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Post by peggs on Sept 24, 2018 17:08:52 GMT
^Oh dammit, peggs. One day, hopefully. Hope you've dried out by now. Sad to see one person had to be helped out, as well. If you'd only wear the monkey costume you'd be much easier to spot 😁 Assumed someone was ill from the noise, they were late letting groundlings in as they had an ambulance in for someone in the theatre. |
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Post by peggs on Sept 25, 2018 19:09:21 GMT
If you'd only wear the monkey costume you'd be much easier to spot But I always do! How do you think other board members have spotted me? they were late letting groundlings in Ah, I did wonder why it started at 2.15pm rather than 2pm. Late letting us all in of course - didn't open the gates until nearly 2pm. I must have a blind spot then! Though there was a bit of front of stage argy bargy going on with the groundlings so I was rather occupied holding my space and didn't do a wildlife scan. I thought this was fine but nothing special although Nicholas superlative review has given me some food for thought which would improve my view I think. Iago was thankfully not as comedy as i'd feared, I rather like Nicholas' suggestion on why this Iago uses humour as a defence. I wasn't convinced by Othello as a soldier or an authority figure but I liked his quiet emotional collapse at what he thought was going on. Cassio seemed must more soldier like whereas i'm not really sure what the thinking behind the costume choices for Rodrigo were. William Chubb seemed to having fun sporting different facial hair. Desdemona yes quite liked her but Emilia seemed to have lost half her lines at least in the first half, she barely had anything to do and I thought the character rather diminished and a waste of Sheila Atim's talents. I wonder if I saw it again thinking about some of Nicholas' theories i'd see bits i'd missed and it would work better, probably. But it's saying something when I realised lines are missed as i'm really not that hot on speeches and seemed bit light as a result of that. Mark Rylance said hello to us mad few there in the rain queuing as it turned out unnecessarily early, he wins an extra star for that. |
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Post by sfsusan on Oct 8, 2018 22:46:37 GMT
Has Mark Rylance always made a big production of wiping his brow and blowing his nose in this part? I couldn't tell if it was something to do with his character or if he's got a cold. And there was a modern plastic water bottle on the stage behind the right rear pillar throughout the second part.
I'd forgotten Andre Holland is American, until a Southern "da-yam" popped out. Although I had a hard time hearing him throughout the play, as did the woman next to me.
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Post by kathryn on Oct 9, 2018 10:21:57 GMT
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Post by peggs on Oct 9, 2018 19:18:35 GMT
Oh thanks for that kathryn, i'd noticed that hanky and all the forehead dabbing but hadn't thought much more about it. |
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Post by sfsusan on Oct 9, 2018 21:21:07 GMT
Very interesting! Thank you for that. |
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