{"id":29292,"date":"2024-12-29T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T09:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/sigourney-weavers-prospero-may-finally-set-us-free-of-this-celebrity-shakespeare-indulgence-kate-maltby\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T09:07:06","slug":"sigourney-weavers-prospero-may-finally-set-us-free-of-this-celebrity-shakespeare-indulgence-kate-maltby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/sigourney-weavers-prospero-may-finally-set-us-free-of-this-celebrity-shakespeare-indulgence-kate-maltby\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver\u2019s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence | Kate Maltby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Film star\u2019s floundering performance in The Tempest exposes flaw in theatreland\u2019s reliance on big names<\/p>\n<p>In 1986, Sigourney Weaver completed her second <em>Alien <\/em>movie and returned to New York\u2019s off-Broadway scene to prove she could do Shakespeare. For <em>Aliens, <\/em>she received an Academy Award nomination.<\/p>\n<p>For Shakespeare\u2019s <em>The Merchant of Venice, <\/em>she received this review from the<em> New York Times<\/em>: \u201c<em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em> marks the local Shakespearean debut, in the role of Portia, of Sigourney Weaver and, in all candidness, this is not Ms Weaver\u2019s finest three and one-quarter hours\u2026 Together, the director and star seem disoriented by Shakespeare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/29\/sigourney-weaver-prospero-celebrity-shakespeare-indulgence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film star\u2019s floundering performance in The Tempest exposes flaw in theatreland\u2019s reliance on big names In 1986, Sigourney Weaver completed her second Alien movie and returned to New York\u2019s off-Broadway scene to prove she could do Shakespeare. For Aliens, she received an Academy Award nomination. For Shakespeare\u2019s The Merchant of Venice, she received this review &#8230; <a title=\"Sigourney Weaver\u2019s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence | Kate Maltby\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/sigourney-weavers-prospero-may-finally-set-us-free-of-this-celebrity-shakespeare-indulgence-kate-maltby\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sigourney Weaver\u2019s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence | Kate Maltby\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}