Equivocation tonight?

[hpeabody930]

Posted: 2/10/10 at 10:12am

Is anyone going? I'm very curious to hear how this production is.

[hpeabody930]

Posted: 2/10/10 at 10:34pm

Bump. Anyone go?

[KChenowethfan]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 10:26am

I saw it on Saturday. I found it to be an interesting concept and certainly well-acted, but it could use some shaving off of its run time. It certainly won't be for everyone.

[FeelingElectric]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:19pm

I'm seeing it tonight. What's the run time?

[KChenowethfan]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:22pm

About 2 hours and 30 minutes, I think. I heard it was well over 3 hours in previous productions.

[hpeabody930]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 5:56pm

Yeah. It was about 2 hours and 50 minutes at OSF.

[FeelingElectric]

Posted: 2/19/10 at 2:07am

Just to let you know, it's now running 2:20. That's still about 15 minutes too long in my opinion.

[Shakespearean]

Posted: 2/19/10 at 10:58am

Just out of curiosity, do you feel the the 2:20 is too long because they ran out of material or kept extraneous material, or do you feel 2:20 is too long for plays in general? I'm not being catty, I'm genuinely interested because I have a play going up soon (off-off-B'way), coincidentally about Shakespeare's acting troupe shortly after his retirement. It runs about 2:20 with an intermission now and folks have suggested that that's too long for a play (any play) without having seen it. Looking at running times of plays vs. musicals, I do see a trend of plays getting shorter and shorter yet some people complain about musicals running less than 2:30. I guess, to me, I see it as delivering a good story as long as it needs to be, and hopefully the audience may feel they got their money's worth. Broadway play ticket prices for minutes seem like kind of a rip off to me. What do you guys think about lengths?

[FeelingElectric]

Posted: 2/19/10 at 5:10pm

I've seen great plays that were three hours long (Cymbeline and Macbeth come to mind), and great musicals that were 90 minutes long.

It's not that 2:20 is too long for a play to run, it just felt like Equivocation was dragging in several parts.