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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
Likes
Movies
Books
Writing
Theatre
Hugs
Kittens
Chess
Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Dislikes
Vegetables
Arguments
Cleaning
Trashy TV
Pretensions
Public Transport
Pets
Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
The BBC's The Taming of the Shrew was brilliant by the way - for those of you foolish enough to miss it. Plasticine Face (as shown in previous post) was predictably awful and pretty much ruined the character for me - but all of that was made up for by the rest of it. Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell were amazing in this thing - they really shined, and I think the script also shone most on this particular adaptation. I'd been really impressed with how much these "retellings" had stuck to the plot and character relationships of Shakespeare's stories - you get films like "Ten Things I Hate About You", which takes the basic premise and cleverly builds a new plot around it. All good and fun but not quite as impressive as adapting it from beginning to end. That was why I found the version of A Midsummer Night's Dream so bitterly disappointing.
I played Helena in this play way back when, but I still know the play backwards, so perhaps I might have felt the differences harder than others, but some things were SO different. The dynamic of the Courtiers shifted majorly - their knowledge of eachothers feelings/actions wiped out and instead replaced by "discoveries" about eachother. Plus the glorious fighting that takes place towards the end of the play was severly shaved - quite a feat considering the things was an hour and a half. Not to mention the cast being utterly dull (but this may be blamed on the script rather than the actors). The Fairies were also pretty much given an entirely new plot to play with - their motivations completely askew from the original. And don't get me bleedin started on the entirely new plot they gave to the Theseus/Hippolyta relationship. Of course it had its good points - the Workman stuff transferred quite nicely, and Johnny Vegas was great as Bottom, as were Titania and Oberon. And the sequence where Titania falls in love with Bottom was all done very nicely. The stuff between Theseus and Hippolyta was really nice at times but I couldn't stop getting annoyed that none of it was even close to what happens in the original. The script writer needs a proper slap for basically undoing what the rest had achieved in terms of adaptation. It's a shame it finished on a lower note for me - otherwise, I've been really enjoying them.
8:06 pm
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