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cebrail posted:Even the main emotion vs. academia debate seemed a bit trite to me. I guess that's more a problem with the piece itself than with the format. Yeah, I think there may be a fair bit of this that works better in a play format because you can't pause and think about it -- it's just quip-quip-quip-quip and the fact that, say, fractals and chaos theory are different things, gets papered over by the movement of the presentation, because you only have so much time to think about any one thing before the next set of things is happening.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, I think there may be a fair bit of this that works better in a play format because you can't pause and think about it -- it's just quip-quip-quip-quip and the fact that, say, fractals and chaos theory are different things, gets papered over by the movement of the presentation, because you only have so much time to think about any one thing before the next set of things is happening. although i think the "precocious person invents things before their time" is done better here than in the r&g screenplay where stoppard has rosencrantz discover like newtonian physics and hamburgers during the longer monologues
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It just isn't postmodernism if it doesn't misexplain and then draw the wrong conclusions from basic 20th C. science. Fake edit: To be less pithy, R&G is awesome but I can't imagine trying to read it, or seeing it without a decent memory of Hamlet. I had the same thought here: Who is this play for? People who know who Byron is, and have a casual interest in science but don't really understand math, who will see a play about academics in the '90s instead of a movie... is the intended audience liberal arts PhDs?
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Nov 23, 2018 01:19
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who on earth would see a play instead of a movie
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I read R&G before seeing it performed and I think it works really well on paper, especially the "unicorn speech" which may be the best thing he's ever written I also played Guil (or was it Ros?  ) in high school and my god that was even more fun than playing nick bottom in midsummer was
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Need suggestions for next month. Christmas-themed is optional but not mandatory.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Need suggestions for next month. Christmas-themed is optional but not mandatory. How about "The Chimes" or "The Haunted Man and the Ghost", both by Charles Dickens. Dickens wrote 5 Christmas/holiday novellas, and A Christmas Carol is the most well-known, despite being the first one written. Both are readily available and under 200 pages, if I'm not mistaken. They also fit within your theme for the year.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Need suggestions for next month. Christmas-themed is optional but not mandatory. The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin. It’s a weird little book with enough post-apocalyptic weirdness to keep the genre side of TBB interested but also a very clever pastiche of the Russian classics set in the icy wastes of Siberia. It’s on Kindle BTW
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin. It’s a weird little book with enough post-apocalyptic weirdness to keep the genre side of TBB interested but also a very clever pastiche of the Russian classics set in the icy wastes of Siberia. It’s on Kindle BTW This sounds cool as heck so I went ahead and put it on hold regardless of if it gets picked
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Franchescanado posted:How about "The Chimes" or "The Haunted Man and the Ghost", both by Charles Dickens. Dickens wrote 5 Christmas/holiday novellas, and A Christmas Carol is the most well-known, despite being the first one written. Both are readily available and under 200 pages, if I'm not mistaken. They also fit within your theme for the year. Right now I'm thinking these two plus carol for a dickens holiday medley. Nobody ever reads anything but Carol so spreading out to the other titles will be interesting, and it'll give me an excuse to read them too.
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The Alzabo Soup podcast nerds do an excellent recap / analysis of Arcadia here. I actually hadn't heard of the play before listening to their episodes and still feel like I enjoyed Arcadia more than a handful of other productions I've been to. You'll want to start at the bottom and work your way upward.
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Apologies it's taking me so long to get the December BOTM thread up! I have had some poo poo going on that has kept me preoccupied! It is going to be the dickens christmas poo poo because what the hell https://manybooks.net/titles/cricket-hearth and https://manybooks.net/titles/dickenscetext96tchms12.html and so forth but I'll try to throw a few curveballs in to keep it interesting
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