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[thehereticprinceseries]

The Heretic Prince, out March 26!

Some of the favorites from the character photoshoot we did yesterday!

Thank you so much to everyone involved!

Theo Malloy-Judd ( @whatfordyouyearn ) as Mychal Halwood

@credencecore as Samira Hollis

Jared Linder as Edris Thorne

Josh Sciko as Xander Neill

Photo credit to @credencecore and Nicole Fiorelli

[p-isforpoetry]

Master poetry playlist

Each of these links will redirect you to the relevant playlist on my non-monetized Youtube channel (new video every other day)

By actors

Tom Hiddleston (Words and Music, Ximalaya FM, Coriolanus watchalong with Josie Rourke, Tom and the cast, interviews, Betrayal reunion)

Bruce Alexander, Sam Alexander, Nonso Anozie, Richard Armitage, Dame Eileen Atkins, Annette Badland, Kathy Bates, Xander Berkeley, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Richard Burton, Simon Callow, Robert Carlyle, Helena Bonham Carter, Kim Cattrall, Glenn Close, Sir William "Billy" Connolly, Ben Crystal, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ossie Davis, Dame Judi Dench, Vincent D'Onofrio, Brian Dennehy, James Earl Jones, Beatie Edney, Mark Ebulue, Ralph Fiennes, Kate Fleetwood, Jodie Foster, Polly Frame, Morgan Freeman, Stephen Fry, Michael Gaston, Sir John Gielgud, Aidan Gillen, Rupert Graves, Eva Green, Sir Alec Guinness, David Harewood, Tom Hollander, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Alex Jennings, Toby Jones, Jude Law, Robert Sean Leonard, Damian Lewis, John Lithgow, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Helen Mirren, Richard Mitchley, Alfred Molina, Sir Roger Moore, Sam Neill, Al Pacino, Ron Perlman, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Sir Jonathan Pryce, Alan Rickman, Sir Simon Russell Beale, Susan Sarandon, Andrew Scott, Fiona Shaw, Michael Sheen, Gary Sinise, Dan Stevens, Sir Patrick Stewart, Mitchell Brian Stokes, Mark Strong, Natasha Richardson, David Tennant, Kathleen Turner, Eli Wallach, Dominic West and Samuel West.

In this playlist there is 1-1 poem read by Tony Amendola, Sebastian Arcelus, Mackenzie Astin, Gerry Bamman, Alan Bates, Gina Bellman, Cathy Belton, Edward Bennett, Tilly Blackwood, Claire Bloom, Lindy Booth, Peter Bowles, Eleanor Bron, Sir Michael Caine, Peter Capaldi, Sir Sean Connery, Lindsay Crouse, Ruby Dee, Adrian Dunbar, Lindsay Duncan, Noma Dumezweni, Adetomiwa Edun, Rupert Evans, Colin Farrell, Deborah Findlay, Edward Fox, Jonathan Frakes, Hugh Fraser, Jennifer Garner, Jill Gascoine, Annabeth Gish, Iain Glen, Ioan Gruffudd, Julie Harris, Josh Hartnett, John Heffernan, Douglas Henshall, Hozier, Sir John Hurt, Amy Irving, Sir Derek Jacobi, Peter Jacobson, Lennie James, Paterson Joseph, Rory Kinnear, Hugh Laurie, Sir Christopher Lee, Robert Lindsay, Ophelia Lovibond, Helen McCrory, Niamh McGrady, Sepideh Moafi, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Tessa Peake-Jones, Dame Sian Phillips, Wendell Pierce, Rosamund Pike, Diana Quick, Jemma Redgrave, Iwan Rheon, Sebastian Roché, Hugh Ross, William Sadler, Kerry Shale, Imelda Staunton, Rufus Sewell, Jenna Stern, Juliet Stevenson, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Jo Stone-Fewings, Tilda Swinton, Peter O’ Toole, Harry Treadaway, Indira Varma, Dame Harriet Walter, Sam Waterson, Fritz Weaver and Carolyn Wickwire.

By poets

W. H. Auden, William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Byron, Lewis Carroll, John Clare, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Robert Lowell, Christopher Marlowe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, E. A. Poe, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats and other poets.

Short scenes from movies/theatre plays

Coriolanus (Tom Hiddleston), King Lear (Sir Athony Hopkins), Much Ado About Nothing (Emma Thompson & Kenneth Branagh), Hamlet (Andrew Scott), Much Ado About Nothing (Catherine Tate & David Tennant), Macbeth (Sir Patrick Stewart)

[balletroyale]

Asked and Answered

Which Russian dancers you think are the best actors out there? I love their technique but sometimes they look dead inside, no emotions at all

I’d say Evgenia Obraztsova is the best hands down. I think Batoeva and Shakirova are pretty good as well. Osipova outside of Russia has improved a lot as well recently, though not all would agree with that. 

would you consider kevin o'hare and aurelie dupont good artistic directors?

I think Kevin O’Hare has been really good for the Royal Ballet, much better than Monica Mason IMO, who made some strange promotion decisions. The Royal Ballet is thriving right now and they’ve really expanded their online presence under him, which I’ve really liked. 

It’s hard for me to judge Dupont as I don’t follow the casting/admin decisions of POB that closely. 

have you ever watched ida praetorius from the royal danish ballet? i don't think she's as technically strong as other principal dancers, but she's one of the best actors i've ever seen - her portrayal of giselle was absolutely amazing! 

I haven’t really focused on the acting because it’s very difficult to get past the poor technique. 

hi! wrt your latest text post, what casting decision did you have in mind? iirc, the last time you made a similar post, renata had been cast as a shade. what happened this time? i'm not attacking you, just curious as i don't follow the mariinsky that closely

Sorry this took so long to answer this! It was actually in regards to Eleonora Sevenard dancing one of the divertissements in Swan Lake. 

helloooo what are your thoughts about Hannah O' Neill and Sae Eun Park?

I enjoyed them both in the recent broadcast of La Bayadere, probably Sae Eun Park more than O’Neill. They’re both technically good. Haven’t seen a lot of acting from either of them yet though which makes judging them hard. 

Do most balletomanes (perhaps the older ones?) think it's perfectly okay to critique a dancer based on their body? Saw a video comparing Osipova, Zakharova, and Núñez as Nikiya and some comments say "she is too old" or "she needs to lose weight"...

It’s probably an age, gendered, and cultural difference. I can’t speak for everyone but I don’t comment on weight. 

I think commenting on age is different than commenting on weight. For example, it is usually inappropriate for a 40 year old to dance something like Juliet, or for an 18 year old to dance, say, Diamonds. But that’s about maturity rather than appearance. 

Victor Caxieta gives me bad vibes all around, I had to unfollow him on instagram because he just seems so annoying and kind of mean.

I haven’t noticed that myself, but to be fair if a post isn’t about ballet than I usually just scroll past. What do you think is mean? 

I'm so glad to find someone else who doesn't like Maria Khoreva's style. I find she looks so strained. I don't get the hype! I do like her workout videos on youtube, though. Also don't get the hype over Xander Parish. I think he always looks a bit anxious/apprehensive on stage. (But I do like his film photography!)

I haven’t tried her workout videos. I tried to do some of her ballet exercise videos but found it a bit complicated for an amateur at home. I agree about Parish. 

(unpopular?) ballet opinion nobody asked for: I think May Nagahisa could become great if she was a bit better at emoting/expressing. She's so light and energetic, I'm always blown away with how easy she makes dancing look. Almost too easy, like she's bored/just running through the motions. I want her to FEEL the music more because I think she has great potential.

Yes I totally agree. Technique-wise she is gorgeous. But she looks like a student performing at an exam rather than someone feeling emotions onstage. I think if she matures and listens and feels with dancing she could be really great. 

do you have thoughts on david yudes?

He’s never really stood out to me while watching him, which I think might signal his future at the company. There is SO MUCH upcoming male talent right now at the Royal that there’s no room NOT to stand out.