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softfruit who, in the flurry of post-BiCon LJ "friend"ing, managed to become my 200th LJ friend.[*]
That said, I move on to today. This evening, my belovedcheshcat and I had a date -- we went to see a production of Henry V put on by the Oxford University Dramatic Society. This kind of drama I can get behind!
Until tonight, I had not seen any of the Bard's history plays sincecheshcat and I saw the Royal Shakespeare Company perform the full eight plays of the History Cycle back in February 2008[**]. Of course, no company could live up to that so there was bound to be some degree of let-down inherent in the experience. Still, the performance was quite good despite the fact that it was a student production. I guess this should be assumed, as they are going on tour to London, Stratford-on-Avon, and Georgia!
My main problem with the production was how they chose to treat the text. A lot of scenes -- some funny and some powerful -- were cut, which made the purist in me less than overjoyed. Still, I could understand the need to trim for time... until we got to the end. Not content to leave off where Henry V ends, they actually brought in some material from the first scenes of Henry VI, part one. That really failed spectacularly, in our eyes. Not only is the tone in the following play completely different... but why axe important scenes in the play that you are producing to free up time for scenes froman Italian restaurant another play? Bad move. Nonetheless, don't let my critique fool you -- overall we had a fun time out!
After the show, we went to G&D's to get ice cream for dessert. Now we are home again and I am winding down for the night.
Meanwhile, gentle readers, I leave you with more photographic goodness from BiCon. Here is the lovely dalek tea cosy, made for me by the wonderfulbammba_m and subverted for my own nefarious purposes. Photo credit goes to the lovely xugglybug. Enjoy!
Is that a dalek on my head or am I just happy to see you?
[*] Yes, I'm a number geek. Why do you ask? (Actually, one of my nicknames -- based on tarot -- is the Knave of Numbers)
[**] Which still ranks as my favourite theatre experience ever... but has it really been a year and a half now? Oh, my!
softfruit who, in the flurry of post-BiCon LJ "friend"ing, managed to become my 200th LJ friend.[*]That said, I move on to today. This evening, my beloved
cheshcat and I had a date -- we went to see a production of Henry V put on by the Oxford University Dramatic Society. This kind of drama I can get behind!Until tonight, I had not seen any of the Bard's history plays since
cheshcat and I saw the Royal Shakespeare Company perform the full eight plays of the History Cycle back in February 2008[**]. Of course, no company could live up to that so there was bound to be some degree of let-down inherent in the experience. Still, the performance was quite good despite the fact that it was a student production. I guess this should be assumed, as they are going on tour to London, Stratford-on-Avon, and Georgia!My main problem with the production was how they chose to treat the text. A lot of scenes -- some funny and some powerful -- were cut, which made the purist in me less than overjoyed. Still, I could understand the need to trim for time... until we got to the end. Not content to leave off where Henry V ends, they actually brought in some material from the first scenes of Henry VI, part one. That really failed spectacularly, in our eyes. Not only is the tone in the following play completely different... but why axe important scenes in the play that you are producing to free up time for scenes from
After the show, we went to G&D's to get ice cream for dessert. Now we are home again and I am winding down for the night.
Meanwhile, gentle readers, I leave you with more photographic goodness from BiCon. Here is the lovely dalek tea cosy, made for me by the wonderful
bammba_m and subverted for my own nefarious purposes. Photo credit goes to the lovely xugglybug. Enjoy![*] Yes, I'm a number geek. Why do you ask? (Actually, one of my nicknames -- based on tarot -- is the Knave of Numbers)
[**] Which still ranks as my favourite theatre experience ever... but has it really been a year and a half now? Oh, my!
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