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High-functioning Werewolf
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 Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:39 am
Has anybody ever seen (or participated in) a play where it wasn't really done in the style it's most traditionally done in?
I bring it up because I recently came back from KC-ACTF and saw some really cool things in the tech room that people have done with sets and costumes that really just aren't typical, but for some reason really work. I.E. an old west version of Taming of the Shrew, a near-future version of The Crucible (was REALLY cool and I think won some awards), a sort of punkish Threepenny Opera, etc.
Anyone care to share their experiences, ideas, sketches?
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:25 pm
I've seen that sort of stuff quite a bit. o.o But our school is known for challenging styles. ^^
We recently did a 18oos New Orleans version of Midsummer Night's Dream.
We're doing "Why, Love" right now which is a collage of Brechtian stuff (including Three Penny Opera) which is very surreal.
We're gonna be the first people to EVER perform "The Catch" in Canada. *is excited*
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:59 pm
My school is about to do a Baroque opera (something something Poppea) that they are going to do in 1930's glamour/Hollywood style (which I've heard was done to an opera recently in LA, which my friend said was very interesting and good). Then we are doing Pericles, which I wouldn't be surprised if it were changed.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:25 pm
A theatre I do a lot of stuff at would do everything Commedia dell'Arte style, if they could get away with it.
Oh, and my school just finished Much Ado About Nothing set at a university in the 50's.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:21 pm
I saw a version of A Midsummers Night Dream done in the style of the yuppie 80s (upper class, so there were no leg warmers or big hair doos, thank goodness). But apperently setting Shakespeare somewhere else isn't that unsual. I've heard it being done with Moliere as well.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:46 pm
thelovelyLIZ I saw a version of A Midsummers Night Dream done in the style of the yuppie 80s (upper class, so there were no leg warmers or big hair doos, thank goodness). But apperently setting Shakespeare somewhere else isn't that unsual. I've heard it being done with Moliere as well. Oh, yeah! I love how mutable Shakespeare is. In fact, they did Hamlet at Wittenberg college a while ago and set it in the modern day. That made me happy. mrgreen
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