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Diane Lane Will Return to Broadway This Fall in Stephen Karam's Adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD
#25Diane Lane Will Return to Broadway This Fall in Stephen Karam's Adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Posted: 7/8/16 at 2:41pm
So I have to ask, what's everyone's problem with Tavi Gevinson????
#26Diane Lane Will Return to Broadway This Fall in Stephen Karam's Adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Posted: 7/8/16 at 2:44pm
Tavi was exceptional in THE CRUCIBLE. I can't wait to see her in this.
#27Diane Lane Will Return to Broadway This Fall in Stephen Karam's Adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Posted: 7/8/16 at 2:45pm
I don't understand the hate Gevinson gets around here. I liked her in THIS IS OUR YOUTH and thought she was one of the best parts of THE CRUCIBLE. Perhaps some are jealous that, given her prior notoriety, she's been able to break into acting so easily.
#28Diane Lane Will Return to Broadway This Fall in Stephen Karam's Adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Posted: 7/8/16 at 2:48pm
I'd never heard of her before THIS IS OUR YOUTH.
But this article is very dismissive -
http://www.vulture.com/2016/07/tavi-gevinson-to-star-in-the-cherry-orchard.html
#29Diane Lane Will Return to Broadway This Fall in Stephen Karam's Adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Posted: 7/8/16 at 3:00pm
Mr. Nowack said: "So I have to ask, what's everyone's problem with Tavi Gevinson????"
I thought she was terribly one note in This Is Our Youth, and I found her grating. The performance, to my eyes and ears, was shouty and not at all grounded in reality, and I felt Kieran Culkin and Michael Cera both outshone her.
In The Crucible, she gave essentially the same performance, though it was slightly less grating there. Her posture is also AWFUL which to me is unacceptable for a theater actor.
#30Diane Lane Will Return to Broadway This Fall in Stephen Karam's Adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Posted: 7/8/16 at 4:25pm
I don't understand what's so "inexplicable" or "ass-hole"-ish about widespread dislike for a particular actor. As others have said, I found her performance in This is Our Youth to be extremely unpleasant. Everyone I know who saw her in that disliked her performance as well. The idea that people's criticisms of Tavi is a result of jealousy is laughable. Is it really that plausible that such a large number of people would express negative feelings about her performance just because we are all jealous of her?
Having said all of that, I did actually enjoy her performance in The Crucible.
romain2
Featured Actor Joined: 12/16/10
#31Diane Lane Will Return to Broadway This Fall in Stephen Karam's Adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Posted: 7/9/16 at 12:57pm
I like Tavi a lot as an actress. She was quite good in the film Please Give. I caught This Is Our Youth at Steppenwolf and she was extremely good, captivating. To be honest, I thought she gave one of the very best performances in The Crucible, a production I found disappointing despite some of the artsy experimental touches. The scene where she becomes possessed was an incredible piece of physical acting. I bet she more than holds her own in Cherry Orchard.
romain2
Featured Actor Joined: 12/16/10
#32Diane Lane Will Return to Broadway This Fall in Stephen Karam's Adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Posted: 7/9/16 at 1:04pm
perfectlymarvelous wrote: I thought she was terribly one note in This Is Our Youth, and I found her grating. The performance, to my eyes and ears, was shouty
I saw her in This Is Our Youth at Steppenwolf in their upstairs space, which is smaller and intimate. She wasn't shouty and grating there at all. But I did hear that about her performance after the show moved to Broadway.
Could it be the director's fault? Anna D. Shapiro is a very fine director in smaller venues, but when I saw Mother****er with a Hat on Broadway I was stunned by the amount of shouting on that Broadway stage (EDIT: I didn't censor the title BTW, the administrators did). Bobby Cannavale was practically bursting a neck vein he was shouting so loud. Only Annabella Sciorra seemed to have any delicacy in her performance. The other actors sounded hoarse. Also, Shapiro has a tendency to have her actors march on through laugh lines, shouting over the audience members as they laugh.
I thought in The Crucible Tavi gave the kind of grounded performance I saw her give in Youth in that smaller space.
belrowley
Understudy Joined: 5/14/16
#33Diane Lane Will Return to Broadway This Fall in Stephen Karam's Adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Posted: 7/10/16 at 2:28am
perfectlymarvelous said: "In The Crucible, she gave essentially the same performance, though it was slightly less grating there. Her posture is also AWFUL which to me is unacceptable for a theater actor."
You're free to dislike her performance, but I'm really confused by the last sentence. What does posture have to do with being a theater actor? There isn't a set "thespian posture." Actors should carry themselves in whatever way the role calls for.
To be fair, I haven't seen This Is Our Youth, but I thought Tavi carried herself fine in The Crucible. Mary Warren is a scared servant, and she's cowering in a corner half the time. It would have been bizarre if she were strutting around with regal bearing.
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