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« Reply #106 on: 20:35:03, 19-09-2007 » |
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While we are on Dr Who, I see that David Tennant is down to do Hamlet at the RSC next year with Captain Jean-Luc Picard, no less, as Claudius.
I seem to remember this cited as being one of the reasons why the next series is going to be delayed. Then J-L P's back home, GG: Patrick Stewart was a stalwart of the RSC in the late sixties/early seventies, as I'm sure you know. Claudius isn't exactly new to him as a role either: he played the part in the BBC Shakespeare marathon in 1980.
With Derek Jacobi (another Time Lord, even if he was one only briefly) as Hamlet. Stewart's 'Give me some light' after 'The Mousetrap' performance falls to bits is wonderfully ironic (he delivers it deadpan, standing between two guards holding torches) and (I think) brings Hamlet's whole grip on the situation (and onto sanity) into question. |
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« Reply #107 on: 22:54:20, 19-09-2007 » |
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« Reply #108 on: 23:40:24, 19-09-2007 » |
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You're afraid of Geoffrey Rush?
Or his breath?
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« Reply #109 on: 23:47:41, 19-09-2007 » |
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You're afraid of Geoffrey Rush?
Or his breath?
Or crap films? |
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« Reply #110 on: 18:43:49, 29-09-2007 » |
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Well, this could go on a number of threads, but putting it here at least has the advantage of bumping this one, after a lull. Last night my vertigo deprived me of 2/3rds of Seigfried. The bench seat in the gods at the ROH was always going to be a challenge, but I was ok with Rheingold two days earlier. Last night I got up there and it was nausea, dizziness, increasingly unreliable muscles - the business. I had to sit it out until the last Act, by which time some alcohol had had a meritricious effect and I could at least stand against the wall at the back, clinging to a rail, and listen. Oh, and just about see the surtitles. Grump, rant, aaargh. Thank you all so very much indeed for listening. This thing can be seriously debilitating. And it's Gotterdammerung (again) on Monday...   |
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« Reply #111 on: 19:38:40, 29-09-2007 » |
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Cripes Mart, you`re a braver man than me. I don`t think I could have done it. Gulp. Give yourself a pat on the back. Maybe you should take a hip flask on Monday? No really, I mean it.  |
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« Reply #112 on: 19:59:28, 29-09-2007 » |
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Blimey, I bet it was Wotan's descent into Niebelheim in RHEINGOLD that set you off?  |
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« Reply #113 on: 20:45:49, 29-09-2007 » |
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Has anybody thought about doing a Ring that Wagner might have approved?
I.e. Rainbow bridge stretching miles into the air, Valkyries riding steeds that strike sparks from the air and leave vapour trails, a collapse of Valhalla worthy of a Bond flick?
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« Reply #114 on: 20:57:39, 29-09-2007 » |
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The start of the last act was the best bit of the whole event, or at least I thought so. Tomlinson seemed to find a reserve of strength he hadn't displayed before. If it's any comfort, think of me standing for the whole thing.  |
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« Reply #115 on: 21:15:10, 29-09-2007 » |
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If it's any comfort, think of me standing for the whole thing. Standing? You were lucky! 4000 of us Niebelungs all being forced to work underground with no natural light, no ventilation... no sign of a Volsung Health & Safety Officer, I might add... And the pay is shocking....  Has anybody thought about doing a Ring that Wagner might have approved? Bayreuth have pretty-much claimed Der Meister's seal of approval for all of their Ring cycles, despite their greatly-differing looks and feels over the years. I think the main problem is that in the mid/late C19th opera was the "movies" of its era (the form in which you'd have found the biggest stars, best designers, composers, and a "total art-work" which united all these disciplines. But the "total art-work" these days is the flicks, and woe betide the impresario or producer who tries to outdo George Lucas on scenery or special effects... it would just end up as an embarassing fiasco, I fear? |
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« Reply #116 on: 21:43:35, 29-09-2007 » |
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Yes. And I have to say I'm starting to feel that way about Warner's production, fine as it is in many details; and certainly fine as the performances seem so far to be, especially Sir JT. Eruanto's right: he's currently singing the rest off the stage. (And, eru, standing and pacing around is my preferred listening demeanour - it's just that the hag behind whom I was trying to do it thought I was a weirdo trying to stalk her.  ) But of course I meant I saw Walkure, not Rheingold. Had to miss R'gold entirely. |
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« Reply #117 on: 21:56:21, 29-09-2007 » |
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That's rough luck, Martle, but well done for going back for the last Act. That's another success to add to the tally. Not everyone would have done that.  In the circumstances we have agreed on this occasion not to march you off to the Pedantry Thread over the use of 'meretricious'.  |
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« Reply #118 on: 22:05:05, 29-09-2007 » |
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Quite right George, and indeed its mis-spelling.   |
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« Reply #119 on: 22:38:06, 29-09-2007 » |
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Standing? You were lucky! 4000 of us Niebelungs all being forced to work underground with no natural light, no ventilation... no sign of a Volsung Health & Safety Officer, I might add... And the pay is shocking.... A Volsung Health and Safety Officer writes: "Nibelungs! You should be so bloody lucky, mate. Me budget's been cut, I've had to visit some bloke who's got a sword in a tree in his dining room, then serve a condemnation order on the Gibichung Hall, there's rumours of dodgy forging activities going on in the woods and to cap it all I've had a report that some bloke's got his daughter on a rock surrounded by impenetrable fire without any means of egress. I'm off to visit me sister now." |
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