4Real Forums: Shakespeare VIEWING suggestions

Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.

Active Topics || Favorites || Member List || Search || About Us || Help || Register || Login

Living Literature
4Real Forums : Living Literature

Topic: Shakespeare VIEWING suggestions

Author

Message

<< Prev Topic | Next Topic >>

stefoodie
Forum Moderator

Joined: Feb 17 2005
Location: Ohio
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 8457

Posted: Sept 12 2007 at 4:49pm \| IP Logged

We've read a bunch of Shakespeare books, including Aliki's, Shakespeare for Young People, Bruce Coville's book, Burdett's, Tales from Shakespeare, listened to Jim Weiss....

I really would love to take the children (16, 11, 8 and 5) to see a Shakespeare play but all of them are PG or PG-13 (local Shakespeare productions). DD and I might go by ourselves to see Cymbeline and R&J.

Has anyone used the Standard Deviants Shakespeare DVDs and can you recommend them? We've never seen an SD DVD and have no idea what they're like.

I'm considering Wishbone but would prefer something a bit more sophisticated at this point.

The local Children's Theatre doesn't have any Shakespeare shows this year.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

__________________
stef

mom to five

CKwasniewski
Forum All-Star

Joined: March 31 2007
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 601

Posted: Sept 12 2007 at 5:02pm \| IP Logged

I've only investigated DVDs.....

I talked about the BBC version of Midsummer Night's Dream in the living lit thread. Even my dd5 loved it. Sure you could use that.

Twelfth Night production with Imogen Stubbs is "only" PG, adult things are discussed--wd probably go over little heads. Haven't seen it yet, but I am hoping to do so soon.

We have the Laurence Olivier Hamlet. It is shortened, but it is not too violent, etc., imo!

Let's face it, Shakespeare wrote for adults, about adult themes, emotions and actions.

Don't know about Standard Deviants.

hth
CK

JEJE
Forum Newbie

Joined: Sept 08 2007
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 42

Posted: Sept 12 2007 at 8:41pm \| IP Logged

I know you can borrow the Standard Deviant dvds from Netflix (if you have it) to preview. I have also considered buying these dvds from Rainbow Resource: http://rainbowresource.com/prodlist.php?sid=1189647510-38048 7&subject=6&category=1469

I would love to take my children to a youth production of a Shakespeare play. They have the Jim Weiss cd (Midsummer's Night's Dream and Taming of the Shrew I believe) and *love* it!

Jenica

Mom to: 10 yo dd, 7 yo ds, 4 yo dd, and 3 month old ds

caallas
Forum Newbie

Joined: May 31 2007
Location: California
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 17

Posted: Sept 24 2007 at 10:52pm \| IP Logged

My 9 yr. old son loves A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare 4 Kidz. He watched it everyday for awhile. It's has 8 songs added that are not corny sounding (which I expected, being a kids video). I enjoy it also. There is also a Macbeth DVD available. I found them at my library. I googled them and found their website with teacher recources...though I haven't checked them out yet.

Cindy

If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login
If you are not already registered you must first register

[Add this topic to My Favorites]

Printable version

Forum Jump

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot create polls in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

Hosting and Support provided by theNetSmith.com