lea's twitterings: TOO INANE FOR LJ!

[angevin2]

• 00:19 following up timon of athens with the comedy of errors. it is, after all, short, and i don't have class tomorrow. #
• 00:20 well, it has a nice colorful opening. that's a start. although the beeb's exterior sets still suck. #
• 00:21 that man has nice legs. #
• 00:21 AUGH he took off his helmet and turned out to be creepy and old. #
• 00:23 the way they pronounce "syracuse" is a little unsettling. #
• 00:24 man, it's convenient that there's a big map of the mediterranean in the middle of the square when someone needs to exposit #
• 00:24 also one wonders how the twins' dad feels about having the local commedia dell'arte troupe pantomiming his tragic life story. #
• 00:25 @ rikibeth they're saying "sire-accuse" #
• 00:26 @ rikibeth i've never seen it performed -- the ones i'm watching first are the ones i haven't seen before #
• 00:28 OH LORD the guy whose legs i was complimenting is the ubiquitous charles gray #
• 00:29 @ rikibeth HEE. #
• 00:29 from an imdb comment on this production: #
• 00:29 ""I don't care what his rationale was, there are three things in life worth avoiding: folk dancing, incest and commedia dell'arte." #
• 00:30 @ rikibeth i am pretty sure you're right about that. macbeth is pretty popular too. #
• 00:33 heee, there's roger daltrey! doing shakespeare! #
• 00:35 @ rikibeth //cracks up. disturbingly, you can also see them in the beeb richard ii. #
• 00:38 @ rikibeth this was filmed in 1983, so it's post-backlit-jesus. he plays both the dromios. #
• 00:40 this is also a very cleavagey production. #
• 00:41 @ rikibeth he's not too bad, actually. #
• 00:43 @ rikibeth this is true. #
• 00:43 the woman playing adriana is a little bit scary. #
• 00:45 aaaand there is the obligatory marx brothers mirror gag, as required to be in all productions of this play. #
• 00:48 this play is really confusing when you have one actor for each set of twins, and each set of twins dresses alike at all times. #
• 00:53 also i do not remember attempted public blowjobs in this play. #
• 00:57 @ rikibeth this seems not only plausible but likely. ;) #
• 01:00 @ rikibeth he is not. well, he's one of the people watching. also i am not sure it is ACTUALLY supposed to be a blowjob, but it LOOKS LIKE IT #
• 01:09 this production slows down a lot in the middle. #
• 01:21 la la la this is not really very interesting anymore. #
• 01:22 also i keep expecting someone to say "wherefore art thou dromio?" #
• 01:25 meanwhile, the commedia troupe feeds the antipholi's father a giant taco #
• 01:40 i am not loving this production. perhaps tomorrow i shall watch "king john," because i am v fond of that play. #
• 01:42 aaaaand the doors of the abbey open, claire bloom comes out, and there is LOUD CHORAL MUSIC. #
• 01:43 she is a very blinged-out abbess. #
• 02:01 hooray nice obvious split-screen fx! #
• 02:02 also, correction: the abbess is wendy hiller, not claire bloom //headdesk #
• 02:02 hence, the duke and duchess of york from the beeb RII are both in this scene, though their characters are not married this time. ;) #
• 02:04 i like that the last scene points out that THIS PLAY OBSERVES THE UNITIES MOSTLY #
• 02:11 and that is that. eh. it was okay, but it dragged in the middle. #
• 13:01 @ theredshoes awwww. there shall be more shakespeare tonight! #
• 13:40 @ queeniefox WE DO NOT DISCUSS IT WITH OUTSIDERS. #
• 14:30 @ queeniefox i bet they totally do. #
• 16:27 kip_w has got me wishing the marx brothers had performed timon of athens. because how awesome would THAT be? #

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