things that are, things that were...
[jun 28 2005, 23:03]
i waited.
someone had once asked me whether episode iv was the death of letmebreathe.net. i answered no though i wasn't really sure.
now i tried. i let this thing lay around for some time and although nobody really seemed to care, i did. i just felt that some things need to be written down, published, told other people. and that some things just don't fit the perfectly clean world of episode iv.
so this is me - back.
and what better way to start a new era than to talk about something that has existed for almost ever: faust!
i'm just coming back from a staging in a school nearby and let me tell you that it was amazingly frustrating.
the actors were great. faust was good though a little too relaxed for my liking. mephisto was great though a little too restrained for my liking. gretchen was horribly amazing (she was played by a girl i used to know from our own theater projects and that amount of development in just two or three years is absolutely breathtaking). the rest was okay and didn't disturb the overall experience.
what did disturb the overall experience was the obvious lack of affection for the play. you could clearly notice the structure of their rehearsals just by looking at what they put on stage.
the first part, before the break, was really good. well-prepared, well-learned and just good to watch. while practising the second part they obviously noticed that it was (a) too much stuff for them to handle and (b) too difficult stuff for them to handle so they just started tossing things out, lines and scenes, so that in the end you had scenes of half a minute stacked up behind each other. and in addition to that, you could notice that they didn't really know what they were doing in said second part. i mean, even patrick and me as faust and mephisto were better in the scene 'wald und höhle' than these guys and it was not because of the fact that the scene was horribly crippled, it was because of the fact that they didn't understand the scene!
arrgh!
so, looking at the addition we see:
a half out of five points for stage and make up.
ten thousand out of five points for bravery
four out of five points for acting (in the first part)
minus a hundred out of five points for excessive hubris ('please write your suggestions on a euro note and give it to us')
minus a million out of five points for wasted chances.
a really annoying night. not bad, not disappointing, just annoying because of wasted potential.
harrgh!
charon
someone had once asked me whether episode iv was the death of letmebreathe.net. i answered no though i wasn't really sure.
now i tried. i let this thing lay around for some time and although nobody really seemed to care, i did. i just felt that some things need to be written down, published, told other people. and that some things just don't fit the perfectly clean world of episode iv.
so this is me - back.
and what better way to start a new era than to talk about something that has existed for almost ever: faust!
i'm just coming back from a staging in a school nearby and let me tell you that it was amazingly frustrating.
the actors were great. faust was good though a little too relaxed for my liking. mephisto was great though a little too restrained for my liking. gretchen was horribly amazing (she was played by a girl i used to know from our own theater projects and that amount of development in just two or three years is absolutely breathtaking). the rest was okay and didn't disturb the overall experience.
what did disturb the overall experience was the obvious lack of affection for the play. you could clearly notice the structure of their rehearsals just by looking at what they put on stage.
the first part, before the break, was really good. well-prepared, well-learned and just good to watch. while practising the second part they obviously noticed that it was (a) too much stuff for them to handle and (b) too difficult stuff for them to handle so they just started tossing things out, lines and scenes, so that in the end you had scenes of half a minute stacked up behind each other. and in addition to that, you could notice that they didn't really know what they were doing in said second part. i mean, even patrick and me as faust and mephisto were better in the scene 'wald und höhle' than these guys and it was not because of the fact that the scene was horribly crippled, it was because of the fact that they didn't understand the scene!
arrgh!
so, looking at the addition we see:
a half out of five points for stage and make up.
ten thousand out of five points for bravery
four out of five points for acting (in the first part)
minus a hundred out of five points for excessive hubris ('please write your suggestions on a euro note and give it to us')
minus a million out of five points for wasted chances.
a really annoying night. not bad, not disappointing, just annoying because of wasted potential.
harrgh!
charon