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Post by Jan on Jan 31, 2016 13:49:46 GMT
Anyone seeing it ? Doesn't come around that often, think I'll go.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2016 17:49:06 GMT
Thanks for pointing this out, hadn't spotted it
Never seen the play - does the 80 minute running time they claim imply its heavily cut?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jan 31, 2016 23:08:56 GMT
Oh yes - that is very much a speed version
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Post by Jan on Feb 1, 2016 11:35:47 GMT
Oh yes - that is very much a speed version 80 minutes without an interval implies at least 1 hr cut. I saw the 1982 NT production, good fun. |
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Post by joem on Feb 4, 2016 17:55:34 GMT
So Hieronimo's mad agayne? Last saw this in Stratford. It is one of the best non-Shakespeare Elizabethan plays. The timing would suggest a VERY severe cutting exercise!
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Post by Jan on Feb 5, 2016 7:07:06 GMT
That 82 production was wonderful indeed, Jan Brock. Memorable as one of the first "classic" plays I ever saw, also the fact a stalls ticket was just £3... and of course a guy got strung up, upside down, tongue removed, centre stage at the end. They really cracked down on talkers in those days. Michael Bryant bit his own tongue out and spat it on the stage. Also the blood from the daggers was spurting out over half the width of the stage, the audience loved it. Michael Bogdanov directing. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2016 15:00:26 GMT
Seeing this now and I appear to be one of seven people in the audience. So awkward...
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Post by Jan on Feb 13, 2016 15:17:32 GMT
Seeing this now and I appear to be one of seven people in the audience. So awkward... Oh no ! Let me know if it's any good and I'll go later in the week. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2016 9:06:21 GMT
It was actually six people in the audience and six in the cast - one apparent audience member got up and started acting...
Well. I've never seen this before and I still don't really feel I've seen anything but a synopsis. It lost most of the emotion and passion, and while implied gore can sometimes be worse than going overboard with buckets of blood, this never got it across. Sweet young cast doing their best, but literally and figuratively bloodless, I thought.
I'd spent the preceding two hours in a corner of the pub practising a presentation I've got to give on Mon and panicking, so my mind may not have been in the right place. But equally the production didn't do anything to divert my attention.
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Post by Jan on Feb 14, 2016 13:51:43 GMT
It was actually six people in the audience and six in the cast - one apparent audience member got up and started acting... Well. I've never seen this before and I still don't really feel I've seen anything but a synopsis. It lost most of the emotion and passion, and while implied gore can sometimes be worse than going overboard with buckets of blood, this never got it across. Sweet young cast doing their best, but literally and figuratively bloodless, I thought. I'd spent the preceding two hours in a corner of the pub practising a presentation I've got to give on Mon and panicking, so my mind may not have been in the right place. But equally the production didn't do anything to divert my attention. Good enough. I've booked a ticket. I've got low standards. Raw meat hanging on stage I believe ? Rare but not unique. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2016 14:54:53 GMT
No, no raw meat. Blue paint for some reason...
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Post by Jan on Feb 14, 2016 19:11:23 GMT
No, no raw meat. Blue paint for some reason... Ah, I misread the review, meat hooks with no meat, unlike the poster. Budget wouldn't stretch to it I suppose. |
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