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    Posted: June 16 2019 at 08:08
Hi,

Not a poll but a fun topic, and I placed it here because this is the section where we have discussed film, and a lot of writers, and actors and such ... so here goes ...

WHO IN ROCK WOULD PLAY WHICH CHARACTER IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY?

Ian Anderson --- Falstaff (of course! Cods optional!)
Jon Anderson --  Hamlett  (too much talk and not enough action!)
Peter Hammill -- Othello (he loves, he hates ... etc)
Renate K. -- Lady Macbeth (bring Mozambique along, please!)
Christian Decamps -- The Fool
Michael Keaton -- Dogberry (... even though he doesn't sing ... he probably could, too!)
Mick Jagger -- Iago
Joe Cocker -- Richard II


(... and I can't even select the women! ... go figure ... but Kate Bush is DEFINITELY not a Bronte or Austen heroine of some sort! That would be an injustice!)

Gotta fit these folks somewhere, right?
Francesco Di Giacomo
Lothar Meid
Daevid Allen
Gilli Smyth
Courtney Swain
Edgar Broughton




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I love Jon Anderson, but would he be able to remember his lines? Hamlet has a lot of them.

Now, who to play Ophelia?
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well, which female singer looks like this:


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I actually think Kate Bush would be a great Ophelia


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^^ Tori Amos ?
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I love that artwork...Have a beautifully framed print of Ophelia in my guest room.  Huge fan of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Whoever it is has to be convincingly mad, as well as madly convincing, methinks.
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

I actually think Kate Bush would be a great Ophelia

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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

well, which female singer looks like this:


Jess Glynne.
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Tony Iommi as Prospero from the Tempest
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Falstaff is in my opinion more for Greg Lake in his latter years


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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

I actually think Kate Bush would be a great Ophelia

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Maybe it was the song ... I thought she fit WUTHERING HEIGHTS better than any Shakespeare, although she probably could be placed with any of the women in the Italian plays, of the fun ones, for example.

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Falstaff is in my opinion more for Greg Lake in his latter years.
...

I like his early work, and even with King Crimson, when his voice was used more as an actor, than a singer. That picture of his later days, is so sad to me ... the kind of thing that we all do not want to see happen to anyone at all.

GOT ANOTHER ONE ... 
The Mael brothers (Sparks) ... Rosencrantz and Guildenstern


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Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

Tony Iommi as Prospero from the Tempest

Interesting choice, although I do not think of him as a story teller, and/or a narrator ... 

Edgar Broughton is the one I thought might do this really well. His lyrics, are exceptional, and if you listen to the "RockPalast" show of theirs, you can see how timeless a lot of his words were in the material that they did, that we thought at the time (gosh ... almost 50 years ago!) ... were far out, but I really was sure that most people were not ready for something like Roccococooler ... it's all too much ... how prophetic that is!

I was thinking that a DAVID BOWIE would be interesting since his acting ability would allow him to do this, but I do not think he could be as strong word-wise, as Sir John Gielgud was in Peter Greenaway's version of the story (PROSPERO'S BOOKS), which was the definitive "reading" of the words. And now, finding a rock somebody to bring out those words, would be very tough!


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Originally posted by patrickq patrickq wrote:

I love Jon Anderson, but would he be able to remember his lines? Hamlet has a lot of them.

Now, who to play Ophelia?

Iago has the most lines ... I think it is something like 574 of them! Probably more!
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

Tony Iommi as Prospero from the Tempest


Interesting choice, although I do not think of him as a story teller, and/or a narrator ... 

Edgar Broughton is the one I thought might do this really well. His lyrics, are exceptional, and if you listen to the "RockPalast" show of theirs, you can see how timeless a lot of his words were in the material that they did, that we thought at the time (gosh ... almost 50 years ago!) ... were far out, but I really was sure that most people were not ready for something like Roccococooler ... it's all too much ... how prophetic that is!

I was thinking that a DAVID BOWIE would be interesting since his acting ability would allow him to do this, but I do not think he could be as strong word-wise, as Sir John Gielgud was in Peter Greenaway's version of the story (PROSPERO'S BOOKS), which was the definitive "reading" of the words. And now, finding a rock somebody to bring out those words, would be very tough!

Tony does bot need a voice, he has hes Gibson Les Paul to talk for him

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