Richard ii

[pepperland2.livejournal.com]

Hi,
I am a "Richard II"-fanatic from Germany. Some years ago I read a novel by Rebecca Gable and that got me into the Plantagenet theme (uh, that's rather an embarrassing way, is it not?). I almost fell in love with Richard II when I saw the Shakespeare play in 2005 in Germany, although it wasn't very good. Somehow I forgot all about it.

But some months ago I googled the internet and I came across a picture of Ian McKellen as Richard and PENG! I was commpletely out of my mind :-) Now I finished writing a parody about the play and hope to get it published one day.


Oh, that blue eyes... the blue flower of romanticism


I coloured the original picture, because....... I am obsessed


Some playing around with morphing


Guh............


That's the face!
This is how I always imagined Richard in the play without even knowing the 60s McKellen


All pics taken from the official Ian McKellen website, except the first: http://www.photographersdirect.com/buyers/stockphoto.asp?imageid=2283015


 

Comments

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

...HOLY CRAP YOU SAW THAT PRODUCTION I AM SO JEALOUS.

I wasn't even born yet when that production happened, but OMG.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Actually, I saw it two years in a row, because I was studying in Stratford the first year, when Pasco played Richard against Morgan Sheppard as Bolingbroke, and then the next year when I was at Oxford and went to Stratford to see Pasco and Richardson alternate. The moment I remember most is Richard doing his "Down, down I come," speech in an overly dramatic manner, and the director had Henry BOlingbroke break into sarcastic applause. A few years later I met Morgan Sheppard when he came to Washington, D.C. with the RSC in another production. I got to go to the cast party, and told him he had managed that moment of Bolingbroke being both sarcastic and funny brilliantly. He seemed stunned that someone had remembered him when the whole thrust of the show is about Richard.

It was a truly marvelous production, and I am so happy I got to see it three times.