Reply to: Arise, Sir Jean-Luc Picard

[thunderlizard]

I wish I'd been able to see Sir Patrick Stewart (sounds weird, that) in Waiting for Godot earlier this year

It was pretty good. The only consolation I can offer is: if you imagine what it would have been like, you probably have an accurate picture.

[Doggy Styles]

I don't hold with those 'modern' Shakespeare productions

Except when ladies are running around semi-naked, like the Twelfth Night production I watched in the summer.

I definitely hold with those.

[Zippy]

I think that would be ace !

Imagine Patrick Stewart doing a serious monologue in something like Henry V, and then at a key moment turning to a fellow actor to give him orders and saying "Make it so !", followed by a wink to the audience.

I'm sure all would be forgiven ! Even the non-trekkies would have a giggle !

I don't hold with those 'modern' Shakespeare productions

[Board Game Geek]

A Trekkie, moi ?

There are quite a few email lists you can get on to get advance notice of what shows are on.

Anyway, I doubt most Trekkies are even slightly interested in Shakespeare. And thank God that any who are don't call out "make it so" etc during the performance

I think that would be ace !

Imagine Patrick Stewart doing a serious monologue in something like Henry V, and then at a key moment turning to a fellow actor to give him orders and saying "Make it so !", followed by a wink to the audience.

I'm sure all would be forgiven ! Even the non-trekkies would have a giggle !

[Platypus]

please stop rubbing it in.

It's nigh on impossible to get tickets for anything he's in, as all the bl**dy trekkies nab the tickets first.

A Trekkie, moi ?

There are quite a few email lists you can get on to get advance notice of what shows are on.

Anyway, I doubt most Trekkies are even slightly interested in Shakespeare. And thank God that any who are don't call out "make it so" etc during the performance

[scooterscot]

Make it so

I wish I'd been able to see Sir Patrick Stewart (sounds weird, that) in Waiting for Godot earlier this year - I haven't seen the play since a production at the Oxford Playhouse in 1981, but as soon as I heard that he and Sir Ian McKellen were to appear I could imagine what a cracking show it would be. The critics all seemed to think so. Serves me right for taking a gig outside London

Anyway, a well-earned honour IMHO

They'd stay next door to my wife's house in Bath when they were playing in town, Ian even gave us a pair of tickets for the stalls! I sheet you not...


PS: the story aint all that it's just got two really fantastic actors...

[norrahe]

I saw his Macbeth last year and The Tempest the year before - brilliant!

please stop rubbing it in.

It's nigh on impossible to get tickets for anything he's in, as all the bl**dy trekkies nab the tickets first.

[Platypus]

I wish I'd been able to see Sir Patrick Stewart (sounds weird, that) in Waiting for Godot earlier this year

I saw his Macbeth last year and The Tempest the year before - brilliant!

[Tensai]

I wish I'd been able to see Sir Patrick Stewart (sounds weird, that) in Waiting for Godot earlier this year ...

I once saw Rick Mayall and Ade Edmondson playing Vladimir and Estragon, brought a new comic slant to what is essentially a black play about futility.

It might also have some resonance with current bench-dwellers...

[norrahe]

Jensen Button received an MBE

[darmstadt]

Although not knighted, don't forget the Quo...

Status Quo OBE

[HairyArsedBloke]

A Labour Luvvie too.

Calculated to attract the geek vote in an election year?

[cojak]

I saw him in his one-man Christmas Carol once when I was working in London, the week before Christmas.

A grown-up's Jackanory.

Magical.

[singhr]

Never seen anything he's been in but have formed the impression that he is a total luvvie knob from interviews on TV. Thankfully my memories of William Shatner as Captain Kirk remain.

[OrangeHopper]

Saw him play Henry IV at Stratford back in 1974 or 1975.

"So shaken are we, so wan with care,
find we a time for frighted place to pant ...."

Great stuff.