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Re: What is the best thing you did yesterday?
« Reply #490 on: May 02, 2010, 02:29:17 PM »
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Re: What is the best thing you did yesterday?
« Reply #491 on: May 02, 2010, 03:29:40 PM »
Wow, a stage adaptation of Dorian Gray. I'll be curious to hear what that's like! Be sure to report back.

It was good! They turned Basil into a photographer, which worked perfectly well as that solved their problem of the transforming picture - they simply used four different photographs over the course of the evening.

If you didn't know better, you would never have guessed that you were watching an adaptation of a novel instead of a play. No overtly narrative passages, and after all, The Picture of Dorian Gray is full of great dialogue and lots of action, so it was no problem to bring all that alive on stage.

Dorian was played by a woman - for no apparent reason, because apart from that, the production was fairly conventional in terms of costumes, staging etc. She did a fantastic job, though, and after that first moment of realization that she was a woman, I never thought about it again for a single second.

So overall, a good experience, but nothing revelatory. One reason why I am not more enthusiastic could be that I have read the novel three times and watched the recent film version only a few weeks ago. As much as I like the story, I may have overdosed on it :)
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Re: What is the best thing you did yesterday?
« Reply #492 on: May 02, 2010, 11:27:27 PM »
Wow, a stage adaptation of Dorian Gray. I'll be curious to hear what that's like! Be sure to report back.

It was good! They turned Basil into a photographer, which worked perfectly well as that solved their problem of the transforming picture - they simply used four different photographs over the course of the evening.

If you didn't know better, you would never have guessed that you were watching an adaptation of a novel instead of a play. No overtly narrative passages, and after all, The Picture of Doarian Gray is full of great dialogue and lots of action, so it was no problem to bring all that alive on stage.

Dorian was played by a woman - for no apparent reason, because apart from that, the production was fairly conventional in terms of costumes, staging etc. She did a fantastic job, though, and after that first moment of realization that she was a woman, I never thought about it again for a single second.

So overall, a good experience, but nothing revelatory. One reason why I am not more enthusiastic could be that I have read the novel three times and watched the recent film version only a few weeks ago. As much as I like the story, I may have overdosed on it :)
Ooo, that sounds good. Nice idea in making Basil a photographer and interesting choice in making Dorian a woman.

I re-read the book back last year, and I'd actually really like to see a good adaptation of it. I'm not OD'd yet. :)

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Re: What is the best thing you did yesterday?
« Reply #493 on: May 03, 2010, 12:33:05 AM »
When Wilde writes a book it isn't all that far away from a play. Same with Roddy Doyle.

That sounds like a cool adaptation. I think I've only seen DG as a character in the great League of eXtraordinary Gentlemen.
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Re: What is the best thing you did yesterday?
« Reply #494 on: May 03, 2010, 10:09:32 AM »

Ooo, that sounds good. Nice idea in making Basil a photographer and interesting choice in making Dorian a woman.

I re-read the book back last year, and I'd actually really like to see a good adaptation of it. I'm not OD'd yet. :)

I very strongly suspect that the recent film version will not be what you are looking for (if you were at all considering to see this, of course). They obviously were more interested in making a Gothic Victorian London horror film than anything else. Colin Firth is good in it, but I still think he is miscast as Lord Henry Wotton. And Ben Barnes as Dorian brought very little depth to the character, in my opinion.


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Re: What is the best thing you did yesterday?
« Reply #495 on: May 03, 2010, 10:37:21 AM »

Ooo, that sounds good. Nice idea in making Basil a photographer and interesting choice in making Dorian a woman.

I re-read the book back last year, and I'd actually really like to see a good adaptation of it. I'm not OD'd yet. :)

I very strongly suspect that the recent film version will not be what you are looking for (if you were at all considering to see this, of course). They obviously were more interested in making a Gothic Victorian London horror film than anything else. Colin Firth is good in it, but I still think he is miscast as Lord Henry Wotton. And Ben Barnes as Dorian brought very little depth to the character, in my opinion.
I was hoping the new one might be good, but I wasn't holding my breath or anything. Too bad. :(  I love Firth, too, but he does seem miscast as Wotton.

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Re: What is the best thing you did yesterday?
« Reply #496 on: May 12, 2010, 02:53:13 AM »
I'm not going to write everything down right now, but let's say it involved fire, a hammer, an erasable marker, an external hard drive, pee, and an LCD screen. Oh, and bank statements. And cigars.
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Re: What is the best thing you did yesterday?
« Reply #497 on: May 19, 2010, 10:37:03 PM »
Started feeling like my old self.

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Re: What is the best thing you did yesterday?
« Reply #498 on: May 19, 2010, 10:57:46 PM »
Started feeling like my old self.

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Re: What is the best thing you did yesterday?
« Reply #499 on: May 19, 2010, 11:02:59 PM »
Started feeling like my old self.

cured?

Maybe.  A had an awful week a couple weeks ago, but now only one bad day out of the last ten, which is like a new record or something.  :)

Tonight's three-mile run felt great, too.

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