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Post by Rosie Alvarez on Apr 19, 2003 12:55:28 GMT 11
What are your fave plays? Mine is Shadowlands.
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Post by Tinechorwen on Apr 29, 2003 19:38:45 GMT 11
I haven’t heard of Shadowlands.  What’s it about? I guess some of my faves are A midsummers night’s dream, the Crucible, Death of a Salesman and I just saw the play Rusty Bugles…that was great. Ooh, Cosi is funny too, and my sister was involved in a production of the Real Inspector Hound, it’s absurdist drama which basically means it’s very very strange, but it was very enjoyable and funny. |
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Post by Buff on Apr 30, 2003 8:58:59 GMT 11
I really enjoy "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Noises Off". A couple of weeks ago, I saw a show (not really a play) where 5 actors did readings from the Court of England over the centuries, tracing the history of the monarchy. It's called "The Hollow Crown" - fantastic stuff. There wasn't alot of acting as such, but it was still great. Buff  |
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Post by Talissa on Apr 30, 2003 10:24:40 GMT 11
Is The Hollow Crown touring? It was playing at the theatre at my uni a couple of weeks ago. The play that's running at the Alex (theatre at uni) at the moment is The Christian Brothers, and it looks really interesting. I think it's only a cast of one, and it seems intriguing. I'd go if it wasn't running in my busiest time  It's starring Peter Carroll (the Governor from MoLM) ~Julia |
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Post by Buff on Apr 30, 2003 10:41:16 GMT 11
Is The Hollow Crown touring? It was playing at the theatre at my uni a couple of weeks ago. Yes it is. I believe it's going all round Australia....and even Tasmania  ;D Buff |
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Post by ghost on Apr 30, 2003 18:42:40 GMT 11
lol. I love shakespeare! He's cool. We're doing Romeo and JUliet next term and I read through it... IT IS PRACTICALLY HALF PORN!!!!!!!!! Wow. I like shakespeare. Though I doubt the rest of the class will get these "bawdy jests". Jheejhee. Me and Sailor willsimply have to snigger in silence at their ignorance and incompetence!!! Mwahahahaha!
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Post by Rosie Alvarez on May 2, 2003 12:44:43 GMT 11
Shadowlands is about C.S. Lewis's private life. It tells how he married a lady much younger than him, how she dies of cancer, and how he and her son deal with the grief. It's a really good show.
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Post by Lana on May 3, 2003 1:09:36 GMT 11
I saw 'Trelawney of the Wells' (which I probably spelled wrong) in Melbourne a few years ago and really loved it. Much Ado About Nothing is also great. Um... I really can't think of any more. Sure I've seen more plays I liked.. Oh well.
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Post by Tinechorwen on May 3, 2003 22:22:14 GMT 11
Yeah I know what you mean...I can never think of them off the top of my head.
Much ado about nothing is fantastic too, I love Beatrice, that would be a fantastic role to play! I also like Hamlet *gasp.* I know it's EXCESSIVELY long, but we studied it in lit and it truly is remarkable. Although I've seen the whole production, and while I did enjoy every moment of it, it was tad long.
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Post by ronniefairy on May 10, 2003 9:53:55 GMT 11
I've always love Pinter's "The Dumbwaiter"... Although some would class it as theatre of the absurd, it really falls into it's own category of theatre of menace. Throughout the play there's an implication of violence, but you don't actually see anything... And the ending is great....
And of course you can't forget Shakespeare, I've never been a big fan of Romeo and Juliet, but I adore Hamlet.
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Post by Hannah on May 18, 2003 21:50:59 GMT 11
I love Hamlet as well Eowyn! I studied it last eyar for my HSC, then I did a theatre review on it this year for theatre, AND I'm also studying it at the moment for english ;D I should be sick of it, but it keeps growing on me each time I study/see it...
I love Shakespeare! Absolute fan! I managed to convince an english lecturer to let me do the Shakespeare english course for second uni session this year, because they're not gonna offer it and I really, really, really want to do it! ;D
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Post by Valentin on May 19, 2003 20:49:10 GMT 11
At the moment, I'm really into the two I am doing - Midsummer Night's Dream and an excellent British theatre-of-the-bizarre called Was He Anyone - 'tis muchos funny |
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Post by Tinechorwen on May 20, 2003 23:03:03 GMT 11
Everytime I say I like Hamlet and Shakespeare I get, at the very least, strange looks, or just whacked depending on how well I know the person. So I’m glad there’s another Shakespeare nerd out there. Hamlet is such a cool play, they could do a very interesting modern version of that, speaking of which, I really want to see ‘O’, although it’s been out for ages I’ve been lazy and just not got it. I think Hamlet is so interesting because there is no limit as to how deep you can go into the play, we studied it in year 11 literature which I think was a bit young to be doing Hamlet. Even so it was great, I rented out the Kenneth Braughan (sp?) version which is the ENTIRE thing…very long! I saw it live once as well where the script hadn’t been edited, I had a sore bum by the end of the play, sitting in that chair for so long, but the guy playing Hamlet was an excellent actor so it was okay. |
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Post by nadine on Jun 30, 2003 21:40:30 GMT 11
I have a few favourite plays.
At the moment my three favourites are Proof, The Seagull and Six Degrees of Separation.
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Post by ronniefairy on Jul 3, 2003 19:47:01 GMT 11
I should also add that I love Titus Andronicus (shakespeare's bloodiest play)... And Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the Aussie play Love Child...
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What’s it about?
It's starring Peter Carroll (the Governor from MoLM)
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