Question: what Shakespeare play starring a Magick-User makes a popular subject for filming these days? If you guessed The Tempest, you’d be right (especially after Helen Mirren’s amazing turn last year in Julie Taymor’s production). Notable Shakespearean actor Christopher Plummer (in all likelihood most familiar to Americans as Capt. von Trapp opposite Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music) played the role to great acclaim in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, in a filmed performance that will debut at Symphony Space in New York City, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, at 3:30pm (a question-and-answer session will follow). The Stratford festival says that DVDs of the performance will be available after a limited theatrical and television release (orders may be placed at 1-800-567-1600); a YouTube preview of the show may be seen here.
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[...] that someone films the Divine Ms. Redgrave in the part, if only in a filmed stage-version such as Christopher Plummer’s.) All this means, for Pagans: we see a reinvigorated interest in the one Shakespearean character to [...]