Theatre

[saffronlie]

Recently I saw the STC's production of Our Town. As the script directs, the play was performed on a bare theatre stage, with no set, and chairs and ladders forming the majority of the props. The directions of the Stage Manager character and the audience's imaginations supply the rest. Does the story suffer for all this? Hell no. It's such an

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[templa_otmena]

I saw John Barrowman in his final matinee performace of Jack in Jack in the Beanstalk (high brow days) ;) which was of course a panto and they went all ouit with the gags and mucking around because it was the last day. As a group of fangirling, 18-20 year old students we didn't think much of it but throughout they actually had one or two shout outs from the audience reminding them that it was a family show. It was said in good humour, but it was quite extraordinary- even for a panto, I felt ;)

Hairspray sounded like an experience. I love musicals and I love ott but, you know, you can go too far- sounds like a bit of a painful caricature of the movie. What did you go off to see when I saw you in London, again?

As for the other play, sounds delish. I've seen amazingly good and amazingly bad student plays, of course, employing the same 'setting'. On one of the more memorable, dodgy occasions I got hit in the head by a 'seagull'- the stage wasn't as sparse as it was meant to be as we were crammed slightly onto it. WIll have to look your play up.

Last play that I went to was performed by the Haworth Amateur Dramatic Society (HADS) and I still need a night cap each night to cope with that experience... ("LINE!").

Lots of love, my love xXx

[saffronlie]

Hee, that sounds fun. One of the leads in Hairspray was a bit Barrowman-esque, looks-wise. Hawt. I saw Legally Blonde that day! I'm trying to think if I would take a child to see it, and I'm really not sure. I don't know how you'd explain to a kid the whole 'bend and snap' thing.

LOL. Yes, I've been guilty of bare-stage productions myself. When done well, it's excellent, but when done badly, it's so, so wrong. I'm sorry that Haworth is a little theatrically deprived. Will meet you in London for a show any time. x