I mean I got paid yeah.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Has anyone seen The Trial as a play? What was it like?
going in july /thanksfornothing
― ledge, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link
saw this one http://www.retz.co.uk/ in hackney a couple of years ago it was kind of fun but v loose and ~conceptual~ e.g. promenade/immersive/etc.
going to young vic one in june
― conrad, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 13:08 (nine years ago) link
Another cheerful evening of Germanic culture! xp
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
seldom seen a bad play at the young vic
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 13:21 (nine years ago) link
we have Juliette Binoche coming up at BAM in Antigone
― surm, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
(directed by Ivo van Hove)
it was ok
― conrad, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
thought Binoche was terrible tbh. the rest of the cast mostly good & great translation.
― woof, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
really. ugh. hate when that happens.
― surm, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
The Flick is well acted, funny, cleverly structured; I liked it. Really though, Pulitzer? What was in the pool that year? (Don't feel compelled to research.)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
morbs u go out a lot, i feel like
― surm, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 02:12 (nine years ago) link
yep! in NYC i feel like staying home alone is... why? unless someone else is there or baseball is on.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
THANK YOU
― surm, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 02:28 (nine years ago) link
heading to a flick discovered through morbius later - the royal road - & belatedly remembered i'd played a part in inflicting the flick, was potentially liable for a part-refund, &c. really glad you liked it. you know more about pulitzer credentials than i do but i feel like the sharpness and focus and at least noteworthy freshness of form make it pretty eligible. i just thought it was so strong, though. mapping the various heartbreaking dynamics of the three of them, & hanging this on generally sparse or ostensibly benign dialogue, it just felt like such a masterful balancing act to me.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 31 May 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
Anyone in NYC want to check out a one-woman play written by and starring one of my college classmates and then tell me if it's any good?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/theater/review-in-this-is-mary-brown-mom-has-troubles-but-is-quite-a-character.html?_r=0
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
looks cool. been curious to check out La MaMa.
― surm, Sunday, 21 June 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Earlier this year, in May, I saw three theater productions in three days. But I guess I didn't care enough to mention it on this thread.
― Aimless, Monday, 22 June 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link
what'd you see?
― surm, Monday, 22 June 2015 00:11 (nine years ago) link
These three productions were part of the repertory season of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR, which has a pretty good rep as regional theater goes. My wife and I saw:
Fingersmith, an adaptation of the novel of the same name, very much a plot-twist driven play. We saw it the first night and it was a middling production and a somewhat flawed play. It was performed in bad cockney accents and never wholly committed to being either melodrama or naturalistic drama, and wound up neither fish nor fowl. It had its moments, and the audience lapped it up, but I never got into it.
Pericles, a seldom performed Shakespeare play that we read aloud to one another just prior to seeing it. The first three acts of the text were probably not written by WS, or if they were, he wrote them when he was still a cack-handed apprentice. The fourth act improved to a level of fair competence and the final act was fully mature Shakespeare. This production made a lot of judicious cuts to original, abridged it to two acts, added several songs not in the original, and astonishingly made a pretty good play out of it. Quite enjoyable work. Would recommend.
Secret Love in Peach Blossom Time, a play first produced in Taiwan a couple of decades ago, that became a hit. The playwright directed this production in Ashland. It's a mashup of a tear-jerking drama and farce, on balance favoring the farce over the drama by about two-to-one. This one was delightful. The pacing was a thing of beauty.
― Aimless, Monday, 22 June 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link
wow that sounds good
― surm, Monday, 22 June 2015 00:55 (nine years ago) link
Did anyone see the stage version of let the right one in in nyc? I was the assistant designer on that. I just want to know if I got a credit hah
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 22 June 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
ha no but that sounds amazing!
― surm, Monday, 22 June 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
lol, this fucken moranhttp://www.playbill.com/news/article/exclusive-meet-the-guy-who-tried-to-charge-his-phone-on-stage-at-hand-to-god-353020
Silvestri returned to his seat with his smart phone, but the drama wasn't over yet. "The head guy came down and started yelling at me in front of my family and the whole place. My mother kept saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry,' and they finally let us us stay and watch the play."And what did he think of Hand to God? "We enjoyed the show. I'm not much of a play guy, but it wasn't bad."Did he ever get to charge his phone?"No."In retrospect, what would he say to the cast? "Hey, I'm sorry if I delayed your show five minutes. But you got a lot of attention from this, so maybe I made your show a little better [better known]."
And what did he think of Hand to God? "We enjoyed the show. I'm not much of a play guy, but it wasn't bad."
Did he ever get to charge his phone?"No."
In retrospect, what would he say to the cast? "Hey, I'm sorry if I delayed your show five minutes. But you got a lot of attention from this, so maybe I made your show a little better [better known]."
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 July 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
i was in the middle of a monologue on stage on monday and someone's phone rang - it actually took them ages to find it and end it too. it's a v small space and it felt too intimate for me to just ignore it, so i kind of just held character and stared at her until it stopped.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 10 July 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
phone charger old news, eclipsed by LuPone
"I am so defeated by this issue that I seriously question whether I want to work on stage anymore. Now I'm putting battle gear on over my costume to marshall the audience as well as perform."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/entertainment/feat-patti-lupone-cell-phone/index.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 July 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
Fun Home lost out to The Flick in 2014 (haven't seen either).
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 10 July 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
at the monthly gay club i run with my friend we don't allow anyone to use their phones on the dancefloor. you get asked to leave the dancefloor and permanently barred if you refuse.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 10 July 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
i find it astonishing that someone would actually look at their phone during a show, rather than say forgetting to turn it off.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 10 July 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
it's routine at movies in NYC. doing it on Broadway takes balls esp at those prices.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 July 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
yeah, but touristsconcerts are now officially the worst; people arrive with their fucking arms extended and phones on
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 July 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
^lifelong idiot NYers fully capable of this behavior.
My pal's son Will is in this, alas sold out already, w/ other recent LaGuardia grads:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanne-rendell/theater-on-their-own-terms_b_7785570.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 July 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
my aunt wants to take me to something called JOHN at Signature NYC on Aug 8 but it's about young struggling love blegh
trying to figure out something else
― surm, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
it's by the playwright/dir of The Flick, surm, big dual profile in the Sunday Times
she can take me! j/k
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
in addition to Christopher Abbott, the legendary Lois Smith is in it i think. the reg tix are just $25 anyhoo.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
oh u hafta subscribe for the discount, that figgers
http://www.signaturetheatre.org/tickets/production.aspx?pid=4241
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah she's insisting on it Morbs. she's like do you want to bring your bf? i'm like ... no
― surm, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
btw The Flick just extended here thru January 10.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 July 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
iiinteresting
― surm, Thursday, 23 July 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
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...
Hah, I don't think I was much of this parish at that point.
I thought it was fantastic, one of the best things I've seen, and it gave me a lot of Thoughts about England, particularly as contrasted with Britain. It strikes me as secretly being partially about the Criminal Justice Act, and I really wish I could discuss it with the dude I know who I am pretty certain has strong firsthand views on such things (and may have joked about being the kid on the gatefold of Songs For the Jilted Generation), but I'm pretty certain he didn't see it. I mean, the dude is doing okay, he has a canal boat now, but he doesn't see a lot of £50 plays.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 24 July 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
The answer is now yes, Rory Kinnear in the Young Vic production. It was pretty good. Wasn't convinced at first, it started out like a lurid bedroom farce interspersed with brief monologues in a strange kind of joycean proto-language. But it got increasingly nightmarish, though no less lurid - the hints and elided scenes of sex in the novel were dragged into the full glare of our hypermediated and hypersexualised environment - and it had a real sense of bewilderment and persecution. It did pull a punch with the death scene though.
Benedict Cumberbatch thought it (or Kinnear) was worth a standing ovation.
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 09:03 (nine years ago) link
Well if Cumberbatch likes it then who are we to disagree?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 09:12 (nine years ago) link
Well they're probably bezzie mates so it would have been rude of him not to. Kinnear was very good though, as was Kate O’Flynn playing multiple roles.
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 09:41 (nine years ago) link
i thought the trial was very good - i liked kinnear, don't normally like him, and kate o'flynn was amazing. the set was great. one drawback was that the music was poor and very clichéd, i felt.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 09:52 (nine years ago) link
i didn't like the clockwork orange style proto-language - i thought that was pretty stupid and didn't add to it
Can't say I'm a fan of Clockwork Orange-speak either :-( Hopefully that didn't elbow Kafka's phrasing too much.
I'll find out in a couple of weeks.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 09:58 (nine years ago) link
Stage director Peter Brook is revisiting The Mahabharata, his nine-hour epic stage production from 1985, as part of the Young Vic's new season.The new play Battlefield, will focus on one section of the epic, dealing with the aftermath of a military conflict.It will premiere in Paris on 15 September before coming to the Young Vic in February.
The new play Battlefield, will focus on one section of the epic, dealing with the aftermath of a military conflict.
It will premiere in Paris on 15 September before coming to the Young Vic in February.
I'm in.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Well, Marc Maron has a post about loving Annie Baker's The Flick and John and interviewed her for an upcoming show, so maybe she'll be reaching a broader audience soon. Maybe the first mainstream "cool" playwright since Kushner?
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
lin-manuel miranda begs to differ
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Oh, that's true.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link