New blog post from me:

Hair metal fantasy Cymbeline in McLaren Park

A review of San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s 2023 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-09-07-hair-metal-fantasy-cymbeline-in-mclaren-park/

#review #SFBay #Cymbeline #theater

ChatGPT, write me a Shakespeare play with aspects of The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, The Winter's Tale and Romeo and Juliet.
Must have Romans, yes, definitely Romans.
What's that?
Oh right, #Cymbeline!

110 years ago:
Cymbeline (US)
Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical Rome. An energetic cinematic pacing and intimacy show rapidly improving narrative technique and realism well beyond the limitations of the stage. Especially cinematic are the bedchamber scene in the first re...
1913-03-27
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/192064
#Cymbeline #LuciusHenderson #PreCode #ClassicMovies

Here's #MyShakespeareWinter part 36 of 37:

#Cymbeline is a dark horse favorite...a weird epic of banished lovers, scheming royals, ancient wars, pastoral comedy, family reunion, supernatural grace...one of his last plays, the Bard revisits his whole career here in giddy fashion