Harvey K-Tel wrote:I'm mounting a version of 'Waiting For Godot' in which Vladimir and Estragon are running on treadmills, with a projection of a bear chasing them in the background.
I'd watch that, certainly different.
Harvey K-Tel wrote:I'm mounting a version of 'Waiting For Godot' in which Vladimir and Estragon are running on treadmills, with a projection of a bear chasing them in the background.
Drama Queenie wrote:You are a chauvinist of the quaintest kind. About as threatening as Jack Duckworth, you are a harmless relic of that cherished era when things were 'different'. Now get back to drawing a moustache on that page three model
Jimbo wrote:I guess I am over Graham Nash's politics. Hopelessly naive by the standards I've molded for myself these days.
Jimbo wrote:I guess I am over Graham Nash's politics. Hopelessly naive by the standards I've molded for myself these days.
bobzilla77 wrote:I have seen that you don't go to plays nor care for them. In that case, you will never find the knowledge which you seek.
Footy wrote:
The Who / Jimi Hendrix Experience Saville Theatre, London Jan '67
. Got Jimi's autograph after the show and went on to see him several times that year
toomanyhatz wrote:I'm still confused as to why someone would seek knowledge about something they've already admitted they don't care about.
Nonsense to the aggressiveness, I've seen more aggression on the my little pony message board......I mean I was told.
toomanyhatz wrote:bobzilla77 wrote:I have seen that you don't go to plays nor care for them. In that case, you will never find the knowledge which you seek.
I'm still confused as to why someone would seek knowledge about something they've already admitted they don't care about.
Footy wrote:
The Who / Jimi Hendrix Experience Saville Theatre, London Jan '67
. Got Jimi's autograph after the show and went on to see him several times that year
bobzilla77 wrote:I'd kind of like to start a theater company that did famous plays, but every single line was delivered sarcastically. It could completely change the ending!
Drama Queenie wrote:You are a chauvinist of the quaintest kind. About as threatening as Jack Duckworth, you are a harmless relic of that cherished era when things were 'different'. Now get back to drawing a moustache on that page three model
Footy wrote:
The Who / Jimi Hendrix Experience Saville Theatre, London Jan '67
. Got Jimi's autograph after the show and went on to see him several times that year
Diamond Dog wrote:nev gash wrote:What is point?
Indeed, what is point?
hippopotamus wrote:This might be my favourite thread ever.
For this I thank you, Markus.
I'm utterly torn... but I think I'll take the question seriously. It's not Necessarily such a stupid question.
I've had clever enough people ask what the point of orchestras putting on the same pieces over and over again compared with the live musicianship of a band who are writing and performing their own things.... I guess the artistry can be more subtle.
I GUESS the same could be true of plays...
But I love theatre. I grew up in a theatre type family.
The differences are the reason you do it. You do it because you want to communicate something to the public. A plotline/written script is the medium. But I'm in any 5 to 500 ways of saying the same lines you can bring different meaning.
But there really is no end to ways where you can bring meaning.
Sometimes just saying the thing at a different time changed the meaning. Putting on a performance of a play from the 17c that happens to imitate modern politics will obviously have new meaning today than it did then. This can be Outlined by making the sets and costumes modernised-where you're inferring that only cosmetic changes are needed to make it entirely relevant.
You can also have fun with the direction.... I absolutely love the company that put on the Bard in the Botanics productions in Glasgow. They are music and colour and glaswegian accents to show the fun and funny of Shakespeare. The staging is outdoors and even that helps disarm you as an audience. I've also seen them put on a very bleak and starkly empty staging of a very serious, lesser known one which let you focus on the strength of the language.
I was a little too involved with Gilbert and Sullivan societies in university. What nutcases. Performing the same 13 Victorian operettas year in year out for over 100 years. Some of my friends went on to dedicate themselves to doing it for life. It's hard to know why people would do this when they have been done to death and done in every way conceivable. My suspicion is that texts or plays that are rich enough can always spark Some thing new and imaginative to say or share.
I absolutely love seeing different interpretations. That s the good bit of theatre.
My big fat question, though, is how you think this is different for films?
Drama Queenie wrote:You are a chauvinist of the quaintest kind. About as threatening as Jack Duckworth, you are a harmless relic of that cherished era when things were 'different'. Now get back to drawing a moustache on that page three model
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
Drama Queenie wrote:You are a chauvinist of the quaintest kind. About as threatening as Jack Duckworth, you are a harmless relic of that cherished era when things were 'different'. Now get back to drawing a moustache on that page three model
hippopotamus wrote:
I was a little too involved with Gilbert and Sullivan societies in university. What nutcases. Performing the same 13 Victorian operettas year in year out for over 100 years. Some of my friends went on to dedicate themselves to doing it for life. It's hard to know why people would do this when they have been done to death and done in every way conceivable. My suspicion is that texts or plays that are rich enough can always spark Some thing new and imaginative to say or share.
I absolutely love seeing different interpretations. That s the good bit of theatre.
OCT wrote:Yeah, film acting relies much more on facial expression, stage acting necessitates greater voice control - but nearly always you're projecting your voice, which can make the delivery of lines seem a little odd. Especially if you're not used to it. Which you aren't, 'cos you don't go to see plays.
hippopotamus wrote:My big fat question, though, is how you think this is different for films?