Slings & Arrows: Season Two
Don’t forget – Sundance is showing all six episodes of Season Two of Slings & Arrows today from 3pm to 8pm. Then, the new season begins at 8pm.
Use the comments section of this post to discuss any aspect of Season Two. You can discuss the Darren Nichols production of Romeo & Juliet, the new internship program, Frog Hammer’s marketing campaign, Ellen’s audit, the main stage production of, um, “Mackers,” or the elementary school version of it.
You can continue to discuss Season One in my earlier post here. And I’ll start putting up a thread to discuss Season Three episodes each Sunday, starting this afternoon.
Here’s a taste of Season Two to hold you over until 3pm.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Just wanted to mention that Sanjay is played by Colm Feore and it was his magnificient Iachimo (Cymbeline) that I saw at the Stratford Fest in 1986. It’s over 20 years and I remember him climbing out of the truck like a snake as if it were yesterday…
February 20th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Sanjay is my favorite thing about Season Two.
“Let’s see where the conference room is today.”
Iachimo is a great role, and the right actor can really shine in it. Feore must have been amazing to see.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Indeed he was. Looking back, it made the biggest impression on me of any other element of the things I saw that week: Maccers, Henry VIII, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Pericles, Cymbeline, A Man for All Seasons. But I have to say, my favorite line of Season Two is when Arsinee Khanjian (wife of one of my all time favorite film directors Atom Egoyan’s, btw) tries to stave of the curse, spins around 3 times and falls off the stage and Oliver says “The air is positively THICK with irony.”….
February 20th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
That sounds like a great line-up. We should check out Stratford this year. Slings & Arrows has reinvigorated my interest, and they’re doing King Lear.
Favorite line in Season Two? Hard to say with such dense writing, but the one that’s sticking out in my head right now is “Trust you? If you want people to trust you, Richard, don’t fucking quote Richard Nixon.”
I’m also thinking of the scene between Richard and the Minister of Culture, but I can’t quote any of the lines from memory.