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Alan Oke is going to sing Aschenbach at Aldeburgh this summer. Interesting thought. They are promising a "fresh take" on D in V , which could be a bit alarming - depends how fresh!
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« Reply #16 on: 23:13:02, 04-03-2007 » |
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« Reply #17 on: 23:24:15, 04-03-2007 » |
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a "fresh take" on D in V - Death On A Spaceship [prod D Pountney]
- DiV as an allegory of the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany in etc etc etc [yawn][prod almost anyone]
- Death in Stalingrad [prod D Chernyakov]
- Death in a Lunatic Asylum where a patient believes he is Aschenbach [prod Deborah Warner]
- Death on a Gigantic Phallus [prod K Warner, design Marie-Jean Lecca]
- Death on a gigantic white set with white furniture and white costumes [prod S Laziridis]
- Death In Venice In The Nude [prod D Freeman]
- Death On A Large Scale with 250 extras [prod Elijah Moshinsky]
- Death on an impossibly tiny budget rehearsed in 2 weeks in a broom-cupboard with no piano or lighting [prod R Torheit]
- Death, Death, Ghastly Terrible Death, [prod Richard Jones]
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They say travel broadens the mind - but in many cases travel has made the mind not exactly broader, but thicker.
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- Death, Death, Ghastly Terrible Death, [prod Richard Jones]
.....with Venetian interiors decorated in 1950s orange and brown patterned wallpaper and naff 1950s furniture to make the audience feel superior and justified in sneering at all the characters. |
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« Reply #19 on: 08:14:54, 05-03-2007 » |
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I like reiner's penultimate suggestion. I'd go and see it.  I liked this one too. DiV as an allegory of the rise of the Nazi Party in GermanyOo yes, the strawberry seller with a Cherman accent saluting, I like that. And maybe Tadzio with a little moustache and slicked-down black hair. Never mind that he's Polish. And that Aschenbach first thinks that his family's calling him 'Adziu'. Which sounds like 'a Jew'. Never actually quite come to terms with that bit. Can we have Aschenbach with a prayer shawl and sidelocks please? |
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« Reply #20 on: 08:35:39, 05-03-2007 » |
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The DiV Fresh Take Quiz  Death in Venice with a fridge, a penny-farthing bicycle, a stuffed elk, an astronaut, a cupboard marked 'Unrelated Objects, resonant juxtapositions for the use of', Aschenbach doing big steps very slowly, the director himself in the nude, blinding spotlight on the audience to finish with [Director ? ] |
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« Reply #21 on: 08:38:04, 05-03-2007 » |
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Tadzio as a girl perhaps. The young Barbara Windsor would be perfect casting |
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« Reply #22 on: 08:49:51, 05-03-2007 » |
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Death in Venice with real watery canal and photorealistic plague and sex sequences [dir David McVicar]
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« Reply #23 on: 08:51:58, 05-03-2007 » |
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Death in Venice in Venice: audience is flown to Venice and left there to fend for themselves.
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« Reply #24 on: 09:35:52, 05-03-2007 » |
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The DiV Fresh Take Quiz Death in Venice with a fridge, a penny-farthing bicycle, a stuffed elk, an astronaut, a cupboard marked 'Unrelated Objects, resonant juxtapositions for the use of', Aschenbach doing big steps very slowly, the director himself in the nude, blinding spotlight on the audience to finish with [Director - G Vick] - The Death Of Klinghoffer in Venice - Klinghoffer is pushed off a vaporetto.
- Death of a Salesman in Venice - an inquest discovers the gondola-crash was not accidental
- Death In The Northern Venice - Aschenbach, in a white linen suit and straw hat, freezes to death in St Petersburg
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« Reply #25 on: 10:08:10, 05-03-2007 » |
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And now the Aussie connection.
Death in Surfers - Aschenbach is hit by a low-flying sailboard
Death in Redfern - in his pursuit of Tadzio Aschenbach accidentally wanders down Eveleigh St
Death in Kings Cross - Aschenbach gets lost, wanders into a bar for a drink but alas! has some injudiciously chosen handkerchieves protruding from his back pockets
Death in Canberra - death by hot air and an overdose of porkies
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« Reply #26 on: 10:52:05, 05-03-2007 » |
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And the American connection:
Death on Venice Beach
Not to mention the puppet version:
Death in Little Venice
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« Reply #27 on: 11:02:48, 05-03-2007 » |
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Life in Venice
Aschenbach doesn't eat the strawberries and he and Tadzio live happily every after.
...founding an extremely successful arts festival centred around the works of Wagner, Mahler, Britten and Thomas Mann.
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« Reply #28 on: 11:56:16, 05-03-2007 » |
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De'ath in Venice A minor poet and columnist takes a pleasant holiday Deaf in Venice An elderly man in a white suit keeps being shouted at by a bass-baritone Dearth in Venice A shortage of fresh strawberries Derv in Venice A fuel mix-up at the vaporetto yard D'oeuf .. (That's enough, Ed) (The director in Reply 21 was meant to be Simon McBurney but wherever the hat fits ) Oh, THAT Kings Cross |
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« Reply #29 on: 12:08:14, 05-03-2007 » |
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GG, not sure it is enough.... can you come up with any more?
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