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Post by The Doctor on Jan 22, 2015 22:26:43 GMT
1: NT Live: Treasure Island - I really liked the sets but as a whole it all fell a bit flat for me.  -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 24, 2015 19:18:16 GMT
1: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Lost: Hmmmm, well this play was new to me and despite the high quality of the production (I think the RSC could make a dead rock entertaining) it is the first Shakespeare story I've experienced that struggled to hold my attention. Subplots that go nowhere, too many OTT 'comic' characters and an ending which thunders in from somewhere else entirely. Didn't help that the chap playing Moth had a touch of the psychotic Nazi death stare about him. For now, however, I can safely tick this off the list of 'Shakespeare plays I haven't seen yet' and move on!
2: NT Live: Treasure Island.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 9, 2015 23:22:30 GMT
Can we change this thread to 'Theatre in the Cinema' or some such thing so that we can include non-live recordings? 1. Globe on Screen: The Duchess of Malfi with Gemma Arterton Strangling, poisoning, stabbing... Everybody dies!!! And speechifies as they do so. Well, almost everybody dies... Great performances, and very atmospheric as entirely by candlelight. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 10, 2015 7:28:42 GMT
I think Burns went to see this too!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 10, 2015 8:36:22 GMT
Hmmm. I always just include pre-recorded theatre shows in the film thread. The Globe site describes these things as 'films' so I put them there and keep live shows separate. The 'live' thread is also where I have put museum or art shows that were streamed in cinemas. We've had it spilt this way last two years, chums.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 10, 2015 9:46:50 GMT
surely there's less difference between a recorded theatre show and a live one than there is between a recorded theatre show and a film?
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 10, 2015 13:03:14 GMT
No. I must signed with Burns here. A live performance is very different to a recorded. Perhaps we need three threads?
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 10, 2015 13:09:53 GMT
1 - RSC Live: Love's Labours Lost (Much Ado About Nothing). Very enjoyable and the moving of the setting to the immediate post-WWI period works very well giving extra depth to some of the characters. Extra points to the guy playing Benedict for regaining control of himself in moments when he almost lost it entirely! Much Ado is a comedy and while I have enjoyed other versions of it that I have seen this was the first one where it seemed they remembered it is a comedy and ran with that. And oh my, Beatrice is.. well, like a car crash.. terrible, frightening but you cannot stop watching... Dogberry is (as in all performances) a slightly odd character and sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 10, 2015 16:33:11 GMT
surely there's less difference between a recorded theatre show and a live one than there is between a recorded theatre show and a film? Well it's how we've had the threads organised in recent years and no-one complained. For me any pre-made thingy of feature length in a cinema goes in my films list (especially if the makes of The Globe On Screen productions explicity describe them as films). Anything with a live element to it goes in my 'live' broadcast list and that is how I will keep things organised for myself but I'm fine with folk using the threads for whatever they like! So I'll leave the changed thread title as is. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 10, 2015 17:09:35 GMT
1: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Won or Much Ado About Nothing - A play I have struggled to get through before and not helped by one staggeringly mind-bogglingly awful performance in the second act which comes close to undermining the whole production. I'm also not sure this is a play which particularly works for me anyway. However, the RSC could make an empty cardboard box entertaining and I do enjoy their live shows so there was still heaps for me to enjoy here. I do begin to feel though that Shakespeare's comedies just don't quite hit the spot for me the way his tragedies and historicals do (well so far anyway).
2: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Lost.
2: NT Live: Treasure Island.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 10, 2015 19:07:40 GMT
I was the one who asked the question - because this was my first non-live play on screen - not the one who changed the thread title! (As you may observe.)
I don't mind, but it would seem odd to me for the same identical show to appear in two different threads when one person sees it as "NT Live" and another persons sees it repeated as "NT Live Encore". Or is a repeat of a live broadcast different again from a play that is only shown after its recording? FOUR THREADS!!! (Kidding.)
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 10, 2015 19:41:51 GMT
I can't stand the confusion in my miiiiiiiiiiind!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Mar 10, 2015 19:56:32 GMT
Well, for the moment this will be stationed here...
1. RSC Live: Loves Labours Won (Much Ado About Nothing): I come and go on Shakespeare's comedies I find. Some of them I like, some of them I don't. This was my first experience of this play and I have to say that I found it to be absolutely great. A wickedly sharp script which got a lot of laughs out of me. (And I have to say that I think Beatrice is marvelous, and definitely amongst Shakespeare's finest female characters - but then, I have form for being rather fond of viciously barbed sarcasm). The way this production was staged was also absolutely fantastic as well. A great way to be introduced to Remote Live Cinema. I'll definitely do this again.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 10, 2015 22:47:48 GMT
Twas I who changed the thread title.
Andy
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 11, 2015 10:59:18 GMT
*dramatic reveal*
Gasp!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 27, 2015 6:40:45 GMT
1. NT Live: A View from the Bridge with Mark Strong
2. Globe on Screen: The Duchess of Malfi with Gemma Arterton
Next up - Globe on Screen: Titus Andronicus.
Edit: And booked well in advance for the Cumberbatch's Hamlet live broadcast in October.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 29, 2015 20:35:41 GMT
1: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Won or Much Ado About Nothing.
2: NT Live: A View From The Bridge - Mark Strong acts his socks off. An interesting play that was new to me. The set is rubbish and some of the directorial choices irked but not enough to ruin it. No idea what the bit about the chair was all about though!
3: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Lost.
4: NT Live: Treasure Island.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 10, 2015 5:57:39 GMT
1. NT Live: A View from the Bridge with Mark Strong
2. Globe on Screen: The Duchess of Malfi with Gemma Arterton
3. Globe on Screen: Titus Andronicus (horrific with misplaced humour - and just not very good)
Martin
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 10, 2015 7:02:36 GMT
Kinda glad I didn't get to go see it on the end last night now!!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2015 20:33:11 GMT
1: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Won or Much Ado About Nothing.
2: NT Live: A View From The Bridge.
3: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Lost.
4: NT Live: Treasure Island.
5: NT Live: The Hard Problem - Hateful characters talk pish.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 17, 2015 7:41:19 GMT
1. NT Live: A View from the Bridge with Mark Strong
2. Globe on Screen: The Duchess of Malfi with Gemma Arterton
3. NT Live: The Hard Problem (made a change from people killing each other, and at least I know what Tom Stoppard is like now)
4. Globe on Screen: Titus Andronicus
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2015 9:16:17 GMT
It was my first exposure to Tom Stoppard but will be my last. To say I found the quality of writing to be poor would be an understatement.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 17, 2015 9:29:06 GMT
1 - RSC Live: Love's Labours Lost (Much Ado About Nothing)
2 - NT Live: The Hard Problem. There were three great things about this play. 1) It was only half the advertised length. 2) This enabled me to have a very pleasant walk home after and see a glorious sunset and 3) on said walk I plotted several unique punishments for Ralph for conning me into going and seeing this terrible play.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 30, 2015 21:36:32 GMT
1. Globe on Screen: Julius Caesar (the public speeches represent Shakespeare at his very best - indeed, the English language at its very best)
2. NT Live: A View from the Bridge with Mark Strong
3. Globe on Screen: The Duchess of Malfi with Gemma Arterton
4. NT Live: The Hard Problem
5. Globe on Screen: Titus Andronicus
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on May 14, 2015 22:02:23 GMT
1: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Won or Much Ado About Nothing.
2: NT Live: A View From The Bridge.
3: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Lost.
4: NT Live: Man and Superman: A very odd experience. In acts 1-2 and 4 we have the tale of an utter prick of a lead character with distasteful views of women and I did not give a flying shit about him. It didn't help that for the first act everyoneisspeakingveryfastasifdirectedtogetthewholeverylongplaydoneinacertaintime. The story was also quite unengaging (other than Mendoza the comedy Spaniard) and I was wondering why George Bernard Shaw was quite so famous. Yet act 3 is a different story about Don Juan in Hell and was witty, engaging and thought provoking, exploring the same themes as the rest of the play but in a much more clever and interesting way using characters that could extrapolate those themes much more entertainingly. It was worth watching just for that section. Despite his continuing inability to pronounce his own name, Ralph Fiennes put in a strong showing with vast reams of dialogue he hadtospeakveryfast and it's always fun to spot Henry Van Statten from the Doctor Who episode 'Dalek' pop up in anything. I always enjoy seeing that actor appear. But, mmmm, if Act 3 was expanded and the rest deleted it would be a much better play!
5: NT Live: Treasure Island.
6: NT Live: The Hard Problem.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 14, 2015 22:25:22 GMT
One of the Globe's productions of Othello was on Sky Arts the other night. I have recorded it for viewing at a later date.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on May 14, 2015 22:28:36 GMT
I keep my Globe in the cinema thoughts in the cinema thread as they are pre-recorded films. Live stuff in here. I haven't seen one yet that I haven't enjoyed though.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 15, 2015 5:49:23 GMT
Still waiting to see what you do if you see a repeat of an NT Live screening, Ralph...  I just find live and recorded performances in front of theatre audiences more similar to one another than either is to a 'normal' movie filmed in bits and pieces on location without an audience and pieced together with re-recorded sound and music in an editing room. In fact, I'm only taking their word for it that the live theatre ones are broadcast live and the others not - I couldn't tell if they were the other way round! Did you get a printed programme sheet for 'Man and Superman'? Mine said that normally the 'Don Juan in Hell' scene is omitted from productions to keep the play's length down. I agree it is by far the best bit, but I liked the rest of it too. 1. NT Live: Man and Superman (very witty, and a magnificent feat of memory and endurance by Mr Fiennes)2. Globe on Screen: Julius Caesar 3. NT Live: A View from the Bridge with Mark Strong 4. Globe on Screen: The Duchess of Malfi with Gemma Arterton 5. NT Live: The Hard Problem 6. Globe on Screen: Titus Andronicus Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on May 15, 2015 7:08:27 GMT
The Globe on Screen site describes them as 'films'. That's what the folk who put them out call them!
It's mad that act 3 of Man and Superman is usually left out when that is the good bit!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 19, 2015 19:29:44 GMT
1: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Won or Much Ado About Nothing.
2: NT Live: A View From The Bridge.
3: RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Lost.
4: NT Live: Everyman - Experience dimmed somewhat due to technical problems with the live stream: we lost all of the before-show presentation and the sound was a bit fuzzy near the end. Which was a shame as I thought the play itself was quite interesting with some very clever and ingenious staging. Could have used a few less f-bombs though.
5: NT Live: Man and Superman.
6: NT Live: Treasure Island.
7: NT Live: The Hard Problem.
-Ralph
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I just find live and recorded performances in front of theatre audiences more similar to one another than either is to a 'normal' movie filmed in bits and pieces on location without an audience and pieced together with re-recorded sound and music in an editing room. In fact, I'm only taking their word for it that the live theatre ones are broadcast live and the others not - I couldn't tell if they were the other way round!