There's a 1960 BBC miniseries adaptation of the history plays (Shakespeare's text, but divided into 1-hour-15-minute chunks) called An Age of Kings that features Connery as Hotspur. And unfortunately he kinda sucks. But it's available on DVD, and is otherwise excellent! (It also features a very young Judi Dench as…

Yeah, he will. Fuck a bunch of that. (And Richard II is my favorite play, so I am especially resentful about this.)

Yeah, I know people who say they can't find Kira sympathetic anymore after 9/11, and I feel like "…yeah, because clearly that was the first terrorist attack in the history of ever."

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus Fezzes are cool!

That is awesome. Plus there's bread pudding.

"Diabolical."
"Visionary!"

@avclub-40904cf5a179d97beb9f7f3f8c02e080:disqus And really only in makeup, for that matter (well, Biggs has his moments, but non-Cardassian Alaimo looks kind of like the Grinch).

@avclub-e773dbc579a0ef997675d836974d747c:disqus Yes, but Quark's is Ferengi-owned and operated, which means that all jizz-mopping is poorly compensated (MILD SPOILER: a later episode this season demonstrates that Quark's doesn't, at the time the episode takes place, operate under Federation or Bajoran regulations…

@avclub-2d8ab0375d529c0ccfcdb1c61a09f1c2:disqus Presumably at the same institution as Dr. Evil?

Oh, fair enough. I thought he might have been, but at any rate he wasn't working with the festival in the '90s when I started going.

@avclub-5563808a5a6d487587d3881b9dc95153:disqus  It's very Shakespearean, in a way — in the comedies there's always the one person who's on the outs of the happy ending. He's like the series' Malvolio.

I always get really uncomfortable during that one scene in season 2 where he's chewing out the cast for their failure to appreciate postmodernism, because it always makes me actually sympathize with him a little bit, and then I feel kind of icky.

Oh man, my dissertation director died of cancer the year the final season aired. It made parts of it really, really difficult to watch.

Jonathan Goad is fabulous. I loved him so much as Hotspur, and I was terribly sad when I couldn't go see him as the Bastard in King John (I remember the entire cast of that being brilliant and sorely regret missing it, plus I love that play).

What did you think of it? I thought Gross was really good, and Benedict Campbell was good as Claudius, but most of the rest of the cast ranged from adequate to terrible (Ophelia for instance was quite cringeworthy)

Geraint Wynn-Davies didn't really start doing stuff at the festival until after the last time I went (which was Pericles in 2003). And yeah, Stephen Ouimette is fantastic! One of the first productions I saw there was his Richard III in 1997 or '98, and I loved it.

You know, though, I kind of hope it doesn't. Not because I don't adore the show, but because I feel like the ending is perfect as it is.

Oh man, I love this show so much. When I was in grad school I got most of the other Ren lit people in my department hooked on it — it really is like a valentine for Shakespeare lovers.

And he sings the theme song!

Also, he kept his familiar under his sweater vest!