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Can I be 'Seventh man in thick-knit jersey doing something vague and unnecessary with nets'? So you saw my production, GG?  |
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« Reply #16 on: 10:00:32, 19-04-2007 » |
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'Aura' could possibly be done with trick lighting, Ron. Singing voice would be another matter  When I've finished doing implausible things with the nets, "Second Man grunting and straining to turn capstan pulling invisible off-stage boat with manifestly slack rope." |
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« Reply #17 on: 10:08:19, 19-04-2007 » |
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And were it (Heaven Forfend!) the Opera North production you could also essay fifth-cooperative-Boroughperson-helping-to-build-Grimes's-hut-in-full-view-of-the-audience-during-the-Passacaglia-because-we-can't-do-it-any-other-way-on-this-really-not-very-appropriate-set...
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« Reply #18 on: 10:53:44, 19-04-2007 » |
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I'm still (genuinely) interested to know how you'd approach staging GRIMES, Ron? Not necessarily with the cast thus far assembled Have we got an Ellen yet, btw? At this point a Marine Biologist (who paid his own good money to sit in seat D14, ticket-stub attached with this letter) usually writes in to say that metanophrops boschmai - clearly seen being cleaned by Fourth Fishwife during the production - is not native to the waters of Orford Ness. Furthermore, the lobster-pots used in the production were of a completely different type and construction to those used by Aldeburgh fisherman in this period. And what is more, Aldeburgh fisherman traditionally wear a waxed canvas smock, and not the entirely inauthentic Aran sweaters seen in your... (cont p94) [Am I allowed to call fishwives "fishwives" during Ian's absence, do you think?] |
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« Reply #19 on: 11:00:15, 19-04-2007 » |
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What I'd really like to be is the bloke in the pub nursing a quiet pint and reaching over to close the door every time someone bursts in during the storm.  |
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« Reply #20 on: 11:23:06, 19-04-2007 » |
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I'd originally suggested Milly - a mother-figure if ever there was - but I rather think Mary Chambers might want to essay the role too: somehow I don't think she'd require the score, either....
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« Reply #21 on: 12:08:57, 19-04-2007 » |
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I'm still (genuinely) interested to know how you'd approach staging GRIMES, Ron? 'Peter McGrimes' perhaps, from the superb setting?  Have we got an Ellen yet, btw? We named our daughter after Ellen Orford (er, the Ellen bit). I'll see if she's available as second understudy. |
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« Reply #22 on: 12:15:14, 19-04-2007 » |
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We named our daughter after Ellen Orford (er, the Ellen bit). I'll see if she's available as second understudy.
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« Reply #23 on: 12:20:00, 19-04-2007 » |
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Hmm, or possibly a minor androgynous member of the Bloomsbury Group.
Not to be be confused with Eliot Ness and his lovely wife Orford.
('Ere, this is my flesh and blood we are talking about.)
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« Reply #24 on: 12:39:59, 19-04-2007 » |
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a minor androgynous member Isn't that one for the 'Unfortunate phrases' (ex-'Unfortunate titles') thread? |
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« Reply #25 on: 12:40:37, 19-04-2007 » |
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I'd originally suggested Milly - a mother-figure if ever there was - but I rather think Mary Chambers might want to essay the role too: somehow I don't think she'd require the score, either....
I think I'm a bit too old for Ellen, and I'm not a soprano either. Milly can have it. I'd quite like to be Mrs Sedley, and sing "Murder most foul it is", but I'd really like to be in the chorus. And you're right, I wouldn't need the score. |
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« Reply #26 on: 14:05:27, 19-04-2007 » |
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Just in case there is anyone out there who doesn't know Crabbe's original poem, (and I don't think it's readily available in print) here's a link: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/573.html(for some reason no line is appearing underneath. I cut and pasted from another tab.) The passage starting line 181 "When tides were neap, and, in the sultry day," is magnificent as natural description, and conveying the old villain's state. Crabbe manages to convey the feelings of the inarticulate, one of many ways in which Britten's character is different from Crabbe's. |
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« Reply #27 on: 14:17:27, 19-04-2007 » |
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I'd like to be a Lobster.
Thank you
Tommo
PS That non-singing part would be perfect for my rather inconsistent baritone.
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« Reply #28 on: 14:40:14, 19-04-2007 » |
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Thanks Don! Good to see confirmation (well, I needed it) that the line 'Grimes is at his exercise' (line 78) was indeed Crabbe's. |
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« Reply #29 on: 15:48:22, 19-04-2007 » |
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