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Daily Update, now with 100% more blood!
Oct. 8th, 2010 10:32 pmI have no idea how it started but I managed to hoodwink Amanda into driving two hours while listening to my music so we could go to Crater Lake for... half an hour? An hour? I showed her the Rogue River and the Gorge, and then she climbed steps so I could find that the viewing platform which was covered in snow last time we visited was closed half an hour ago. But she took lots of pictures and promised me that she enjoyed the trip. One day, I will get to Wizard Island again. This I swear.
This evening was THRONE OF BLOOD. Wow. The technicals on this show were really cool. Lighting, sound, the superscript video, and Ako's impression of Bjork. The Forest Spirit's voice effect was occasionally over the top, and I think that the actor could have pulled off creepy and supernatural with just a little distortion. The story was disapponting, though. The play was short (around two hours) and very direct. There was none of MacBeth's nuance or complexity, and although having our hero arrowed to death by his own men rather than dramatically slain in a chatty mano-a-mano fight with the leader of the other forces was intellectually more satisfying I still ended the show feeling lacking.
EDIT: Dropping Shakespearean allusions ("all's well that ends well", etc) into the text wasn't clever. It was a distracting and annoying reach for a cheap laugh.
This evening was THRONE OF BLOOD. Wow. The technicals on this show were really cool. Lighting, sound, the superscript video, and Ako's impression of Bjork. The Forest Spirit's voice effect was occasionally over the top, and I think that the actor could have pulled off creepy and supernatural with just a little distortion. The story was disapponting, though. The play was short (around two hours) and very direct. There was none of MacBeth's nuance or complexity, and although having our hero arrowed to death by his own men rather than dramatically slain in a chatty mano-a-mano fight with the leader of the other forces was intellectually more satisfying I still ended the show feeling lacking.
EDIT: Dropping Shakespearean allusions ("all's well that ends well", etc) into the text wasn't clever. It was a distracting and annoying reach for a cheap laugh.