Cyberclogs

I'm combining two things in this post, first up: I'm just back from seeing a play which I went along to with some of my acting class crowd, the play was Under the Elms, written by the late American playwright Eugene O'Neill. It was set back in the old west and was essentially about three brothers (at first) who own a farm, but then two of them sell of the farm to the Dad and his new beautiful young bride, but the younger, weaker willed son, falls for her and they soon have an affair and, well, it gets messy from there.

Unfortunately I couldn't get into this play at all, as the characters just didn't interest me or engage me in any way (especially the two brothers at the start, I just couldn't wait for them to leave the stage!). And some of the acting was pretty poor in places, especially when it came to breaking down in tears acting something they young guy didn't do too well, although the girl managed a lot better in that department. I guess it must be difficult to convey raw emotions on stage convincingly even if you are a professional actor. But another fault of the play was some of the dialogue, which reeked of corniness, especially the way the actors kept yelling "Carliforn-IA" all the time, which got pretty annoying, and the Mills and Boon effective level of love talk "I love you, I want you to kiss me, hold me, and let it last a thousand years!" etc etc. Pass the sick bag please.

To be fair the actors were pretty professional, I just don't know if it was a mixture of the dialogue and the characters that they were portraying that just didn't ring true or seem believable, or what. But I wouldn't recommend going to see this play, and none of my fellow acting chums would either I think.

Secondly: on a more positive note I will be seeing the Foo Fighters on Friday at the SECC, which I'm sure will rock like mad (I expect a fully ringing pair of ears by Saturday morning). Thankfully the show is still on, as I was a bit mislead by the billboard posters round Glasgow of the Foos gig, which said "cancelled" on it. Which it turned out was a ploy from the City Council to stop billboard posters from being put up, but hardly seems fair to put a false sense of insecurity on people who have bought tickets for an event. Anywaysss, the Foos will come, rock and conquer on Friday, and I'll probably leave a review of it on Saturday, if I'm able to.