To be honest, I had the opposite problem. Dialogue with no captions or directions or context? How am I supposed to guess how the characters feel?
And, honestly, moden actors take playing Shakespeare so damn seriously, they could be saying “ba ba ba ba” and still sound emotionally three-dimensional and intense and layered and stuff. I keep finding that the text often doesn’t measure up to the skill invested in portraying it.
To be honest, I had the opposite problem. Dialogue with no captions or directions or context? How am I supposed to guess how the characters feel?
And, honestly, moden actors take playing Shakespeare so damn seriously, they could be saying “ba ba ba ba” and still sound emotionally three-dimensional and intense and layered and stuff. I keep finding that the text often doesn’t measure up to the skill invested in portraying it.