The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0349 Thursday, 26 August 2010
[1] From: David Evett <
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Date: August 2, 2010 11:11:09 PM EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 21.0340 Two Gents at Stratford Festival
[2] From: Mark Aune <
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Date: August 3, 2010 7:04:37 AM EDT
Subj: RE: SHK 21.0340 Two Gents at Stratford Festival
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From: David Evett <
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Date: August 2, 2010 11:11:09 PM EDT
Subject: 21.0340 Two Gents at Stratford Festival
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0340 Two Gents at Stratford Festival
>I find it impossible to believe that even (or particularly) a trained and
>therefore traumatised bear could be relied upon to enter and exit on cue
>without being led on a chain, which would defeat the purpose of the effect.
>They are unpredictable. I certainly would not relish being in the vicinity
>of a grown bear that wasn't both chained and muzzled-particularly in the
>equally unpredictable and scary-to-the-bear public theatre audience.
A question here is whether the play was first performed at Blackfriars, with
something like a lights-down at the end of the first half. If so, the bear did
not have to do more than appear briefly through the center-stage entrance,
perhaps through a pair of curtains, which means that a bear-ward at the other
end of a controlling chain would have been dimly if at all visible. And a
similar effect could have been managed, I think, at the Globe.
David Evett
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From: Mark Aune <
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Date: August 3, 2010 7:04:37 AM EDT
Subject: 21.0340 Two Gents at Stratford Festival
Comment: RE: SHK 21.0340 Two Gents at Stratford Festival
Dear all,
Having just returned from Stratford ON, I can confirm that a real dog, a basset
hound named Otto. Its understudy is named Keppy, breed unknown.
As for Winter's Tale, the bear was not real, but impressive.
Best,
Mark
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