KING JOHN (2015)

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Heavenly Shows and Unnecessary Letters

That's Not Canon Productions

13 episodes

3 months ago

There are 835,997 words in the plays of Shakespeare. Heavenly Shows and Unnecessary Letters is a podcast where two theatre nerds watch productions of all 39 Shakespeare plays, and have a chat about the challenges and successes in adapting the work for modern stage and screen. If you’re a fan of Shakespeare, or theatre, or just like to listen to people challenge their stamina for consuming iambic pentameter, this podcast is for you.

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KING JOHN (2015)

Heavenly Shows and Unnecessary Letters

39 minutes 20 seconds

5 years ago

KING JOHN (2015)

Tammy and Luke explore and review the 2015 Stratford Festival production of Shakespeare's King John.

EPISODE NOTES: This is the first show we’re recording after our first episode released, and we’re absolutely flabbergasted by how many people have listened to our show; we came into this with no expectations, and they have been blown away, honestly.

Coming into something with no expectations and being blown away is kind of a theme this week, because King John is not exactly the most popular and frequently performed play in the canon. Our last two episodes, we picked the adaptation because we loved an actor in the cast, or to take advantage of a major theatre company releasing a work to the world for free; this week, we chose a Canadian adaptation, because the other options were a silent film from 1899, and a Hindi adaptation from 1936. Serendipity abounds, however, because while this was a minor adaptation of a minor work, it was much more than the sum of its parts, as Shakespeare so often is.

Nice Hat: https://meeper.org/hsaul/ep3/nicehat.png

Blackfriars Theatre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars_Theatre

Stratford Festival @ Home is streaming this show worldwide for free from June 11 to July 2: https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/AtHome

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Editing by Tammy Sarah Linde and Luke O'Hagan

Music by Luke O'Hagan

Audio excerpt from Henry V used under a Creative Commons License from Archive.org - license available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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