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Post by crabtree on May 31, 2017 19:24:12 GMT
Time was when the Royal Exchange announced a period play, the stage would be awash with the most lavish and detailed costumes and furniture - those days are long long gone, and probably rightly so, as of course theatrical styles have to evolve, as do economics, and we now embrace pure theatricality like the brilliant, coherent, raw and supremely intelligent and well thought through productions of Ivo von H, but I just can't help feeling that the Exchange are deliberately perverse and contrary for the sake of it.....regretfully this is not so much a house style but screamingly predictable. Of course there would not be bonnets. Welcome to an innovative but crazy Persuasion. Gimmicks are not necessarily the same as theatricality.
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Post by nash16 on May 31, 2017 22:26:33 GMT
It is directed by Ivo van Hove's assistant director, so I fear was always going to be very much in his style.
Can you elaborate on the production for us? Good acting? What were the gimmicks?
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Post by crabtree on Jun 1, 2017 7:49:28 GMT
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Post by nash16 on Jun 1, 2017 10:59:03 GMT
Ivo van Hove uses fluids in his productions. His assistant has opted for foam. Where has original thought gone with directors? Everything seems copied by these supposed avant garde youths. |
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Post by hal9000 on Jun 1, 2017 14:47:47 GMT
Are they performing inside of the Tardis?
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Post by crabtree on Jun 3, 2017 10:06:40 GMT
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Post by crabtree on Jun 10, 2017 13:43:26 GMT
Having been a little critical of the recent dogged predictability of the Royal Exchange to be different, for the sake of it, I was at my local pool last night and found myself defending their right to be different after I got in conversation with a gent who had not been to the exchange since their 'concentration camp Macbeth (which, true, was one of the most misconceived pieces of theatre ever)and all those plays about gays' - I guess he meant Edward II and some of the brad fraser brilliant plays. my hackles rose. It's not the daring to be different that bothers me, it the fact that every play is now given a predictable gimmicky make-over.
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Post by meso77 on Jun 10, 2017 15:27:11 GMT
It's not the daring to be different that bothers me, it the fact that every play is now given a predictable gimmicky make-over. Really? I've been to the Royal Exchange about 60 times over the last six years and can't think of many that had a gimmicky make-over. What was the gimmicky make over in Breaking the Code? Husbands and Sons? Wit? Sweet Charity? King Lear? All pretty standard revivals from the last year or so. |
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