Left to right: Ashara Dayne, Princess Elia Martell, Queen Rhaella Targaryen, Lord Robert Baratheon, King Aerys II Targaryen, Lyanna Stark, Brandon Stark, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, and Eddard Stark.
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Lyanna's casting is spot on, she's got that exact wild northern look
Shes got that dude look like she was described in the books
Wow! This looks awful!
😳🥴😂🤣😂😆
Anddd here we go again
This can’t be serious.
Seriously though - this is a joke, right? The costumes and wigs are horrendous. It looks like snl spoofing game of thrones, badly.
Love how diverse the casting is!
Yeah I'm classing this as badly written fan fiction, like The Watch was to the Discworld. Not Cannon
As with every other piece of ASOIAF media the books are a separate canon from everything else.
Dorne of have 3 different ethnicities in the llre ..... This stage play just said "fuck accuracy let's just made them all black"
And politically stupid, and of course gay too. All the clichés put together.
Plays (while not always) tend the be cast fairly colour blind, and you’re usually expected to suspend your disbelief
Theatre has always been fairly colorblind. A black person can play a white person and vice versa in theatre. Well, maybe not anymore.
It’s a play.
Wait I had no idea they were doing a stage play for the Tourney at Harrenhal, that timeframe is honestly prime ASOIAF drama. Robert and Rhaegar in the same room before everything went to hell is crazy to think about
I thought that was Will Farrel!
Same! If t had been a comedy with Farel I'd actually watch it
Aerys hair looks amazing... Isn't it supposed to be dirty, unkempt, tangled and just generally gross. Man looks like my uncle Sven, stern but stylish
Aerys is also supposed to have incredibly long fingernails because he‘s too paranoid to let anyone with scissors near him.
Yeah, a war was started for this version of Lyanna…
Have you ever been to a play? It’s not about how the actors look. They act
I mean war was started because mad king killed ned stark father and brother
At some point you have to realize this is getting ridiculous
Hey Chud cool it with the racism and stuff /s
Theater has always given less of a fuck about racially accurate casting than film and tv - this embarrassing comment of yours indicates an inherent unfamiliarity with the form
An absolutely amazing show, no issue with the cast as everyone is fantastic. The scale of it, the performances, it's all first class and everything that drew me into westeros 20 years ago Sad that people have to be so negative off the back of a few bulletpoints.
... I think a lot of people being so negative (without having literally seen it) about this haven't seen theatre in a very long time
I never thought we’d actually get a stage adaptation of this story
I didn’t doubt it, it’s pretentious enough to feel right to them they’re gonna milk this IP for every thing they can
Rofl at this castings...
Wow…not great
I've seen Game of Thrones porn with better casting and costumes
https://preview.redd.it/5sm74rd0xsgh1.jpeg?width=441&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53120cb939f975a5590dcb7a1beb9d079f5b8a9c
Theater kids evoking to theater adults.
I’m pretty sure Arthur Dayne isn’t African
The costumes are pretty disappointing.
Uh oh
No one told me they’d cast Jeff Bridges as Aerys!
Reminder that theater costumes are usually deliberately over the top so that everyone can see them
You think any one here has ever been to a actual play kr stage performance?
I enjoy the theatre but some of this looks like Bad drag
No one is this comment section has been to a play. Theyre just want to complain about a stage play not having HBO level costumes and that the cast isn't 100% white
Arya is definitely somewhere in the crowd waiting to poison one of the lead actresses.
Is this at like some local community theater or something?
Looks like a low budget play in Braavos by wandering performers.
It looks like crap ngl
We wuz starks
Some people here never been to a play and it shows.. in plays you aren’t casted for how much you physically look like a character, it’s about how good you can act as the character.
Dude stop it.... Even the costume look horrible.. I've seen fanmade outfit way better than this
This shit looks like Bridgerton, what an absolute disgrace
Is this a fucking joke, what subreddit am I on
PoC here. This is ridiculous. I was confused for a few minutes there because I could swear Ashara Dayne looked very different in my head.
I’m a theatre actor I’ve worn hundreds of costumes in my time on the stage for the RSC which is the pinnacle of British theatre and troupe of actors, these are fucking awful costumes
Yikes
Most of you are acting like you’re from the critical drinker sub. It’s shameful
ned stark was black, all who deny it are traitors indeed.
Uncultured swine convention in these comments (myself excluded)
bruh
I don't understand the c aption. are they treating the group as one straight line? if it was typical left to right the third name would be a guy's name
ashara dayne represented by afro, elia martell by blonde hippie. good job guys.
Theyre going full Hamilton rules.
Genuinely couldn't tell who any of these are apart from Rhaella, Aerys and Rhaegar.
Hunger Games looking ahh
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GoT fans not understanding that stage plays costuming and casting is completely different from a TV show is very unsurprising.
What happened to the black people when GOT rolled around? In Westeros at least.
I uhhhh expected more from a British Theater production…