tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post3239423037145831592..comments2024-03-17T05:07:13.710-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: The tormenting doubt of everything - Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening - I warm myself in my rotting decay and smileAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-87585034940241493542011-11-09T22:04:50.291-06:002011-11-09T22:04:50.291-06:00Yes, sounds like Rent. The parts of the songs I m...Yes, sounds like <i>Rent</i>. The parts of the songs I made it through sounded very much like <i>Rent</i>.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-31857826393948265752011-11-09T21:47:35.527-06:002011-11-09T21:47:35.527-06:00Ugh, sounds like Rent or something!Ugh, sounds like Rent or something!nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17532641082944082516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-44520041077278490032011-11-08T21:53:45.544-06:002011-11-08T21:53:45.544-06:00Ah, I would love to see a real production. So man...Ah, I would love to see a real production. So many possibilities, in scene, pace, style of acting. You could switch, too, from scene to scene.<br /><br />The Broadway show - and bear in mind that anything I say is based on 1) Wikipedia and 2) a single attempt to listen to the cast recording, or as much of it as I could stand, this morning - the show trimmed back most of the weirdness and alienation, for example deleting The Masked Man. It looks like a self-congratulation session - we are now oh so sophisticated about contraception, etc, unlike these poor repressed saps. In the end "everyone assembles onstage to sing 'The Song of Purple Summer' about life and hope." Mmm hmm.<br /><br />Caroline, you have me curious about <i>Mine Haha</i> now. Someday, soon I hope, I will read Wedekind (& Hauptmann & their contemporaries) in more depth.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-43024336174031731042011-11-08T21:38:08.313-06:002011-11-08T21:38:08.313-06:00the plays are kin, in subject, in audacity, and in...<em>the plays are kin, in subject, in audacity, and in their destruction of the clichés of the theater.</em><br /><br />How bizarre. And it goes on to be a Broadway hit! I see a future here for Jarry ;)nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17532641082944082516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-13815295117756364822011-11-08T11:11:17.725-06:002011-11-08T11:11:17.725-06:00It's one of my favourite plays and I've re...It's one of my favourite plays and I've read it more than once, I only deplore I've never seen it. Wedekind wrote an interesting companion Mine Haha, a novella that isn't any less intriguing. It's even available in English which did surprise me as hardly anyone reads in in German anymore.Carolinehttp://beautyisasleepingcat.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com