Slings & Arrows: The Complete Collection
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Actor: Don McKellar, Mark McKinney, Martha Burns, Paul GrossDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 840 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
DVD Reviews of Slings & Arrows: The Complete Collection
DVD Review: Shakespeare satire
Summary: 5 Stars
The Slings and Arrows crew have created a witty and clever satire of a major North American Shakespeare Festival. (You know who you are!) Anyone who has a fondness for Shakespeare will find this to be hilarious, moving, and brilliantly acted. It is a MUST SEE for all 'Shakespeareans!' DVD Review: One of the best television shows I've ever seen
Summary: 5 Stars
For theater lovers and especially Shakespeare lovers, this series is an absolute must - and even if you're not, you either will be by the end, or will have a much more empathetic view of those of us who can't help but be those. FUNNY, heartbreaking, weird, unique, terribly well-written and full of wonderful layers, it's one of the smartest shows I've ever seen, with a wonderfully appealing and UNIQUE cast - utterly refreshing to have our intelligence piqued as opposed to dulled. If television ever were the food of love, this is it - and the only crime is that it couldn't play on past season 3.DVD Review: O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful... (from Shakespeare's As You Like It, 3/2)
We were quickly hooked on this series, and drawn into the lives of the characters. Cleverly written, again and again. This will appeal to a much wider audience than just theatre buffs. The acting seemed so natural - they could even do awkwardness well. Loved it!
The use of profane language was the only put-off (I suppose it made the show more realistic, but was it really necessary? The English language is so rich, why resort to swearing?), but the rest of the show was so thoroughly enjoyable, we put up with it. Haven't seen anything of this calibre on television for a very long time.
Highly recommend it.
DVD Review: comedy, theater, and anoying dead people
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a long time fan of Paul Gross, so really, I was overjoyed when I found this. If it had been good or not, i still would have liked it. But by the end of the first season, it was clear to me that this was more than just a Paul Gross movie. This was brilliance.
Paul Gross plays the part of an eccentric theater director- who happens to be stark raving mad. Or, really, is he? Most of the accusation of madness is caused by a stray jump into a prop grave in the middle of his own production of Hamlet, trying to choke a swan with his bare hands, and regularly talking with his dead mentor. The script is brilliant; combining comedy with real-life issues. Odd dreams, odd conclusions, awkward conversations, it all adds up to laugh out loud entertainment. All of this, within the setting of a drama ridden theater.
DVD Review: The best show-business story since "All About Eve."
Summary: 5 Stars
Of the fifty-four previous reviews for "Slings and Arrows" on this Web site, forty-nine gave the show five stars, and the remaining five four stars. That in itself tells you the magic spell woven by this fresh, surprising, hilarious, insightful and touching program. From the time Oliver Welles (Stephen Ouimette), artistic director of the New Burbage Shakespeare Festival, gets run over by a truck labeled "Canada's Best Hams," and then comes back as a ghost to haunt his already mentally unstable successor Geoffrey Tennant (Paul Gross), you know you are in for a wild, bawdy treat, as the program presents in agonizing and delightful detail the insecurities of the actor's life.
Spread over three six-episode seasons, "Slings and Arrows" shows Geoffrey and his troupe of actors as they endeavor to stage three different Shakespeare plays--"Hamlet" first, then "Macbeth," and finally "King Lear." In each season the plot of the show mirrors wittily the story of the play, as the wildly varied characters collide (often violently) with each other. The actors--all of them veterans of the Stratford Festival and other Canadian theater companies--are absolutely first-rate, as are the scripts by Bob Martin, Susan Coyne and Mark McKinney (the latter two also regulars on the show).
What I like best about "Slings and Arrows" is that, more than any other program I've seen, it portrays the unique Canadian sensibility. Other shows such as "SCTV" and McKinney's previous show "Kids in the Hall" have captured it to some extent, but not as completely as "Slings and Arrows." Canadian-ness is hard to define--it's kind of a cross between British politeness, American forthrightness, French clarity and a certain quizzical je ne sais quoi that no other country can boast. All I know is that "Slings and Arrows" is the best show-business story since "All About Eve," and watching it will have you singing "O Canada" at the top of your lungs.
Description of Slings & Arrows: The Complete Collection
As seen on the Sundance Channel"Deliciously written" -TV GUIDE
"Big and powerful, a corker" -LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Charming and complex and lovely" -THE NEW YORK TIMES
Showered with awards and critical acclaim, this darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and electrifying thrills that happen behind the scenes.
Paul Gross (Due South) stars as Geoffrey Tennant, the passionate but unstable artistic director of the New Burbage Theatre Festival. Haunted by the ghost of his predecessor (Stephen Ouimette), he struggles to realize his creative vision while handling touchy actors, a jittery general manager (Mark McKinney), a pretentious guest director (Don McKellar) and his own tempestuous romance with the festival's leading lady (Martha Burns). The backstage bedlam mirrors the onstage angst as Geoffrey directs three of Shakespeare's masterpieces -- Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear -- one in each season. Guest stars include Rachel McAdams (Wedding Crashers), Colm Feore (Chicago), Sarah Polley (Go, The Sweet Hereafter), and renowned Stratford Festival actor William Hutt in one of his last performances.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE cast interviews, bloopers, deleted and extended scenes, photo galleries, production notes, trailers and song lyrics. Plus exclusive bonus disc: "A Look Behind the Scenes" featurette, more cast and crew interviews, and on-set footage.
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