He did a wicked Puck a few years ago. (And I use the term advisedly: he definitely had the giggling menace of a barely-controlled natural force. “That merry danger to life and limb” sort of thing.)
The main stage area in this performance was so that the stage was between the audience and the lake. Puck's final soliloquy was delivered on the move: he started flown above the island, then dropped and he started walking towards the audience... over the water. (I think a walkway just under the surface) then up and into the middle of the audience, and when he delivered the final word “Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.” — *blink* out went the spot, and every other light beside, and he vanished.
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Date: 2009-02-16 06:12 am (UTC)The main stage area in this performance was so that the stage was between the audience and the lake. Puck's final soliloquy was delivered on the move: he started flown above the island, then dropped and he started walking towards the audience... over the water. (I think a walkway just under the surface) then up and into the middle of the audience, and when he delivered the final word “Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.” — *blink* out went the spot, and every other light beside, and he vanished.
At least, that's how I remember it.
They know how to stage Shakespeare, they do.