We really don't care about theatre do we?

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― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

I used to do theatre, as a teenager and in college. By "do" I mean I was part of a small theatre company, as an actor, writer, director, ass't director, production-type-person, lighting/sound person, propmaster, etc. And after college I worked in the business office of a ticket agency that specialized in New York theatre -- so I got to see a lot of Broadway and off-Broadway shows for free. My most recent exposure to that world was in 2001, when I was dating a critic who would let me be his plus-one whenever he had to review some piece-of-shit play.

But no, I really don't care about theatre. Not that much.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:13 (10 years ago) Permalink

I've seen two pieces of theatre in the last month.

Thus I am "sophisticated."

― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

I was hoping when Nory was here that there'd be a bit more dance stuff.

I don't see any theater at all, really. I've not even been able to keep up with film for the past few years, and at some point I gave up even trying; theater's unfortunately even a step below that in priorities.

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

There are two productions in NY right now that i want to see, The Blacks from the Harlem Theater Company and Fucking A on Broadway, you know the reworking of

edmonton theater is really vivid and i try to see one a month, but it is prohibtivley expensive.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

(Yeah, Nabisco, what happened to Nory? I liked her. Can you lure her back, please?)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:43 (10 years ago) Permalink

(Seconded.)

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 19:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

Nory is megafanfab! And a grand person. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 April 2003 19:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

The whole "realism" thing is still being worked out. I think film overtook theater in this dept sometime around the New Wave and theater's still going through spasms trying to deal with it. I don't really go that much. We don't talk about theater here because we'd it's not mass-distributed so we don't have common events or artifacts to anchor a discussion. We'd all have to be like total theater-hounds to even talk abstractly about stuff, and one thing theater's not served by is abstraction.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 6 April 2003 19:55 (10 years ago) Permalink

The whole "what eyes are seeing this" thing is SO much smaller w/theater, its circulation is so curt-tailed. So it seems less "important", in a "must have opinion on this" kind of way?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

(Nory's currently doing the jobs of about two and a half people, so she doesn't really have the time.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

We don't talk about theater here because we'd it's not mass-distributed

Quite so. This is the strength and the weakness of theater.

― Skottie, Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

Can you get her fired from one of them, Nabisco?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

Hey, that's mean! But if it would give her a little more time with no salary decrease...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

If someone could explain to me why theatre/er still has a point, I might get interested in it. I don't think it's the same as the paintings/drawings/etchings/whatever vs. Photos thing at all (because you can DO so much more with the former set than the latter whereas it seems like you can do less with plays than with film but I still feel really small-minded saying that but i think it's only because High Culture is still into plays and we've still got that thing where we think that They Know What They're Talking About despite the fact that every play review I read reads like it's completely made up of really weak excuses for a pathetic, unentertaining experience).

― Dan I., Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

In NYC, Richard Foreman and the Wooster Group. They (forgive me) rock. And they've both been essentially doing the same thing for decades. But not only does that thing (those things) give unending returns (I think), it also seems as though nobody else has managed to do anything weirder or more interesting or dizzying or disorienting. Your standard theater just guarantees me ninety minutes of sound sleep. But things are different in Lodon, I think. Yes?

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

Er, that would be "London."

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:30 (10 years ago) Permalink

I just saw the Wooster Group's "Brace Up!," their adaptation of Chekhov's "Three Sisters," and it was absolutely fantastic. Only running for another week--GO SEE IT!

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 7 April 2003 00:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

The only good theater I've ever seen has been plays directed by Tadashi Suzuki. I'm sure there's more stuff out there just as good, but I haven't seen any yet.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 7 April 2003 00:55 (10 years ago) Permalink

" it seems like you can do less with plays than with film"

What about the differences between watching a concert video or being at a concert. The is more excitment and energy live, it is happening 'now', and there is no setbacks of use of media when seeing it live.

I think potentially theater could be one of the most amazing artforms, but I've never seen anyone do much good with it.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 7 April 2003 00:59 (10 years ago) Permalink

Somebody needs to invent mass-distributable theater so we can talk about it!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 April 2003 05:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

i work at the Guthrie Theater here in Minneapolice (ush-urr-ing), but i don't see much theatre outside the place.
just the same play over and over for a month---which is fine when i like the play---and i'm learning a lot about this mysterious art...but:
Six Degrees of Separation was shrill and the jokes were all flat. it WAS kind of amusing to watch our stodgy patrons reel back in shock and horror when the naked hustler showed up, and see them fidgeting nervously during the long silent boy-boy kissing scene, but christ i'm glad its not 1991 or whenever this was considered 'edgy' and deep.

tonight was closing night thoughYAY.
and next up is -Chekhovs's Three Sisters-. i am very excited.

and Top Girls at the Guthrie Lab- no idea.

anyway the Guthrie is nice and usually lush and well-produced an stuff, and i get starry thinking about upcoming Shakespeare but it is warping my young mind by relentlessly beating on about the CLASSICS. etc. i really need to find myself a wealthy sugar-momma to take out to other theaters.

ok i got my tightpants on- i'm off to lurk 'mysteriously' outside high-priced Edina hairsalons.

― gabriel (gabe), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

We recently TRIED very hard to sit through the first part of "A La Recherche du temps perdu.' Sadly the heating was on FOOL BLAST, the seats were too 'ard to sit comfortably watching the show and... the show itself was a-trocious. Trying not falling asleep when the main character puts his head between curtains and his face is screened on those curtains while he is reading off an auto-cue. On top of that the book/play itself is loooooooooooooong.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 7 April 2003 12:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

Aha, you've been there too. Marcel Proust on Tour.

― Erik, Monday, 7 April 2003 12:30 (10 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

'theater-hounds': Hand is such a card.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

I haven't been to the theatre in ages, mainly because the companies and writers I've been following have done dick all lately.

good theatre is great. people who think theatre is obsolete know nothing.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 25 April 2003 11:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

however, theatre only really works in venues seating less than a few hundred people.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 25 April 2003 11:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

I haven't been to the theatre in ages mainly because the sort of theatre i like no longer comes to Glasgow. Ten years or so ago Mainly because of the Tramway) it was possible to come to Glasgow to see The Wooster group perfmoring almost their entire ouvre (the only place in Europe you could see it) of which i have seen Brace Up!, LSD (just the highlights) and House/Lights. Their new one "Poor Theatre" is just about to kick of in New York - i'd love to see it and am extremely jealous of you new yorkers.

In addition Lepage/ Ex Machina were frequent visitors to Glasgow and i think i have seen most oof his plays here. Theatre de Complicite don't come here anymore either. I miss stuff like this.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 24 October 2004 17:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

what about DANCE?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 October 2004 17:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

I meant to go to the tramway, this weekend, but forgot.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 October 2004 17:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

are you dancing tonight?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

I would like to but I have stupid things, to be up for.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

Dan sums up my own feelings well upthread. Theatre is irrelvant and invariably dull. Upper class and upper middle class goons go to it to feel special and sophisticated. I've met these people and they are assholess so why should I want to be in their company anyway?

― Mad.Mike, Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

well you're just in a theatre so you're not really in their company. The theatre i love most is not likt that at all in any case.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

The 'theater' is so far from being dead that it has become the dominant art form.

Of course, this is only true if you disregard the technical differences between onstage performance, film and television. As far as I am concerned the differences really are minor technicalities.

In all three media you have scripted dialogue telling a story with actors, costumes, scenery, lighting, incidental music, and so on.

The fact that a camera lens imposes a control over the audience's point-of-view that cannot be utilized in stage performances does not make much difference in my view. Stage direction tries to filter the audience's attention, too, except it uses lighting effects, blocking of actor's movements, and other technical means that are somewhat less effective than a camera. The goal is quite similar.

Theater people are just blinded by their nostalgic love of certain techniques that must be modified or discarded in a filmed setting as opposed to a stage setting. They identify these technicalities with 'theater', abhor the new technicalities of movies and tv, and overlook the overwhelming similarities between all the various forms of the modern theater.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

i completely disagree, movies and theatre are MILES apart (pictures telling stories vs. actors telling stories), or at least they are when they're good

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

tv and theatre, however, are definitely a bit closer.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

you're making like montage is just another nifty gadget in the film director's toolbox; really it is ESSENTIAL to film, much more so than lighting and blocking is to theatre

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

i don't theater and film need be, um, dichotomized so aggressively. they can fruitfully feed off each other. by its very nature film and theater pose different artistic challenges. many qualities grouped under the epithet "theatrical" don't really seem very essentially theatrical to me--just a legacy of the conventional wisdom that film only became film after it tossed off its debt to the theater (and "griffith invented cinema" etc.).

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

well maybe i'm being reactionary. but i do think tv and theatre have a lot more in common than movies & theatre.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

bla bla proscenium arch bla bla.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

as an art form practiced in the real world, though, theater really has become marginalized.... any by film, i think, more than anything else. (film basically economically/otherwise supplanted entire theatrical traditions in a period of 10-20 years.) there's an argument that film is more appropriate for certain modes of drama--melodrama for instance. because its indexical quality makes it a better vehicle for spectacle and "illusion"--i think this is by and large true.

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the spatial quality of film and theater are to a large extent opposed.... the camera's "field of vision" is like an upside-down triangle, whereas a conventional stage is a bit the opposite (why it's rare for a theater director to stage a signification action in the back of the stage--harder to ensure that the audience's attention is directed to it). so they pose very different staging problems. i don't quite buy aimless's argument that this means they are different only in the method by which an audience's attention is directed. i think there is a place for ontological speculation....

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

um, i mean, ROFFLE etc.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

i think with staging it's a completely completely different ballgame, unless we're talking rotating stages or something here

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

anyway i think it's obvious that there are possibilities to filmic narration that simply aren't available in the theater--and this has implications for what films can do, how they can engage an audience. what isn't often brought up is what possibilities are inherent in theater and unavailable in film, aside from the "immediacy" thing--and i have to admit i haven't considered that and other possible advantages of theater too much, simply because theater has never had much place in my life. i have really enjoyed some plays, though, of course.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

I LOVE CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

as well theatre is like 90% WHAT THE PEOPLE DO, whereas with film this is not neccessarily so

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

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slocki, it seems to me a hell of a lot of great films were made in the 1930s, and many of them were only a few baby steps away from being filmed stage productions with over-the-shoulder reaction shots and the occassional montage (thank you Sergei) to spice them up.

If montage is as ESSENTIAL as you say it is, then these films would have failed at birth, rather than becoming successful films - which, not coincidentally are still watched, enjoyed and studied today. Montage is just another nifty tool in a director's toolbox. It just happens to be such a useful tool that it gets used a lot.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

i think there is a nebulous actor-audience interaction in theatre that is cool and unique (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

ok aimless i agree that there quite often CAN be a significant overlap, but that it is not a neccessary one

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

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James 'fucking' Corden in One Man Two Guv'nors at The National Theatre. Yeah ok he was actually pretty good in this. Starts out like an 'ironic' revival of an awful 1960s sitcom, terrible jokes and all, interspersed with moments of 'hilarious' slapstick. Most of the audience seemed to think this actually was the funniest thing they'd seen in their lives, I was considerably more sceptical, but as the slapstick got thicker and the scenarios got more ridiculous it pretty much won me over. The story is so thin as to be nonexistent but most of the performances are top notch. There are a couple of audience interaction moments which beggar belief, and they try something interesting and different with the between-scene music numbers - fun when the cast are doing their turns, not so much when the house band are wearing out their welcome.

― ledge, Friday, 24 June 2011 10:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

I was at an amateur production of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead last night. Great fun.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 24 June 2011 12:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

13 at the National Theatre, a big ol' mess of bad philosophy, vague mysticism, fill-in-the-blanks zeitgeist, and pointlessly rehearsed old political arguments. I can't figure out what exactly what the message was, but the available options are either obviously stupid, stupidly insulting, or insultingly obvious.

― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Thursday, 27 October 2011 08:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Finally got on the Jerusalem bandwagon, fantastic. Amazing character and performance. Let down a little by my crappy restricted view seat. Wonder what A Farrell of this parish thought...

― ledge, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/jan/20/jacobean-tragedies-changeling-duchess-malfi

^sorta wanna see...

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 January 2012 12:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

we're bringing back a musical we did two years ago to the local Fr!nge Festival. last time, it sold out all but one performance, got great press, and won the venue, but we knew there were weaknesses with the script, so we tasked out to make rewrites.

I was not one of the script writers (of which there were two), but I was asked to consult last time. I made a lot of suggestions that got used, and didn't really bitch about the non-writer credit as I was overwhelmed by the positive experience and got swept up in the teamwork of it all (we all really helped finish writing it together).

This time, though...i'm starting to wonder why I'm not at least getting a "with additional material by" credit. The original music director, who really gave one minor contribution, got this credit.

I actually supplied 13 of the lines, and wrote the entire conceit for the ending, which is the one thing that was holding the show up. kinda feel like I should demand an "additional material by" credit. I don't want a regular writer's credit because the script is still overwhelmingly the two main writers', but I gave more than just a few throwaway jokes.

*sigh*. dunno if it's worth pursuing, not like I'm getting money out of it anyway.

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 29 January 2012 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

I would pursue it but if it looks like resulting in any kind of stress or bad feeling i'd probably advise you to forget about it.

― jed_, Sunday, 29 January 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

kinda what I'm thinking

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 29 January 2012 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'm more like a script doctor I guess anyway

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 29 January 2012 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

pretty much just a dude that says NOT FUNNY when the writers get out of hand

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 29 January 2012 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

a valuable service!

― jed_, Sunday, 29 January 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

Was at a cast party for a show my friends did last night. Usually fun, but man, sometimes actors can get so sensitive about press that they wind up being out of character offensive.

Take my close friend, D, for example. He's a compassionate, family man with two kids, who occasionally lapses into childish territory, but no more than any other emotionally stunted actor. He was very friendly and supportive a few years ago when quite a few notable local theatre personalities tragically passed away.

So it was quite uncomfortable and disturbing to me when he got on the topic of this awful show we did together last year (that he wrote). It was one of the worst things I've done, and quietly, many of us involved have admitted as such after the fact. Except him and a few others. We got a bad review in the press by one of the local critics, and he was stung by it at the time.

However, six months later, she tragically died in her sleep. Many people in our circle knew her and were devastated by it...and D knew this. For whatever reason, though, he still hasn't made peace with the review, and starts whining about this woman and her lack of credentials last night. Which would have been somewhat harmless if he wasn't doing it in front of one of the late critic's friends, who I could tell was trying to get him to pump the brakes, before reluctantly tuning him out for two minutes until he got on another topic.

o_O. Awk...ward. Actors who can't see their own faults and hate critics confuse the everliving shit out of me.

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 26 February 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

(the 'she' that died being the critic)

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 26 February 2012 16:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

Profile of Mike Nichols:
http://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/mike-nichols-2012-3/index2.html

He's using the original set and score for his Death of a Salesman revival. Hmm.

― Clancy Fans and Fancy Clans (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Just booked tickets to see Juliet Binoche in Miss Julie at the Barbican in September. PSYCHED!!!!!

― jed_, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Off to Other Desert Cities tonight (annual Broadway splurge); haven't seen Stockard Channing in awhile (2 Guare plays) and Stacy Keach never...

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

saw brimstone and treacle at the arcola in dalston (london) last night... very good though lots of changes from potter's original, and hackneyed use of punk music between acts to show changing britain or some similarly dumb overdone thing.

― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

only saw the film with Shting

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

jesus just googled that, crazy! is it any good?

the original tv play is brilliant.

― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

stage version last night did have the amusing cliffhanger at the end whereby nobody wanted to applaud too soon after the rape scene that ends it. long, long and awkward silence.

― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

I remember it being good... probably the 3rd Potter I saw after the two versions of Pennies from Heaven.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Plug plug plug to New Yorkers:

A show I adapted and directed is going to run in NYC in August. Details here and here.

― Odd Spice (Eazy), Thursday, 12 July 2012 01:37 (11 months ago) Permalink

thx Eazy.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 July 2012 01:40 (11 months ago) Permalink

I'll be at all the shows--say hi if you make it there.

― Odd Spice (Eazy), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:51 (11 months ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

Tech-ed my show today. Love being next door to Mamoun's and the Comedy Cellar.

Showtimes:
http://www.nyc-arts.org/events/20291/fringenyc-an-interrogation-primer

― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Thursday, 9 August 2012 00:39 (10 months ago) Permalink

hah, I was at Mamoun's at 6pm... I'll have to figure this out

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 August 2012 02:22 (10 months ago) Permalink

Saw Sam Shepard's new play, Heartless, last night. As always with him, very hit or miss, but some moments that work are sticking with me. Truly weird, rather than the more naturalistic True West, et al. Back to his shapeshifting roots.

Really liked the Signature space a lot--acoustics were perfect. And all tickets are $25--perfect price for an inconsistent show that I'm very glad to have seen.

Gary Cole is actually terrific in this.

― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Monday, 13 August 2012 22:31 (10 months ago) Permalink

My show's getting a bunch of great reviews. Tix may sell out soon.

http://www.backstage.com/review/ny-theater/off-off-broadway/an-interrogation-primer-at-the-NY-Fringe-Festival/

― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Saturday, 18 August 2012 23:35 (10 months ago) Permalink

great stuff Eazy. well done!

― jed_, Saturday, 18 August 2012 23:40 (10 months ago) Permalink

i had a great time watching 3 Tom Murphy plays today.

http://www.druid.ie/productions/druidmurphy-the-plays-of-tom-murphy

― all the worlds a stage and kitty's just stepped into the spotlight (cajunsunday), Saturday, 18 August 2012 23:48 (10 months ago) Permalink

I'll be dere Saturday, Eazy.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 12:50 (9 months ago) Permalink

Great great--I'll be there.

― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 15:08 (9 months ago) Permalink

seeing this tomorrow:

― jed_, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:47 (9 months ago) Permalink

it lasts four and a half hours.

― jed_, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:49 (9 months ago) Permalink

Eaz, just look after the show for a guy who has a cane or appears to need one. (hoping I can get there, today is a bitch)

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 August 2012 16:57 (9 months ago) Permalink

The theater (unfortunately) is up two flights of stairs, in case that makes a difference.

Been a good run, both with audiences and press. Hope to do more with it.

― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:35 (9 months ago) Permalink

holy shit that was 4 hours of absolutely incredible stagecraft. i have NEVER seen an entire audience give a standing ovation for a full ten minutes but that's what happened.

― jed_, Sunday, 26 August 2012 01:33 (9 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

just found out i won free tickets to see theatre de la ville-paris's staging of ionesco's 'rinocerose' tomorrow night!

― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Friday, 21 September 2012 01:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

btw I really liked the play Eazy directed, and not just cuz 40 mins is about the longest I can sit these days.

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 September 2012 01:35 (8 months ago) Permalink

Hey, thanks. Didn't think you made it, between the two flights and the cane, and very glad you did.

― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Friday, 21 September 2012 02:04 (8 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

I get these Theatermania discount emails that encourage you to "Go beyond Broadway..."
The first two shows offered in today's are Cougar the Musical and The Butt-cracker Suite.

I must've asked about the Steppenwolf VaWoolf? revival before , yeah? And has anyone seen Mies Julie in Brooklyn?

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 November 2012 04:21 (6 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

This I'd like to see:
http://www.thewrap.com/culture/article/fiona-shaw-returning-broadway-colm-toibins-testament-mary-72086

Haven't heard anything bad about VaWoolf all these years. Never was in the right place at the right time to see it.

This is funny:
http://www.broadway.com/buzz/166904/whos-virginia-woolf-watch-tracy-letts-and-amy-morton-endure-five-awkward-tv-questions/

― to each his own but (Eazy), Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:26 (4 months ago) Permalink

^Saw it yesterday.

The state of Broadway audiences is such that the douse-your-phones announcement was made BEFORE EACH OF THE THREE ACTS. George's Who's Afraid monologue about the coming death of civilization via technology fulfilled.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 February 2013 15:21 (4 months ago) Permalink

Glad to hear it's worththe time and ticket (just saw the Albee thread). Did it feel like a good version of the same play you'd seen before, or new/fresh?

― a tidy profit in Russia (Eazy), Sunday, 3 February 2013 16:56 (4 months ago) Permalink

well since I'd never seen the full text performed, given the film cuts, yes it did seem fresh. I'm pretty sure the Act III scene where Martha tells Nick that George is the only man who's ever satisfied her was not in the movie?

I'm gonna look for that 4 x LP of the first staging now, tho I won't play it today...

I don't think I could watch that Fox interview, anymore than a snuff film.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 February 2013 17:30 (4 months ago) Permalink

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