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Re: Gheeghee,
I was very into Lovecraft when I was young and impressionable. It makes much less impression now. I think there is a kind of window for appreciation of some things.
posted by
Ciel
on January 12, 2015 at 8:41 AM
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Re: Wiley,
Apparently, that's the very thing that spelled the end of the Theatre du Grand Guignol, where it all began: Belsen.
posted by
Ciel
on January 12, 2015 at 8:39 AM
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Not my style, but interesting to read the post and your involvement in it's creation.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 12, 2015 at 3:47 AM
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Hi Ciel, good to see you...
I'd be interested to see how the play does. I've been threatening to start getting into Lovecraft. I have a collection of his work, but just haven't made it a priority.
posted by
Gheeghee
on January 11, 2015 at 11:11 PM
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Re: Annicita,
It is a different mindset, as far as format expressing what's in your mind's eye, but I find it easy enough to slip into. In some ways, it's easier being somewhat less lyrical, though some playwrites have been quite lovely in stage directions.
One thing about the recent trends, there is less direction written in, and more trust of the director and actors to interpret.
posted by
Ciel
on January 11, 2015 at 10:26 AM
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how great for you to be able to edit a play! I've been thinking about converting at least 2 of my short stories into plays....I plan on doing that while on the road
posted by
Annicita
on January 11, 2015 at 10:09 AM
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Ciel
I'm not much into horror actually, too much in real life. LOL
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 10, 2015 at 6:33 PM
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The fact that the genre is horror intrigues me.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 10, 2015 at 4:43 AM
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No one will hold my hand so I couldn't go. I have been scared too much by old films in my boyhood innocence. I don't mind comedy horror, but I guess that is really tough to do well. Good luck though I expect you will help make it work if anyone can. Now if it was 'Heat' I might pull out all the plugs.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 9, 2015 at 10:45 AM
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Re: Pat,
So true! I am delighted to have been asked, and hope to be drawn into the whole thing further.
She is writing this for a series of three or four Lovecraft-based short plays which is already announced for some time in March at the Theatre d'Arte, a local, very experimental-material little theater. They are the ones who presented a play based on Milton's PARADISE LOST and presented Adam and Eve in the nude, as was entirely honest, true to the tale, and gutsy. They also produced that devised performance A TEMPESTUOUS NOISE, that Charlie was in as Prospero.
posted by
Ciel
on January 9, 2015 at 6:08 AM
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Re: Pat,
I think the Monster in FRANKENSTEIN never was the doctor's creation... I also felt more for Boris Karloff's creature than for anyone else in that film.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN... that helped clear things up!
posted by
Ciel
on January 9, 2015 at 6:02 AM
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Re: Kabu,
I have never appreciated gore for its own sake, and suspense gives me the runs... But to be really moved by anything, that's cool! When I went to that Poe show, there was another alongside it, THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER, which was a dark absurdist sort of comedy. Traditionally, Grand Guignol presents a funny one with a grim one, sort of see-saws the audience's emotions. That one, however, was more shocking and disgusting that moving. Still, there are shocks that make us question what we let ourselves be shocked by, and that can get us moving in a useful direction.
posted by
Ciel
on January 9, 2015 at 5:59 AM
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my poor memory - I meant congrats to the first-time playwright for
coming up with good work, I hope it gets polished to presentation level and gets good audience response! Must be fun for you to be involved in the "birth" process.
posted by
Pat_B
on January 9, 2015 at 2:42 AM
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I never much enjoyed horror - especially gory slasher stuff.
I understand the desire to shock - to say or do something for effect. Frankenstein was about as close as I got to appreciating that genre, at least the comic versions of it, but I always identified with the poor monster.
posted by
Pat_B
on January 9, 2015 at 2:39 AM
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I am not sure I would go to see a play like that....no I am not weak kneed,,,old nurses tend to have seen it all, but I prefer to be challenged by a play,,,,
posted by
Kabu
on January 8, 2015 at 6:33 PM
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