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Dec

Behind the chickenwire

   Posted by: Kathe   in Performance, Research

Here’s the set for Act Two in Breathe Art‘s production of Nicky Silver’s “Raised in Captivity,” that a friend and I saw yesterday.  I was particularly taken with the fencing as both motif and fourth wall – it made me consider that other fourth wall, the page.  Reading, we can hear and see everything onstage, but we can’t talk to the characters, even if, in the text, they talk to us. Haven’t you ever felt like yelliing out to a character who’s about to do something awful?  “No, Ophelia!  You can’t swim!”

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4 comments so far

 1 

“No, Ophelia! You can’t swim!”

Best line ever. Somehow, I feel like humor is the driving factor in all of your works, to begin with. Making fun out of something you love, it the best way to know it, inside and out. I remember my wife and I watching Mel Gibson’s Hamlet, as Ophelia hands Gertrude sticks and bones. “Here’s rosemary. That’s for remembrance.” and Faith would turn to me and say, “and here’s a chicken bone, in case you get hungry.” It was funnier at the time.

December 8th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
 2 

It’s still pretty funny. A friend and I were reading Beckett’s NO EXIT aloud at a party Saturday, and we kept on cracking up. The worse things get, the more you have to laugh….And hey, Oedipus? Your mom’s here to pick you up.

December 9th, 2008 at 4:23 am
 3 

I’ve never read No Exit, but when I was dating my wife, I used to read lines from Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat as if I was WWE’s The Rock. It was funny, because it worked.

December 9th, 2008 at 7:22 am
 4 

Wait, I’m confusing my existential flavors: I was reading ENDGAME with my pal John, not NO EXIT. (Thanks, Chris…)

December 9th, 2008 at 11:53 am

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