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Oct. 8th, 2010 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoI 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.
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Date: 2010-10-09 04:45 pm (UTC)I went into details about why I disliked the play in a comment thread on my own Ashland post. Are you going to make me cut and paste? (Though I forgot about the Shakespeare allusions.)
The arrows at the end were one of the few things I liked. Not the text within the play, just the stage setting. It's also one of the few times that some sort of prop appeared on the stage and I didn't see it being put into place.
What got me about the Forest Spirit was the spinning wheel. I'm no expert in spinning, but shouldn't the stuff you're spinning go from one place to another? I spent most of the time she was on stage trying to figure out where the thread was GOING (and how the prop actually worked) that I didn't pay as much attention to what she said as I might of. Because, you know, the prophecy isn't very important to the play or anything.