Love's Labours Lost and found
Feb. 13th, 2005 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaideni went to see LLL at Seattle Shakes the other night with a great deal of trepidation - not only did i feel physically lousy, but i'm not enamored of the play.
it has a deal of sentimental value, since it was the first play i auditioned for in college; i was incredibly intimidated, but having the opportunity to participate in any way in a production of Shakespeare was dreamy. i hoped to perhaps be Jaquenetta, the dairy maid, or some sort of spear-carrier. instead i was the Princess of France, i had incredibly elaborate costumes made to order, and there was partying and sex.
the play really isn't that good, as Shakespeare goes. the characters are recycled, and so are the themes. it is particularly un-quotable. it has yielded a Branaugh film adaptation so bad that i couldn't finish watching it.
this production was pretty okay, aided by the fact that i think i could watch the beautiful Beethovan Oden do pretty much anything. the Princess and the King were both cast as much older and more bookish than their companions, which was interesting, but i felt it wasn't an advantage when the spine of the show is the Rosaline/Berowne relationship (and better if the royals are members of their respective gangs rather than the spinster aunt and uncle). the costumes were particularly good this time, in spite of the inability of anyone at SSC to use a goddamn iron.
when we arrived at the theatre, we got a slip of paper from a gentleman lurking outside saying that the director was disavowing the production. Hot Tipper![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrdorbin found this bit of info on the affair. makes some sense of the casting. Seattle is a very small town sometimes.
it has a deal of sentimental value, since it was the first play i auditioned for in college; i was incredibly intimidated, but having the opportunity to participate in any way in a production of Shakespeare was dreamy. i hoped to perhaps be Jaquenetta, the dairy maid, or some sort of spear-carrier. instead i was the Princess of France, i had incredibly elaborate costumes made to order, and there was partying and sex.
the play really isn't that good, as Shakespeare goes. the characters are recycled, and so are the themes. it is particularly un-quotable. it has yielded a Branaugh film adaptation so bad that i couldn't finish watching it.
this production was pretty okay, aided by the fact that i think i could watch the beautiful Beethovan Oden do pretty much anything. the Princess and the King were both cast as much older and more bookish than their companions, which was interesting, but i felt it wasn't an advantage when the spine of the show is the Rosaline/Berowne relationship (and better if the royals are members of their respective gangs rather than the spinster aunt and uncle). the costumes were particularly good this time, in spite of the inability of anyone at SSC to use a goddamn iron.
when we arrived at the theatre, we got a slip of paper from a gentleman lurking outside saying that the director was disavowing the production. Hot Tipper
mrdorbin found this bit of info on the affair. makes some sense of the casting. Seattle is a very small town sometimes.
