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ITS TIEM

uuhh, i liked the play :) yay.

3:06 am... play review time!

The first impression of the play was given by the 3 girls in the chairs. Throughout the play i noticed that these 3 women where not characters, but rather feelings. I forgot the name of the type os theatre this was... but it was a kind of greek theatre in which actors do not represent characters, but feelings, or virtues/characteristics, whatever you wanna call them. They also served as narrators, additional characters, and abstract thinking (... at least that is how i like to name it). They are flat characters though, as they do not change parallel to the development of the play, but rather do different roles which do not change. Adding to this, they were also the backstage, in the way that they moved the props and scenery. But not only that... they were ALSO part of the scenery. In my opinion... the best part and most important of the play. For example, when Filoctetes was standing on the middle of the stage and the 3 women were doing some loop movements like dancing around him which game a very cool and impressive look visually, you would not get the same impression if they wouldn't be there. The bow. oooh the freaking bow... i bet half of the audience questioned themselves "WHY IS SHE CARRYING THE BOW? THAT MAKES NO SENSE" because... it was not really explicit that the women were not characters, it was not explicit that they did not exist. well... they did exist, they were just... not there. But anyhow... the vision by the director seemed to me very concrete. And he definitely saw these three women as much more use than a simple chorus... which i reckon was their original purpose on stage.

Odysseus...he sucks. I did not like how he acts... he... is... boring. I noticed him using the Awkward hands WAY TOO MUCH. it was pathetic. Shame on him, he sucks. He walked like a normal person. his face expression was stupid, and his movements had no purpose and were meaningless.


There was a lot of subtext involved in the script parts for Filoctetes and Neoptolemo. I personally liked how they performed their characters and was well worth it going to see this play. Uhhh they were well into character. the walking, the reactions, the voice, the subtext... blah blah etc pim puf paf. You could see how Filoctetes (no se que Isola i think was the actor) had worked on how his wound affected his character; physically and internally. although yes, he sometimes seemed to have forgotten COMPLETELY about his feet. like once he sat on the floor and placed his body weight on top of his wounded foot... uuhmm WTF YOUR FUCKING FOOT IS BLEEDING. ARE YOU A BLOODY RETARD OF SOME SHIT LIKE THAT? but still... apart from that little stupid flaw... it went well and flowed with ease, he did not seem very concerned, he seemed to have gotten into character very... deeply. stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp i summon you fire god or whatever, i think he could had found a better action for "summoning" the god.... instead of stomping the floor. But well...moving on

Neoptolemo had the ONE prop which was completely useless... the HELMET. yeah... it was useless and stupid. He wore it at the beginning for no real good reason... just to take it off and leave it there. They should had bought some arrows instead... where were the arrows? low on budget? THEN DON'T BUY A USELESS HELMET BLOODY HELL. But ok... i can handle it. that was ok, at least it looked decent. He was the most dynamic character in the play, and hell he was dynamic, his subtext work was hardcore...he could had mastered it more though, but it was pretty harsh so i will give it to him this time... (so strict... too many theatre classes) AAANYWAYS i liked how when his characters was confused or changing he had some slow motion seizure of some sort in which the upper part of his body moved freakishly around the chorus women. But it was understandable... and freed them from having no actions as Filoctetes spoke.

Costumes were fine... they were really cool, and i saw the concept behind, which the dry colors of the costumes contrasted with the dresses of the chorus to differentiate reality from abstract ideas in the play. Odysseus had white... white was not part of the concept in costumes to the extent that i could perceive... and anyhow, he sucks... so who cares. he can wear whatever he wants for all i care...

The projecting wasn't really necessary... but did help with the atmosphere a little bit. It was ok, could had worked without it, but it worked with it, so what the hell, why not. I really liked the play. The ideas in the chorus verses were really good philosophical questioning that made me start thinking a lot about greek minds...

OH YEAH... the music was PERFECT, it went INCREDIBLY well with the concept and the atmosphere. specially with the rhythm of the play and actions. ALTHOUUGH there was a sound effect went the smoke appeared that was really annoying and stupid... and did not fit the concept. but was magical and godly and shit so why not... i have noticed i use too many bad words in blogs... I SHALL USE LESS... and apologize for the ones i said before. FUCK YEAH... i mean... INDEED.

Well i really don't remember much more so i have nothing else to say.
okthxbye

By the way... this is a play review more than a blog entry so no final question right?