The false ears thing has been done before... possibly in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. (I don't care what anyone says, it's a great film.)

Where would you get false ears?? Hmm....



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PSD: If I can ever force myself on an airplane(get bloody sick everytime) then I'll happily show up at your doorstep. I've already been to our own RSC Theatre and look forward to seeing the real one.

So, the next time any of you folks are in the states, make your way to Stratford and I'll take you to our theatre.

It's not Stratford, but I'm off to the Globe in London tomorrow to see Richard III as a birthday treat. Bet there won't be any audience participation though...shame!



Naomi

last time I saw Richard III was at Pontefract Castle, bitterly cold it was, we had a view for miles all round, and how they got the moon to rise in the right place at the perfect time I'll never know

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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Oh, I dunno Naomi, I hear the groundlings at the Globe can get a bit frisky sometimes. (Would love to go).



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It's an all female cast, so I'm not quite sure what to expect......

Naomi

Sorry chaps but I can't bring myself to watch RIII again!

As a Richardian I find it very difficult to watch without getting very irrate. My old history teacher and a fellow Richardian, says watch it as pure fiction.

She herself is excellent at producing authentic Medeaval banaquets.

An all female cast! That could be good fun; I know not of this Kathryn Hunter in the lead .... let us know how it was.

Gill; You should watch *all* Shakey's 'histories' as pure fiction, cos they are. You don't have to be a Dick fan to know that ... Henry V especially ... cobblers from start to finish.

The worst one is the little performed Henry VIII; not only cobblers but dull with it.



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Very true Jon,

At least you'll know who will chuck a pile of manure on the stage when it gets to "A horse, a horse"

I've come up with a suitably ffordian heckle for Macbeth

First Witch " When shall we three meet again ?"
Audience "Thursday next !"

Skiffle, that was inspired!
All I can come up with for Macbeth is

Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot!
Audience brandish Clearasil and cotton-wool (they could mime squeezing a spot, I suppose but that might be a trifle vulgar in Shakespearian circles!)

Anyway, either suggestion is nothing compared with your flash of genius
We're not worthy!!!

For the Americans on the fforum : how widely travelled are you?

It was my experience in the States that lots of people just did not travel (and not just out of America, I met lots who'd never left the state they were born in and never seen the sea and things like that).
Local people were amazed when they found out that Dawn and I were driving round America, it was a totally alien concept to a lot of them. Don't get me wrong they were very nice people but they just didn't seem to be interested in seeing other parts of their country.

Well, that took the thread off the topic and away down route 66 .....



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I'm a Ricardian too, in the society's Susex group, as I mentioned in an earlier thread. One of the London Branch works at the Globe, and visits us occasionally as a guest lecturer. There was some talk in previous years about organising a get-together of Ricardians from different areas, to comprise as high a proportion as possible of the audience for one performance of the play (once they got around to showing it there), to surprise the cast by cheering Richard and booing his foes, but I don't know whether anything along those lines is currently being planned.

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"This was willed where what is willed... can get rather silly."

Literally...

Well, my family used to travel on the @#$%&, by camping. We had a pop-up trailer. You cranked it up and the roof went up, and beds popped out sideways. The sides were canvas, the bottom, top and door metal. Sort of a compromise between a tent and an RV.

I grew up in Michigan, and traveled with my family to various parts of Michigan (including the upper penninsula), and did family vacations in Maine (Acadia National Park), Kentucky (Smoky Mountains Natl. Park), and Florida (Disney World). We regularly visited my mothers parents in New Jersey (and later once in Miami), and visited her brother and his family in Boston a couple times. I've been in Ohio any number of times (most recently to meet Jasper in Dayton). I once took a Girl Scout trip to Wyoming, which is as far west as I've yet been, although I'm flying to Seattle to visit my brother in August.
I travel about once a year to medieval events in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

The only foreign country I've been to is Canada, which I've been to many times, since I only live an hour from the border (which is nice, since I can get Canadian TV and radio). Mainly in Ontario, either in Windsor, Toronto, or passing though on the way to New England (cutting through Canada is shorter than going south around the lakes). Oh, and we went to Niagra Falls once, and to Baltimore last year....

I went to School in Massachussets, and from there took a few trips into Connecticut and New York. Oh, and I took a High School trip to New York City with my Approaching the Arts class.

Lesseee.... total number of states I've at least driven through part of.....

Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennesee, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

By my count that's 22 states, plus one province of Canada (Ontario). And I'll be adding Washington State in August. I'll also be changing planes in the airport in Phoenix, Arizona, and flying over other states, but I don't think that counts.



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I've traveled "in country" quite a bit. My hubby and I adore taking road trips and trying to get lost. I've been all up and down the East Coast, grew up on the West Coast and we did a lot of camping and such there. I've even managed to hit quite a bit of the northern Mississippi Valley. I particularly liked Minneapolis. Been to Chicago, thru NYC but never stopped (going to New England many times!), and I live near Washington DC, so I've had my share of big cities. By a count, I've been to 27 states and even more if you count plane layovers!

My husband and I would like to take a month or so and drive the route that my ancestors went when they migrated from the South Eastern US to the Pacific Northwest all along the Oregon trail. And I need to go visit my brother, who lives near New Orleans.

I've hit quite a bit of Canada as well. Been ALL over British Columbia, and Alberta, I honeymooned in Nova Scotia, we've been to Ontario and New Brunswick. We plan on going to Newfoundland and PEI at some point. (I've read Anne of Green Gables and I feel it's necessary!)

My husband on the other hand, has been all over the US and Europe...Of course, he grew up mostly in Germany...so I guess that helps!

So maybe the people I met weren't totally representative then (we did stop over in some small places in the middle of nowhere). It just struck me as odd that there was so much to see but these people never went to see it. Think our state count was thirtysomething - i'll check + 3 provinces in Canada and a day in Mexico (it was a long trip :) )

I was once amused by someone from Japan who, talking about visiting America, figured they'd spend Monday in New York, then drive to California on Tuesday and Texas on Wednesday. Er..... (New York to Los Angeles is 2826 miles, or a 44 hour drive)

BTW, just did a bit of web research, which says the area in square miles of Michigan is 56,809 miles, and the area of England is 50,352 miles.

Yep, it's a big country.



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Adam, sounds like you had fun! And yes, there are a lot of Americans who really have never been anywhere...but I don't think you'll find many of them on this board. Simply because people who tend to stay that close to what they know wouldn't necessarily venture to read Jasper's books, as the books are probably too far out of the norm for someone who needs that security of the familiar. Did that make ANY sense? LOL

It made sense :o)

I'm disturbingly uninterested in travel, actually. I always feel I'm supposed to want to take off round the world, but I'm quite happy here. I'll visit America, I guess, and try and take holidays, but.... would rather spend money on books, frankly.

I went to France, Germany, Holland and Switzerland when I was a kid/ teenager. Since I was about 18, the only places I've been are a few scottish islands, plus London and, er, Leeds.



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