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Post by leyla11 on Apr 20, 2012 6:24:45 GMT -5
Sorry I lost track of all the links I posted and where I posted them! Ah, old age  |
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Post by thehyacinthgirl on Apr 21, 2012 1:51:00 GMT -5
If possible, last night's was even more amazing than the night before. Thomas is truly evocative and heartbreaking. I'd love to go again today but just don't have the money  My dear other half, a person who just doesn't do this sort of thing, is 'fangirling' Cillian and Enda Walsh pretty hard. Hes reading things into scenes and moments. He tore that single negative article to pieces because the journo was factually wrong. Showed he didn't understand. "And fair enough, even if he didn't like the play does the acting not deserve more?" I've never known him like this about anything!! He's even talking about Cillian's hair, FFS. His haircut at the minute is perfect. He really looks amazing, beard or not. Like a boyish little thing with bright, bright eyes. Row F, in some ways, was better than Row A. God, that was stunning. |
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Post by leyla11 on Apr 21, 2012 5:49:11 GMT -5
Hyacinth, thanks for sharing! I still haven't told my other half that we're going to London in May and this time he's coming with me.....
I don't know how he would react. He loves theatre, but he probably thinks I'm weird. He likes Cillian, though he has this annoying habit of butchering his name on purpose, calling him "Chil-lian" (that's how it would be pronounced in Italian) just to hear me say "love, it's pronounced Kil-lian".
Anyway, Misterman should be definitely watched twice...
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Post by thehyacinthgirl on Apr 21, 2012 7:58:05 GMT -5
It's killing me knowing if I had the money I could be going again in half an hour. It's that good.
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Post by leyla11 on Apr 21, 2012 8:43:49 GMT -5
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Post by thehyacinthgirl on Apr 21, 2012 9:52:46 GMT -5
The funniest thing was the elderly ladies standing around afterwards talking about his high cheekbones and wonderful face. So posh as well. Hardly a review but amusing.
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Post by leyla11 on Apr 21, 2012 10:14:20 GMT -5
I guess this is something even the elderly ladies can appreciate  though it would not be my first thought after Misterman! |
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Post by hotfuzz on Apr 21, 2012 11:44:08 GMT -5
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Post by wikkleshamrocks on Apr 21, 2012 19:30:04 GMT -5
Hey thanks for the link Hot Fuzz! Welcome to the forum!  Well I keep checking Twitter and it's on fire with good tweets about Misterman! Yey! ;D |
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Post by thehyacinthgirl on Apr 22, 2012 5:22:46 GMT -5
Oh, it really was amazing. I knew it'd be good but it was ten times better than I expected. It's haunting me. It's blisteringly funny at times yet suffocatingly sad at others. Thomas is such a winning character. He's so moving. You kind of fall in love with him a little bit. During the platform talk Enda said that he wanted people to bond with the character because he's all we have. He describes him as a very very positive character despite everything and he is. He really is. He's got this joyous innocence to him and you so badly, badly want to run up on that stage and hug him. I can see what that review means about the 'soliloquys' - whilst I enjoyed them they can be a bit wordy  Sometimes its prose-like rather than speech-like but I think that's just Thomas. It's just in his nature and character. The Daily Mail article could not be more wrong. It really couldn't. I know everyone are entitled to their own opinion but, LOL, that opinion is just wrong. It makes no sense. |
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Post by leyla11 on Apr 22, 2012 5:49:09 GMT -5
I think the Daily Mail was in bad faith. They wrote that article on purpose. It's not the first time they publish such utter rubbish just to dispute. Let's face it, the Daily Mail isn't exactly an accomplished newspaper....they do what they can to be relevant....by dissing something they do not even understand. Well, we're lucky they seem to be the only ones playing this trick.
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Post by thehyacinthgirl on Apr 22, 2012 6:58:40 GMT -5
They like to be controversial, lets say, but he couldn't be more wrong. There's an underlying 'tone' that the playwright is pretentious and sees himself as something he's not but that could not be further than the truth. I thought he was wonderfully charming. He apologised for not being articulate and 'for keeping you all here for so long' but he's lovely. Some of the questions people asked him were ridiculous and pretentious and he took them all in good faith and humour.
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Post by leyla11 on Apr 22, 2012 7:04:18 GMT -5
I've seen little of Enda's work, namely Disco Pigs (just the movie), Hunger and of course Misterman, but from this small sample of his work I got the idea that 1) he's an amazing writer 2) he's not pretentious at all. If anything, he's completely crazy. In a good way 3) I'd love to see more of his work The Daily Mail review completely missed the point, I doubt they understood much of the play |
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Post by thehyacinthgirl on Apr 22, 2012 8:33:14 GMT -5
Am still writing my review. I'll post it when I have finished. It's odd because the second time seemed different to the first. It felt more emotional somehow. There is a moment with Mammy and I was so close to tears but the first night I hadn't been. It's strange.
But yeah, I will reiterate what I said before about the dialect. If you aren't a native speaker there are a couple of 'roles' that might catch you out. I can tell you which parts to read which won't give too much away if you'd like. Let me know.
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Post by wikkleshamrocks on Apr 22, 2012 9:55:52 GMT -5
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though it would not be my first thought after Misterman!
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