These are wonderful! (Though I liked about the regie trailers that they showed parts of several scenes :) ) I'm surprised how hard it is to find any production of this! I will keep looking as well.
I see what you're saying about Posa, hmm! I agree that there is room for him to have some sympathy for Philip -- however, Schiller's Posa does strike me as a zealot, almost fanatical not only in what he loves but also in how he goes about obtaining his ends, and relatedly he seems extremely terrible at seeing other viewpoints, which is (it seems to me) part of why it doesn't even occur to him that Carlos might, oh, have some problems with this "I'm going to show not-quite-all your letters to the King but not tell you about it" strategy. (Same for going off and happily sowing treason right after his big speech to Philip.) So I have trouble with the idea that Posa could have enough empathy to really realize how Philip feels about him and to connect to that on a personal level, and in addition that he would be flexible enough to realize that his plan to sacrifice himself might fail... but on the other hand, Posa does have to confront all of his tragic flaws when he sees everything falling apart, and realizes that he's been wrong (and he is really good about taking full responsibility for that), and there, maybe, is where he could also start thinking about some of the rest of this. Hmm.
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Date: 2018-07-06 03:27 am (UTC)I see what you're saying about Posa, hmm! I agree that there is room for him to have some sympathy for Philip -- however, Schiller's Posa does strike me as a zealot, almost fanatical not only in what he loves but also in how he goes about obtaining his ends, and relatedly he seems extremely terrible at seeing other viewpoints, which is (it seems to me) part of why it doesn't even occur to him that Carlos might, oh, have some problems with this "I'm going to show not-quite-all your letters to the King but not tell you about it" strategy. (Same for going off and happily sowing treason right after his big speech to Philip.) So I have trouble with the idea that Posa could have enough empathy to really realize how Philip feels about him and to connect to that on a personal level, and in addition that he would be flexible enough to realize that his plan to sacrifice himself might fail... but on the other hand, Posa does have to confront all of his tragic flaws when he sees everything falling apart, and realizes that he's been wrong (and he is really good about taking full responsibility for that), and there, maybe, is where he could also start thinking about some of the rest of this. Hmm.