It's like the name of the gay love interest in a James Bond movie

Hi,

So yesterday I survived another round of layoffs.

To celebrate, I went to see a Shakespearean tragedy.

Um...yeah.

So I went to see the ASP’s production of Coriolanus (hee-hee), a play I cannot pronounce without a few giggles and which I knew pretty much nothing about.

The play was really good. In particular, they did a number of great things with the sets, the choreography and general stagecraft that I thought were really innovative and totally worth stealing. My understanding is that one of the choreographers/directors worked on Stomp for a few years and there’s a lot of that grungy percussion that carries over into this production.

The acting was quite good all around, and Corliolanus’s mother did a great job. The guy playing Coriolanus himself was fine, but he was hampered by a character who was deliberately opaqued. It’s easy to just dismiss Coriolanus as an asshole and let it go at that, but the play does a good job at making him sympathetic. Still, when Coriolanus was at his most human, the actor really hit it spot on.

So I encourage people to go see it (it runs until early April).

Later
Tom

It's like the name of the gay love interest in a James Bond movie

Hi,

So yesterday I survived another round of layoffs.

To celebrate, I went to see a Shakespearean tragedy.

Um...yeah.

So I went to see the ASP’s production of Coriolanus (hee-hee), a play I cannot pronounce without a few giggles and which I knew pretty much nothing about.

The play was really good. In particular, they did a number of great things with the sets, the choreography and general stagecraft that I thought were really innovative and totally worth stealing. My understanding is that one of the choreographers/directors worked on Stomp for a few years and there’s a lot of that grungy percussion that carries over into this production.

The acting was quite good all around, and Corliolanus’s mother did a great job. The guy playing Coriolanus himself was fine, but he was hampered by a character who was deliberately opaqued. It’s easy to just dismiss Coriolanus as an asshole and let it go at that, but the play does a good job at making him sympathetic. Still, when Coriolanus was at his most human, the actor really hit it spot on.

So I encourage people to go see it (it runs until early April).

Later
Tom