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Post by crabtree on Apr 2, 2016 23:13:16 GMT
Just back from the ever reliable West Yorkshire Playhouse and their last night of Great Expectations; a moving evening of dark, elegant theatrical invention - a great adaptation, told with a suitably bleak and textural visual language. It was all there, complete with Jane Asher's Miss Haversham going up in real flames, and the non traditional darker ending, with Pip left alone. Some great performances, with a few gay undertones, and much violence, leaving me utterly moved by the end. And that set provided striking visual and after striking visual.
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Post by d'James on Apr 2, 2016 23:14:37 GMT
Was it anything to do with the production at the Vaudeville in London a couple of years ago.
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Post by crabtree on Apr 2, 2016 23:44:18 GMT
No, a brand new production just for the Playhouse. The Vaudeville was all set in one room with characters emerging from various dark places. This has a bleak, sweeping curve of wooden boards, that swept up in a wave, and as it spun it contained various suggestions of room spaces. It also suggested the side of the hulk. Very clever, and beautifully lit, and whilst the flames that consumed Miss Haversham weren't huge they were real and set the whole table afire. Some wonderful theatrical and young Pip and Estella particularly good, and Pockets' speech about how to behave in London truly showstopping. The WYP does produce some epic shows.....such an exciting space.
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Post by d'James on Apr 3, 2016 0:01:58 GMT
Interesting. I really enjoyed the Vaudeville production. Yorkshire's a bit far for me though.
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