I'm still always going to be sad that I'll never see Alan Cummings' one-man Macbeth, but Branagh/Kingston sounds like an excellent consolation prize (if prize is even an appropriate word for that play (and now I have to go rewatch S2 of Slings & Arrows right now)).

I really, really loved the Whedon ensemble Much Ado. Better than Branagh's? I dunno, and I dun care. It's Shakespeare; it's meant to have multiple takes on it out there floating around. I want more Much Ados. More all of them. Except that really all the Much Ados from now on into perpetuity should have Fillion and Lenk.

You know that he's going to be playing the role soon, right? Alongside Alex Kingston as Lady M.

OH MY GEEKY HEART!

!!!!

I just had le petit mort. TMI?!

Man I would love to see that.

Lenk is tiny. Talking to Lenk and Danny Strong a a party made me feel not-short which is very rare occurrence.

Lenk is tiny.

Okay. Because Nathan Fillion looked HUGE next to him. It was crazy.

Fillion is a delicious amount of large, but not scary.

The MacBeth is playing in my local theatre, so I wouldn't be surprise if it played pretty wide. It's the National Theatre's 50th, so they are also rebroadcasting some of their popular NT Live shows.

Also Tom Hiddleston is doing Coriolanus for them in the winter. [link]

t /still a little bitter they didn't hire me

I saw NT Live's The Audience w. Helen Mirren last week. I left at the interval. The performances were fine, but the play was meh. I don't really care that much about humanising the Queen or British PMs.

Saw Much Ado. Liked it. Thought Reed Diamond and Clark Gregg were especially good, and Amy Acker was great. I also liked Fran Kranz in what's a pretty difficult role. It probably helps that I'm in the middle of a Dollhouse watch.

I saw Much Ado this weekend as well -- it was very enjoyable and Amy Acker in particular was outstanding. Alexis Denisof was hilarious and he and Acker had fun bantering chemistry but I kinda thought they didn't have that "OMG they must get it on" type of sizzling romantic chemistry. Weirdly enough, I got more frisson out of that brief bit between Beatrice and Don Pedro, when he asks, half in jest and half seriously, "will you have me, lady?" and she tells him no, with just the right amount of humour and regret and gentleness.

No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days:
your grace is too costly to wear every day.
But, I beseech your grace, pardon me:
I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.

I would totally read some AU Don Pedro/Beatrice, is what I'm sayin'. Get on it, yuletide people. It's probably my Reed Diamond thing, which goes back to Homicide days. I thought he was splendid in a smallish part.

Joss's new ingenue who played Hero didn't bring much to the part, but Hero is a thankless role. Still, Kranz, in a similar part, was acting his heart out, and she was just... there. Ah well.

OMG the house porn. It left me helpless with longing.