Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Acting and things update
Welly not too much to report the now, except for on the Patter Merchant front things have gotten into gear as the rehearsals have started and its early days as we've only had one so far (the second is tomorrow night) but things should start taking shape nicely as we progress.
On another note I'm still doing Iain McAleese's classes, which I've quite enjoyed so far, although the choice of plays have been a bit unusual this time, with MacBeth, which to be honest I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare, however this week we covered Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit which was very enjoyable to do (with Ann who has come back to the class, doing a grand job as the ghostly mischievious Elvira) and next week we shall cover Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, which as a play I liked but it left me somewhat disturbed. The Homecoming is definitely quite a shocking play for its time and I did like it but the characters in it are quite repellant and its hard to empathise with any of them, the end of the play also left me a bit disturbed and in a state of disbelief (PLOT SPOILER!! The character Ruth who is married with 3 kids to Terry one of the family's brothers, decides at the end to go on the game and work for the family out of the blue!). Perhaps though the state of disbelief is Pinter was after with this one. Anyway that's for next week, so we'll see how it goes.
On another note I'm still doing Iain McAleese's classes, which I've quite enjoyed so far, although the choice of plays have been a bit unusual this time, with MacBeth, which to be honest I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare, however this week we covered Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit which was very enjoyable to do (with Ann who has come back to the class, doing a grand job as the ghostly mischievious Elvira) and next week we shall cover Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, which as a play I liked but it left me somewhat disturbed. The Homecoming is definitely quite a shocking play for its time and I did like it but the characters in it are quite repellant and its hard to empathise with any of them, the end of the play also left me a bit disturbed and in a state of disbelief (PLOT SPOILER!! The character Ruth who is married with 3 kids to Terry one of the family's brothers, decides at the end to go on the game and work for the family out of the blue!). Perhaps though the state of disbelief is Pinter was after with this one. Anyway that's for next week, so we'll see how it goes.
# posted by kenny @ 6:31 pm 
