re naked macbeth- Page 2
re naked macbeth
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#25so amused
Posted: 9/22/05 at 2:23pmIs this a dagger I see before me?
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Lizziemonster
Understudy Joined: 9/8/05
#26so amused
Posted: 9/23/05 at 4:17am
Toby2 and NYCMonk
My quesiton
"Out of interest....what purpose?"
Was not a negative, I just wanted to know, just interested in someone else interpretation, as I have said everything I hve seen so far as either been in the traditional style or not very imaginative
#27so amused
Posted: 9/23/05 at 4:31amwhen and where is it? cause I would love to see it!
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
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~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
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~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
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toby2
Swing Joined: 9/19/05
#29so amused
Posted: 9/23/05 at 2:18pm
Nycmonk, I think your posting totally backs up a lot of the negative hubub about this production:
'look, i'm no idiot. i know how to sell a show. naked? macbeth? brilliant!'
'actors in an uncomfortably small theatre with occasional nudity and a bit of man on man lip action'
From an outsider's point of view, it just seems like this production is more about the shock value, and finding a concept whose purpose is just to be "shocking and different"; thus making the production about justifying the "concept".
I swear I'm not trying to be snarky, but I'm just trying to understand where you are coming from.
nycmonk
Swing Joined: 9/22/05
#30alas...
Posted: 9/23/05 at 10:30pmi've been told my shame can be found lying on the corner of 42nd and 8th, next to a chalk outline of my integrity. oh, and you can get tickets here: http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/115600
toby2
Swing Joined: 9/19/05
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#32alas...
Posted: 9/25/05 at 5:37am
Lizziemonster - Sorry for the delay. I have seen some real 'out there' version of the Bards work. And I don't mean basic stuff like 'A Mid-Summers Night Dream' set in a disco (which I actually admit was kinda fun, even if completely high school).
When I say 'out there' I really mean people who have taken the Bards work and really twisted them around to give off their own political message for the most part. ie 'Romeo and Juliet' now becoming a mouth piece for racism, or 'The Taming of the Shrew' becoming a piece on feminism. Basically using the 'name' of the play to sell tickets for their own interests and ideas that don't have little or anything to do with the original work.
Thus Naked Boys being faithful to the play MacBeth is rather 'normal' for me.
Funny we should be talking about clothing because I don't see the clothing (or lack there of) as a gimmick, myself. When Shakespeare staged his plays, they were performed in contemporary clothing. (See the reference to sleeves in Julius Caesar.) They were always performed in contemporary dress until Victorian times, IIRC.
Example, when Ian McKellen was filming his adaption of "Richard III" (great adaption of what is arguably my favorite Drama), well, judging from what he's said and written, Ian McKellen likes to perform in modern dress - or as close to modern dress as possible - because that's how the plays were meant to be performed.
Ian wrote on his website that he decided to set this play in the 1930s because he wanted to get as close to modern dress as possible, so he asked himself, what was the latest period in which this story could reasonably have happened in Britain. His answer was the 1930s.
When you see a play in modern (or close-to-modern) dress, you get information about the characters from their clothing: their socioeconomic status, sometimes their profession, the formality of the situation they're in, how well they fit in with their surroundings... The average person won't get that information from period clothing. So in my mind it isn't that great a leap of logic from contemporary clothing to no clothing at all. Yes we see willies but that excitment doesn't even last past Act 1, Scene 2, after that you focus on the show, which I assume, without its clothing would be forced to show those naunces and small details of the play, and let the words come to life.
toby2
Swing Joined: 9/19/05
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
Lizziemonster
Understudy Joined: 9/8/05
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