# Which Shakespeare plays have you seen on the stage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589 "2011-03-05T16:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bordesley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Bordesley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bordesley)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589/61 "2011-09-07T21:53:57Z")
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Old Rep Birmingham and Othello at the New Rep. The Merchant of Venice at Lord Lichfield’s pile at Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire. Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford on Avon and As You Like It, in the pit at the Globe in London. Macbeth too, but I can’t recall where forsooth. ---
**Author:** ![Bordesley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Bordesley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bordesley)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589/62 "2011-09-07T21:55:41Z")
Just remembered, Romeo and Juliet. “Wherefore art thou? I forgot thou!” ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589/63 "2011-09-07T22:45:11Z")
I’m surprised at how few I’ve seen (though there’s been a couple of \*Macbeths \*and I helpd a friend rehearse _Measure for Measure_ & got to know it very well.) Our local college does Shakespeare evenings where students produce different scenes from plays, so I’ve seen bits of many. ---
**Author:** ![Post\_Miss\_Post](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Post\_Miss\_Post](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Post_Miss_Post)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589/64 "2011-09-08T07:43:17Z")
I ticked all of the history plays, although I didn’t see them individually. I saw The War of the Roses (Parts 1 & 2) at Sydney Theatre Company, which was an 8hr (12hrs with intervals) adaption of Richard II, Henry VI, Henry V, Henry VI, and Richard III. Cate Blanchett played Richard II and Pamela Rabe Richard III. Both were amazing. I’m not surprised that Midsummer is ahead. It was the first I saw on stage as a child. ---
**Author:** ![Post\_Miss\_Post](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Post\_Miss\_Post](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Post_Miss_Post)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589/65 "2011-09-08T07:55:39Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Not one. A friend tried to talk me into going with him to the [Bell Shakespeare](http://www.bellshakespeare.com.au/) presentation of King Lear last year. > > I was happy that I knocked back the offer because after the event he revealed that, he so hated the production, he heckled it while it was on. He wrote to John Bell to explain his disgust but never received a reply. Ooh, I completely forgot that I’d seen Romeo and Juliette by Bell Shakespeare. Perhaps I’d (almost) successfully erased the memory. It was so terribly, terribly bad. I only went because I knew a cast member. I should have known better. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589/66 "2011-09-08T09:24:33Z")
I saw the opera version of Romeo and Juliet on a high school field trip. I guess that counts for half? ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589/67 "2011-09-08T09:44:53Z")
I’ve seen Hamlet and King Lear. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589/68 "2011-09-08T12:40:31Z")
I used to perform speeches from Shakespeare at drama festivals, so in addition to the ones I’ve seen I’ve performed bits of Henry IV Part 1, Julius Caesar and The Tempest. I’ve never seen a production I haven’t been a part of - I’m not counting the abridged versions from school. ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589/69 "2011-09-08T20:01:30Z")
All of them. Details here: [http://www.planetslade.com/archive/shakespeare.pdf](http://www.planetslade.com/archive/shakespeare.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589/70 "2011-09-11T11:36:39Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > One memorable performance includes Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Dalton in Taming of the Shrew, and Richard Harris in Richard III. Which I’ve just realised I forgot to vote for. Vanessa Redgrave almost stepped on my hand when she played Prospero in _The Tempest_ at the Globe on the South Bank (I was on the edge of the stage) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shakespeare-plays-have-you-seen-on-the-stage/573589.md?page=3)