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[morganmuffle]

This morning has been... challenging to say the least but amazingly we've mostly solved all of the problems that got thrown at us. Mostly.

Distraction needed at lunchtime however so another review I guess.

Comments

[katie__pillar]

I'm all for a man in a dress but some men (Philip Cumbus) should leave it to others. Hee.

I liked it but it didn't 100% work for me, I must say. I really felt for the junkies though (I do especially like those two) and was sad at the end of their story. The violin thing was proper shocking.

What I liked best though, was that most of the people around me clearly didn't go to the theatre much and were really mesmerised by all the things we take for granted as regular goers, like how they did the various special effects when everyone had been on stage for ten minutes or longer "is that real?" "is he really doing that?" "where did the blood come from?". And the ~17yo guy near me who just kept saying "oh my days" in more and more amazed tones as things came to a head - especially when Pentheus met his end. (One of his friends grabbed a bit of "flesh" that landed on the stairs next to him and looked very pleased with himself.)

[morganmuffle]

Probably true, the beard definitely added something to the look as well.

It tried really hard but didn't quite click somehow which is sad but then very ambitious projects often end up like that it was worth seeing either way.

That's brilliant! It was quite a mixed audience, I noticed that too, a lot of non-Globe or non-theatre people and reactions to the stage magic were quite fantastic. "Oh my days" is a brilliant reaction!

[saffronra]

I really didn't like it :/ I found Ladyboy's accent cringeworthy, didn't like a lot of the gender-presentation stuff, thought that the musical elements made it feel really amateurish (though I think an element of this was the Globe not really being the right venue for a musical like this). I also don't think they did a good enough job on making it a coherent play if you don't know the source material (I didn't, so spent a lot of it deeply confused about what the narrative actually was)