we happy few
So The War Of The Roses Part 1. In brief.
Act One was hellish. Interminable. Shower of gold glitter was mindboggling and brilliant to begin with, then I began to feel so sorry for the actors who had to speak in that continuing shower. Ms Sheba actually timed it, apparently it fell for a whole hour. I was just so impressed at how they synchronised it stopping with the moment she Richard gave up the crown. But god, move! I was so bored out of my brain. Just goes to show what a colossal difference actual movement makes on a stage. Even La Blanchett barely relieved the tedium. But thank goodness for Pamela Rabe's divinely rich voice and John Gaden's general awesomeness of awesome.
Those moments aside, I was so unengaged by the action that I would look at the continuing shower of gold glitter above my glasses, then through my glasses, then above, then through. So they went from totally trippy blur of shiny to intricately detailed shiny and back and forth and back and forth. Turns out sheba_finesse was doing the exact same thing several rows behind. *lol* Too fucking funny. Sacrilegious but fucking funny.
Act Two was brilliant. Luke! Blood! Oral sex! Homosexual oral sex! Guitar drone! McDonald's bags! Luke in a dress! And finally, Luke boykissing! I went from "urgh, I can't believe I decided to do this around my birthday" to "zomg, Best. Birthday. EVAH!" That would be around the time of the Luke boykissing, yes. Nnnnnnggh! Talk about a squirm in your seat moment.
Although I'm sure three quarters of that was the sheer discovery of seeing Henry V for the first time ever. Gah. Those speeches! And Ewen Leslie did them so well. God. He was using that very clever technique of actually making eye contact with the audience and I swear to god the moments it felt like he was looking at me and speaking those words, I got chills all over. Holy fuck. I so want to rent out the Branagh version now. It's one of the few Shakespearean films of his I haven't seen. And argh, I think Bale plays the role Luke played.
No Night With The Actors. But lots of curtain calls, thankfully en masse. Tomorrow night will prolly be the Q&A. I kinda wish I could skip Act One of tomorrow and just go for Act Two cos that's the Richard III bit and zomg Pamela as Richard III! *squeal*
Still, give me The Lost Echo again any day. Nothing will ever match that experience. Ever.
Act One was hellish. Interminable. Shower of gold glitter was mindboggling and brilliant to begin with, then I began to feel so sorry for the actors who had to speak in that continuing shower. Ms Sheba actually timed it, apparently it fell for a whole hour. I was just so impressed at how they synchronised it stopping with the moment she Richard gave up the crown. But god, move! I was so bored out of my brain. Just goes to show what a colossal difference actual movement makes on a stage. Even La Blanchett barely relieved the tedium. But thank goodness for Pamela Rabe's divinely rich voice and John Gaden's general awesomeness of awesome.
Those moments aside, I was so unengaged by the action that I would look at the continuing shower of gold glitter above my glasses, then through my glasses, then above, then through. So they went from totally trippy blur of shiny to intricately detailed shiny and back and forth and back and forth. Turns out sheba_finesse was doing the exact same thing several rows behind. *lol* Too fucking funny. Sacrilegious but fucking funny.
Act Two was brilliant. Luke! Blood! Oral sex! Homosexual oral sex! Guitar drone! McDonald's bags! Luke in a dress! And finally, Luke boykissing! I went from "urgh, I can't believe I decided to do this around my birthday" to "zomg, Best. Birthday. EVAH!" That would be around the time of the Luke boykissing, yes. Nnnnnnggh! Talk about a squirm in your seat moment.
Although I'm sure three quarters of that was the sheer discovery of seeing Henry V for the first time ever. Gah. Those speeches! And Ewen Leslie did them so well. God. He was using that very clever technique of actually making eye contact with the audience and I swear to god the moments it felt like he was looking at me and speaking those words, I got chills all over. Holy fuck. I so want to rent out the Branagh version now. It's one of the few Shakespearean films of his I haven't seen. And argh, I think Bale plays the role Luke played.
No Night With The Actors. But lots of curtain calls, thankfully en masse. Tomorrow night will prolly be the Q&A. I kinda wish I could skip Act One of tomorrow and just go for Act Two cos that's the Richard III bit and zomg Pamela as Richard III! *squeal*
Still, give me The Lost Echo again any day. Nothing will ever match that experience. Ever.