Comments | tesseract_5: 'Anomalisa' and 'Hope Leaves the Theater' at UCLA

tesseract_5

'Anomalisa' and 'Hope Leaves the Theater' at UCLA

Sep 15, 2005 09:34

As the reviewer for the London show said it, this is difficult to describe the levels on levels of self-referential scene breaking character shifting Kaufmanesque theater that Hope Leaves the Theater, a “play within a play” is like.

However, lets start with my favorite of the two sound plays or radio style plays that were performed at UCLA's ( Read more... )

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yanks02 September 15 2005, 09:51:59 UTC

Nghhhhh. How in the world did you sit in the same room as him making kissing noises and not die?

Lovely summary though! I'll have to look for it on CD.

tesseract_5 September 15 2005, 18:50:25 UTC

not sure that Anomalisa will make it to CD, just the Kaufman one :/

but DUDE, yes, so so so GAH! I can't believe, hee! *squirm* :D

aglia September 15 2005, 15:21:07 UTC

Thank you so much for this review! I loved reading it. I can picture DT sitting the way you describe him (his legs really are long!). I'm sure I'd love hearing the play even more than I enjoyed reading this review. Must watch for the CD. Yay! I am so envious that you got to see this, lucky you!

tesseract_5 September 15 2005, 18:51:30 UTC

thanks, the funny thing was that Tom Noonan is like 6'5" and so made Thewlis not look that tall when they stood up for bows, except that Ms. Leigh looked about 3' tall next to them both :)

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tesseract_5 September 15 2005, 18:47:45 UTC

I totally died (a good death)!

the whole play was so so sooooooo well done, music, sound effects and acting

darth_cabal September 15 2005, 19:46:26 UTC

Every time you talk about all the cool theater stuff in your area I drown beneath the envy.

tesseract_5 September 16 2005, 09:26:27 UTC

I suppose your area of the US makes up for theaters and clubby stuff with miles of amazing beaches and perfect weather (besides the heat and humidity)

The Guthrie in Minneapolis had some of the best plays and music events imho, and is WAY cheaper than stuff in LA!

lady_tavington September 16 2005, 02:22:35 UTC

Hi, got here through davidthewlis, read the entire thing (how I did it, I still cannot understand, my fingers are laughing maniacally at me, coz they've been wanting to type out the name DAVID FREAKIN' THEWLIS all friggin day), and I just want to say "HEE."

How DID you do it then? That must have been...sooooo...interesting. To say the verreh, verreh, verreh, VERREH least.

So...can I friend you? Plz? :D

tesseract_5 September 16 2005, 09:29:43 UTC

hee! now you understand how I felt all yesterday! after seeing the play :)

How did I do it? a wonderful person on my flist keeps up with theater events and tipped us off about this event (before it was on Mugglenet and such) and I bought tickets on line, and drove ~ a couple hours down to UCLA ;)

sure, feel free to friend (see my user info) You'll remember me from the review I gave you on that Remus/Tonks fic (all in good fun right?) and the fic I posted to that community? I warn you, my view of Remus/Tonks is MUCH darker than most of the R/T shippers ;)