the likes of Sir Ian McKellan

and Al Pacino. 

Spacey was involved with Pacino's docudrama of the play quite some years ago, wherein he played Buckingham. 

This always makes me happy because I love Buckingham.  I immediately acquired a massive crush on Buckingham when reading the play 13 years ago, and still tend to weight that character highly in helping decide what my opinion of a Richard III production was.


- Wikipedia tells me Spacey also worked under the direction of Trevor Nunn in Richard II.  I love the hell outta some Trevor Nunn.  Wheee.


And you thought it was bad when I spazzed about Tolkien..