After three heavy ones, we thought we'd go for something with a few guaranteed laughs...
- School for Scandal at the Abbey
- http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whatson/scandal.html
- Thursday 18th January
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Monday, January 1, 2007
Anna Karenina
In keeping with tradition, and via a poll of 6 of us (less Eoin and De, I think), we came up with a rating of... ... ... 3.5 (as made no difference)!..
I thought it was (guess what, Eoin!) intriguing, but ultimately didn't engage. I was expecting a tragic but moral heroine, but by the end she just seemed childish and petulant. The production then relied for effect on stamping of feet, bright lights, an obvious Death.
I was thinking, too, that a play is not a place for musical motifs. But then, what's to become of Grieg's music for Peer Gynt?
Look what I found here...
...and now, triva time!.. the music.
- Alexi's theme: music by Zbigniew Preisner for Trois Couleurs: Bleu
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108394/
- Seriozha's theme: Spiegel im Spiegel, Arvo Part
- A bit of Gorecki's Symphony No.3 crept in towards the end
- Anyone know the dancing tunes?
So now... pipes in hand, matches at the ready!..
I thought it was (guess what, Eoin!) intriguing, but ultimately didn't engage. I was expecting a tragic but moral heroine, but by the end she just seemed childish and petulant. The production then relied for effect on stamping of feet, bright lights, an obvious Death.
I was thinking, too, that a play is not a place for musical motifs. But then, what's to become of Grieg's music for Peer Gynt?
Look what I found here...
...and now, triva time!.. the music.
- Alexi's theme: music by Zbigniew Preisner for Trois Couleurs: Bleu
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108394/
- Seriozha's theme: Spiegel im Spiegel, Arvo Part
- A bit of Gorecki's Symphony No.3 crept in towards the end
- Anyone know the dancing tunes?
So now... pipes in hand, matches at the ready!..
For the love of God...
...turn off your mobile phones. And now, welcome to ThreePointFiveStars. .!
When I came back from Holland, a group of us organised to go to a play in the Dublin Theatre Festival... over drinks afterwards, we agreed "three and a half stars", and yeah, let's do this again. We've been to three so far - the Alice Trilogy, Doubt and Anna Karenina - and each time, we came up with... three and a half stars. You can't argue tradition.
When I came back from Holland, a group of us organised to go to a play in the Dublin Theatre Festival... over drinks afterwards, we agreed "three and a half stars", and yeah, let's do this again. We've been to three so far - the Alice Trilogy, Doubt and Anna Karenina - and each time, we came up with... three and a half stars. You can't argue tradition.
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