RIII
I met William Hurt will acting on the Montreal film production of Varian’s War. We chatted, he expressee an interest in doing some stage work. I convinced him RIII was a part he should tackle. Here are a few of the polaroids Maryse Bienvenu’s took in Montreal in preparation for the designs. Then see the incredible designs she came up with.
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Pre-rehearsal session with William and Maryse. We took a cast of his head and shoulders. Concept was to add a deformed skull and right sholder as part of his deformed being. He agreed to the idea in principle but then, like most star actors, did not want to disguise his face, but went with the extended leg and bad “wing” you see in the production photos.
Maryse Bienvenu’s Costume designs
We saw Hastings as a Winston Churchill look-alike.
A power woman coping in a man’s world
Margaret, the Francophone outsider in this world, played with ferocious anger by Marthe Turgeon.
The Scrivner character. He is william Shakespeare himself talking to us, so his costume was anachronistically Elizabethan.
Richmond…. he talks in the accent and language of Bush jr.
William (don’t call me “Bill” Hurt. His twisted energy infected the whole cast and forced them to reply on stage with equal intensity.
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Radio Review
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Richard III shine with stellar performances
The more perilous the times, the more urgently topical seems William Shakespeare’s Richard III
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War, discontent and depravity
The first 40 lines of Richard III, in which Richard, Dure of Gloucester, outlines the reasons for his discontent, are among the finest Shakespeare ever wrote.
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Highlights - Infinitheatre
Guy Sprung directed eight Montréal actors in a production artistically conceived by Infinitheatre and produced by the Manitoba Theatre Centre
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Hurt feels the pain of Bard's hunchback king
ROBERT ENRIGHT - GLOBE AND MAIL
PUBLISHED APRIL 17, 2003
