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Not gonna lie, this was all I could think of every time Sofia showed up
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YOU KNOW JUST GETTING THE KID UP TO SPEED AND ALL THAT / IT ACTUALLY GETS PRETTY CONFUSING UP HERE WHEN PEOPLE USE HIS NAME AS A GENERIC RHETORICAL INTENSIFIER SO IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ON THAT HONESTLY WE’RE ALL PRETTY OPEN TO IT
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Every day it's like oh yeah tomorrow I'm definitely going to get an early start and go to work for 7. And every day suddenly it's 7 and guess what I'm still in bed with no sign of surfacing any time soon
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"I don't think I've done this one right 🥺"
I do love a minor breakdown mid-task
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My second thought for this task is inexplicably the song 'little donkey' and therefore the most impressive load would obviously be a pregnant virgin Mary and accoutrements and if someone doesn't go down this route I will be disappointed
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I think Crowley opened a restaurant to try and lure Aziraphale back to earth.
Good luck Crowley
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So apparently at some point I vomited an essay about my Macbeth feelings and left it lingering in my drafts for months?
So I guess here are my 3am Donmar Macbeth thoughts from a few months back now that I'm going to see it again (!)
(Err spoilers)
Not to be back on my Macbeth bullshit again
And as I said before I know nothing about acting to have a nuanced take on performances but I want to talk about the set. (I also have no credentials to talk about this, but I do have a lot of feelings about it?)
I just love so many of the choices made to the extent that I'm still thinking about it a lot. Macbeth was the first Shakespeare we did at school and a large part of what appealed to me aged 10 would be the supernatural aspects, mediaeval castles and battles, and so going in this production would have been almost the opposite of what I would have thought I'd want from a Macbeth set. Or at least what 10 year old me would want. (Also i will acknowledge that it would be hard to go full throttle historical epic in such an intimate theatre anyway)
But being pared back worked so well. The costumes! Nod to the Scottishness with the kilts but still modern. The monochromes pop against the white stage, so it is the movement of the actors that you focus on. Lady Macbeth's all white costume tying in with appearance Vs reality themes (Innocent flower / serpent under't) by subverting your expectations also maybe hinting at the general less Evil slant this production has for her. I read the interview with the set designer that said her difference in clothing was supposed to reflect her being an outsider as well - Lady Macbeth being the only non-Scottish cast member in this production and the thought process being that perhaps it was this that lead her to be less wed to the idea of the social hierarchy as it was. I'm not sure I picked that up when watching, but it was really interesting to hear about this thought process.
I also loved how the music in this production was traditional, tying the play back to Scotland, which could be harder to create a sense of in such a pared back set design.
The stage itself is so simple but the white works so well esp when viewed from higher up in the theatre. It means that the silhouettes of the actors are striking, particularly with the monochrome costumes, and the kilts creating a shape. The few props that are used also end up silhouetted across the stage which is just chef's kiss. (And to think you don't even see this from the expensive seats!)
Also a good proportion of the performance the actors are in the space around the stage block rather than on it - it's used in a very versatile way - you have the porter doing his stand up routine walking around it, you have it used as a table with the characters seated around it at a feast, you have it used as a balance beam for Fleance as he walks along a wall.
Soundproof panel at the back. The way the actors can be lit up or hidden and ugh. Again this is harder to see from the side seats but gives a haunting vibe when viewed head on. This is such a clever way of getting the feeling of unease into the stage production when the supernatural aspects aren't physical.
The lighting. It feels weird to gush about the lighting. But I will continue to gush about the lighting. Just switching from warm to cool with the supernatural/psychological component works so well. It just plays such a big part in the story telling and like you're not even that conscious that it's happening? And the red light for the witches final bit where we get buffeted around Macbeth's mind with him. Gah. Such a big part of the production and yet so understated
Lady Macbeth and her candle - with so few props it makes it so much more striking when they are used! Weird thing to say: but also how great are candles as things? The way the candle light reflects off Lady Macbeth is just ugh and I know this is just how candles work but I don't think we appreciate this enough. I guess a candle stick is a different vibe from like a Yankee candle in my living room but you know.
The beautiful light pouring through Dunsinane Wood at the end onto the stage.
The blood pack and the way it flows out onto the white stage and obviously it's different each night and isn't that beautiful that each closing scene is unique because of fluid dynamics
(My only thing with this is lying supine where the blood only ends up on Macbeth's back looks really inorganic somehow even though it's obv not. But like let the man get covered in blood on his front as well. Imagine the aesthetic)
Honestly I am so curious to see how they will adapt this for a bigger theatre. The Donmar is set up pretty uniquely (it's fairly vertical in terms of seating if thats the right word? Which is quite different from all the other theatres that I can think of in London) and some of the things that worked really well for me was aided by having that height. The stage itself was used variously as a table, a stepping stone etc in this production, so the compactness of that central block is sort of necessary for example in the feast scene. If the theatre has a more trad seating plan, viewing mainly from the front with a shallower vertical height, a lot of the intimacy will be lost. I'm excited to see what solutions they will put in place to try and keep the vibes in a different setting.
#do i need to spoiler tag for a 400 year old play?#stop blogging about the same damn play already#i just have a lot of feelings#macbeth did murder sleep cause i literally had to write these down in the middle of the night to get on with my life#should i be able to think of a better word than 'ugh' to convey my feelings? yes. can i? no.#embarrassingly earnest#donmar warehouse#macbeth#theatre
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Omg almost choked when it started playing Hall & Oates - Rich Girl but Spotify had reverted to recommended for you and I have not actually taken leave of my senses
Chuck on my Good Omens playlist on the walk home and absolutely blindsided by some of the tracks I myself put on there
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Ask and ye shall receive apparently
Take me back 😭
#i know it won't be quite the same in the bigger venue#but so excited#Macbeth#david Tennant#cush jumbo#donmar warehouse#theatre
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Late to the party but secured my Macbeth tickets 🥳🥳🥳
#macbeth#david tennant#theatre#west end#donmar website the hero again for their link being about ten times quicker than the macbeth west end site link#purchased within 9 mins despite the initial faff of trying the atg link first
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Sigmar Polke - Agate Windows in Grossmünster, Zurich, 2006
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tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like
“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”
and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent
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Going forward I think that Taylor Swift should only be allowed to date celebs I'm already aware of
#i just want to have a conversation with my sister without needing a PowerPoint and several diagrams to follow it#sadly for her this will severely limit her dating pool mainly to British Old Men#i for one would be excited to hear 31 tracks inspired by a fling with Michael Sheen#the tortured poets department#ttpd
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“it’s up to you” no thanks, i’m indecisive
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Chuck on my Good Omens playlist on the walk home and absolutely blindsided by some of the tracks I myself put on there
#dumping half a break up playlist on there was probably my first mistake#but what is t.A.T.u doing on there??? 😭#good omens
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In honour of today's transfer announcement and Shakespeare's birthday.
Watercolour and fountain pen ink (Diamine Oxblood)
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