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Nov. 19th, 2011 07:53 pm15-minute study break turned into a 30-minute wherein I signed up for Yuletide and tried not to watch Youtube. Need to knit so much. Am resisting.
1) Mum okay. Yay!
2) Richard III:
-Unfortunately seated with a bunch of antsy high school kids who were not interested in Shakespeare and were clearly on a school excursion and irritated me by groaning at the torture they were undergoing.
-Unfortunately Kelvin Spacey's Richard with a balding spot (that was very visible because I was in the circle seats at the top) and limp reminded me of Fagin (though Fagin didn't limp... I think?), though he made up for it by being appropriately villain-like.
-Highlight: mashing the end of his walking stick into the box (bucket?) containing Hastings's head: yucky but shocking. At last, a response from half-asleep high school kids!
-Actor in role of Buckingham very good.
-The two princes looked too tall and sounded fake.
-Nice stagecraft near the end.
-Tho perhaps not necessary to hoist dead Richard up with a cable clipped to his leg brace at the end so he hanged upside down as curtains closed. Bit overkill.
That's all.
1) Mum okay. Yay!
2) Richard III:
-Unfortunately seated with a bunch of antsy high school kids who were not interested in Shakespeare and were clearly on a school excursion and irritated me by groaning at the torture they were undergoing.
-Unfortunately Kelvin Spacey's Richard with a balding spot (that was very visible because I was in the circle seats at the top) and limp reminded me of Fagin (though Fagin didn't limp... I think?), though he made up for it by being appropriately villain-like.
-Highlight: mashing the end of his walking stick into the box (bucket?) containing Hastings's head: yucky but shocking. At last, a response from half-asleep high school kids!
-Actor in role of Buckingham very good.
-The two princes looked too tall and sounded fake.
-Nice stagecraft near the end.
-Tho perhaps not necessary to hoist dead Richard up with a cable clipped to his leg brace at the end so he hanged upside down as curtains closed. Bit overkill.
That's all.