Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 5, No. 0876.  Tuesday, 1 November 1994.
 
(1)     From:   Bernice W. Kliman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
        Date:   Sunday, 30 Oct 1994 20:33 EDT
        Subj:   Video on Stage
 
(2)     From:   Christine Couche <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
        Date:   Monday, 31 Oct 1994 10:35:21 +0800 (WST)
        Subj:   re: Mixed Media Shakespeare
 
 
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From:           Bernice W. Kliman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Sunday, 30 Oct 1994 20:33 EDT
Subject:        Video on Stage
 
Dave Evett and others interested in video on stage may be interested in "Video
in Andrzej Wajda's Stage *Hamlet IV*" in the *Shakespeare on Film Newsletter,*
vol. 14.2 (April 1990): 7-8.
 
Cheers,
Bernice W. Kliman
 
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From:           Christine Couche <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Monday, 31 Oct 1994 10:35:21 +0800 (WST)
Subject:        re: Mixed Media Shakespeare
 
Dear Sallie Cooper,
 
I saw a production of M for M with a very bare stage and three large video
screens at the back of the stage, kind of wrapping around the action, on which
they flashed past scnes of the action (pre-filmed of course) as well as lines
of the play (one at a time) and symbols relating to the action (e.g. the
executioner's axe, a burning heart). The overall impression was one of the
actors dwindling away to nothing in front of the screens, and finding oneself
frustrated by the double focus, especially if the images on the screen were
moving, or if the images were different on each screen. In short, not terribly
successful. Neither have I been terribly successful in remembering whose
production it was, but I'm sure it played in Melbourne and Sydney as well as
Perth (any eastern states Autralians on the list??).
 
Hope this is at least of some interest
 
Chris Couche
University of Western Australia

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