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kodachrome-net · 3 months

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The 400 Theatre, Chicago, 1982

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emotinalsupportturtle · 3 months

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They should just let David Tennant do every Shakespeare play because;

he just has a way of speaking shakespeare that brings the words to life

he would fucking love it

why not? we know Shakespeare wrote those fruity bastards specifically for him

nobody has to ever read shakespeare in english class again. Just pull out the Tennant version

#david tennant #shakespeare #shakespeare plays #theatre #about the first point it never feels like he's reciting anything let alone a 400 year old play. it's so effortless and poetic #never mind me i'm just doing my routine “loose my mind about david tennant in shakespeare”#but can you blame me

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emaginart · 3 months

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Désir

#eric cucchi #bw photography #photography #analog photography #black and white #analog #theatre #neopan #fujifilm #400 iso

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justalittlerandomartist · 28 days

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YALL SHOULD ALL BE MORE CHILL *she says speaking a foriegn language known as theatre kid.* (ignore my horrid sense of humor)

#be more chill #bmc musical #bmc #crazy #delusional #delulu #delulu is the solulu #theatre kid #theatre kid brainrot #weirdo #W3IRDOS #horrible sense of humor #crazy shit #i act like i get bitches and do rich people shit #im just a theatre nerd who has a combined following of 400 people (yt and tumblr)

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slowlystupendousdelusion · 4 months

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Some thoughts on Macbeth:

(Spoilers for the 2023 Donmar Warehouse production I guess)

So first of all if you haven't been to the Donmar before, it's a cute little theatre - emphasis on little. Conveniently, it is right next to the Seven Dials Market which does street food (and has toilets you don't have to be a customer to use). Not horrendously priced given its location, but I think drinks-wise it might be slightly cheaper in the theatre itself?

So the theatre staff were friendly and admittance to both the venue and the seating was easy and hassle-free. The headsets have test audio playing prior to the performance so you can check they're fully working ahead of time. Bear in mind there's no interval and they do not let you back in if you need a toilet break. Run time is just under 2 hours.

I enjoyed that the theatre bar had a cocktail special on called 'Out Damn Spot' (It's just a Bloody Mary, but I'm a sucker for stupid things like this.)

Also shout out to the girl with the Macbeth tote bag like the retro penguin books. (Is this like the nerdy equivalent of wearing a band's shirt to their gig?)

So onto the play itself:

The audio was interesting; for the most part I liked it. Every time the directional sound came on for a bird flying past or whatever I turned my head like an idiot so it did work. And it did allow for more intimate delivery. There was occasionally a bit of microphone crackle when the actors were moving but not enough to take you out of the play completely. Also I suppose you get essentially two hours of David Tennant murmuring/breathing into your ear if you're into that sort of thing. You can hear (at least) the louder performances without them but you lose the ambient background noise, and I didn't try in the quieter parts to see how well I could hear.

I really enjoyed the music - I'm not quite sure what I was expecting but it was Scottish trad vibes which was a nice contrast with the rest of the play being more modern.

When I first went in I was a bit worried about the distance because it's hard to gauge the scale of the stage but actually even in the cheap (not-) seats you are not very far away. As a fairly short person in standing I had pretty good visibility throughout.

The whole stage set up is simple but they do a lot with minimal scenery and props. Also the lighting! The lighting is really impactful. The visuals are so striking in spite (or probably because of) the minimal staging and clever use of a two way mirror. They use warm vs cool light to indicate the switch to the supernatural/delusion and the white stage floor makes the silhouettes of the props that are used really pop. I think the final view at the end of the play is basically seared on my brain.

(Full disclosure: I do not have enough knowledge about acting to give nuanced performance reviews) But I thought they were all so good! I liked that they went a more psychological route with the absence of physical witches. The porter segment in the middle gave some comic relief and I'm not sure how much was ad libbed, so quite effective in that respect. Cush Jumbo was great as Lady Macbeth; more sympathetic than some other productions I've seen. Tennant was compelling; basically I was drawn to him whenever he was on stage. It was lucky everyone had headphones on cause embarrassingly I did literally gasp at the child-murder.

My attention didn't wane at all, which given that there was no interval and I was standing, gives an indication of how gripping it was. Would definitely go again if given the opportunity.

#macbeth #donmar warehouse #david tennant #cush jumbo #theatre #do i need to spoiler tag for a 400 year old play?#shakespeare

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backhurtyy · 1 year

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i have had one of the worst days of my diabetic career (nineteen years and four months) today

#i was over 400 for several hours and now i’ve been low for the past three #i almost passed out while at theatre #and just generally feel like shit!#me at my pancreas: go girl give us nothing! 🤩🤩🤩

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3lizab3t · 8 months

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putting my Mother Couch tweets here so they are archived/can be found by me when the movie is out in theatres for real

#im not rewriting from twitter #only like 400 people on letterboxed have this as watched so no one else who’s seen it will even see my opinion #BUT when Mother Couch does come to theatres i will reblog this in the hopes that perhaps someone else whos seen it will know #what im talking about in these tweets

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ev75 · 2 years

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photos silencieuses, oeil bruyant

#www.ev75.fr #www.pizza-run.tumblr.com #miguel aguilar photographe #photographer on tumblr #theatre #black beauty #cat #film is not dead #shoot film #shoot film not megapixels #Kodak Tri-X 400 #www.miguelaguilargif.tumblr.com

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therhythmismyblanket · 6 months

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I just think it should be illegal to raise the price of theatre tickets to over 200 bucks no matter the demand

#yes this is about 400$+ merrily tickets like wtf?!#merrily we roll along #broadway #musical theater #musical theatre

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targkso · 11 months

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I'm almost always on the verge of insanity over Elizabethan playwrights but today more than usual I feel even insaner over them

#ive just pulled out all my marlowe plays and im just. staring at the covers #getting emotional #watched half of the rsc's othello #and an analysis video of differences between elizabethan theatre practices and the modern day #god....#GOD!!!#and now im thinking about kyd and jonson #and GOD.... something something marvelling at art and human understanding 400 years later #the vastness of my adoration for history & the arts cannot be put into words in a way that matters #its incomprehensible and all consuming and ill never know peace

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sinceileftyoublog · 1 year

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Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Live Preview: 3/14-3/15, Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet

Photo by Danny Clinch

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Over the past few years, Jason Isbell’s had a lot of time to think. Pandemic and lockdown-induced isolation made us all spend a bit more time between our ears, and for Isbell, it was his experience on set for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon that yielded even more alone time. These spaces in between catalyzed the creation of Weathervanes, Isbell’s new album with the 400 Unit out in June via Southeastern/Thirty Tigers. Like Isbell’s best records, Weathervanes tackles many areas of life, from getting older and grappling with regret and depression to existing in an increasingly fraught and vulnerable world. What makes it succeed most is the extent to which he relied on his collaborators to make it, purportedly inspired by watching none other than Scorsese seek out the opinions of others while filming Flower Moon.

If there’s a line on Weathervanes that sets up the rest of the record, it comes on opener and lead single “Death Wish”, the only taste of the album so far released. On the song, about being in love with a depressed person, Isbell reflects, “The night was young once, we were the wild ones / Before we had to pay attention to the violence.” As a parent, a man, a white man, and a Southern man, Isbell feels the weight of the world, his voice uncharacteristically shaking, trying to explain that world and survive in it without shirking the performance of grappling with his complicity in the bad parts and responsibility to make it better. Morgan O’Shaughnessey’s lush strings contrast Chad Gamble’s clattering drums, mirroring Isbell’s frame of mind. The song directly foreshadows a tune like the dark “Save the World”, which sees the narrator learning about a school shooting, trying to balance his own mourning with his desire to keep his children safe. The most pointedly ruminative is “Cast Iron Skillet”, where Isbell uses the titular object as a metaphor for Southern tradition. “Don’t wash a cast iron skillet / Don’t drink and drive--you’ll spill it,” he sings, toying with the listener’s expectations in order to turn upside down a bygone nostalgia of a South that never was, condemning racism and toxic masculinity then and now.

Elsewhere on Weathervanes, there are Isbell staples: Southern rockers (“When We Were Close”, the basically live-to-tape “This Ain’t It”), soaring epics (“King of Oklahoma”, proggy closer “Miles), languid swayers (“Vestavia Hills”), and quotables galore (my favorite: “I’m running out of jokes / If you insist on being lonely, can you leave a couple smokes?”). Tonight and tomorrow night at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, you can expect to hear at least “Death Wish” and hear how it fits in with the rest of the brilliant songwriter’s unparalleled catalog over the past decade.

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#live picks #jason isbell & the 400 unit #rialto square theatre #jimbo hart #chad gamble #derry deborja #weathervanes #danny clinch #martin scorsese #killers of the flower moon #jason isbell #the 400 unit #southeastern #southeastern records #thirty tigers #Morgan O’Shaughnessey

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kodachrome-net · 7 days

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Rare "love seat" in the 400 Theatre, Chicago, March 1987

#theatres #movie theatres #theaters #400 theatre #vintage theatres #rogers park #bruce sharp #old theatres #ricoh xr7 #film photography #oddities #chicago theatres #chicago theaters

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france-unofficial · 3 days

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my turn to do this because a.) my motivation is at the lowest it's ever been and b.) I don't have the confidence to do this without you slightly crazy people cheering me on

100 notes and i'll attempt to drink an adequate amount of water a day

edit: ✔ glugged a bottle of water and set reminders so I don't forget

200 notes, i'll turn my blog lime green for one week. (after that one week pasts, I'll try to make my blog aesthetically pleasing or whatever)

edit: ✔ turning it lime green for ONE week. shrek can live on my blog for now

300 notes, and i'll post a fanfic about a random character- just send me an ask and I'll write for whomever (not posting a fan fic about shrek.)

edit: ✔ character taken!

400 notes, and i'll stop procrastinating and do the missing assignments that've been piling up on me (I have... over seven overdue assignments 🤡 )

edit: ✔ working on them right now :')

500 notes, and i'll audition for musical theatre (surprise I can sing)

edit: ✔ in progress....

600 notes, and i'll start practicing my violin at least 5-6 times a week

edit: ✔ found my violin in its dusty cave and tuned it :D

700 notes, and i'll open writing requests on this blog for two days. (no more no less. anything after that, will be deleted.)

edit: ✔ requests are now open. please be specific who you want to be written, and I'll write it to the best of my ability. please keep in mind that nsfw/smut/dark content will NOT be written for. x readers, platonic relationships, and sfw requests only. thank you :3

800 notes and i'll start saving up for a new laptop

edit: ✔ started saving up so I can get a new laptop! the laptop I'm using now is alright, but I could use an upgrade

900 notes and i'll start a corpo blog

edit: ✔ its @furby-unofficial

1k notes, and i'll ask my parents to take me to a doctor to test if I have adhd

edit: ✔ just scheduled an appointment. thankfully it didn't take that much convincing and didn't turn into a argument

[bonus stuff:]

1.5k notes and i'll start a micro-nation blog

2k notes and i'll come out to my parents

#i dont really care if you spam lol #anyways i'll edit this as itme goes on

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bwthornton · 2 years

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#Film #FrançoisTruffaut Mark Kermode reviews The 400 Blows (1959) | BFI Player

https://stratford-upon-avon-theatre.blogspot.com/2022/10/film-francoistruffaut-mark-kermode.html

#francois truffaut #Mark Kermode #The 400 Blows #BFI #stratford-upon-avon theatre review

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gubgam · 2 years

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What to say when a stranger asks about your cane in an uncomfortable way:

Most recently used: “It’s for emotional support”

Immortality is hard on the knees

I’m a professional pole vaulter

(Look side to side conspiratorially) …you can see it too?

I keep my quarters for the car wash in here

Huh? Sorry I didn’t catch that? Sorry what? (Make them repeat it until they get loud and/or embarrassed)

You should see the other guy

Do you wanna guess?

I drank raw milk once

Nothin’ gets past this guy! (loudly, pointing)

It’s actually for fitness, like ankle weights

Mmmm I just like the fact that I’m disabled is way more interesting to strangers than anything else about me

It’s a very rare pez dispenser

Wow!

I’m never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm

Walking? In this economy? Psh!

Essential oils go in it

For shits, giggles and a debilitating neurological condition

My no-good-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather forgot to carry madam zironi up the mountain

Cane?

It’s how I sneak snacks into movie theatres

Well it’s not for walking

(Croaky voice) I’Ve wAiTed 400 yEars for sOmEoNe to aSk mE thAt QUesTion

Finally someone noticed!

Thirst trap

Have you heard of Benjamin button syndrome

To hit small children!

I’m donating my leg to science

I’m going to be Tiny Tim this Christmas, you know, from the musical

To humble me

I mastered walking and thought I’d like a challenge

I keep rolled up $2 bills in here (whisper) …I don’t trust The banks

It’s sexy and cool

You tell me ;) no really, what’s your best guess? (wait for ittttt…. Boom now they are uncomfortable too)

Religious reasons

Then the last one on my notebook page is just a drawing of those 2 dogs from the ‘y’all got legs’ animation in sunglasses and “I got legs”

So there you go

#gammy speaks #disability #mobility aid #cane #cane user #fun things to say to strangers #disabled pride #cripple punk #spoonie #beautiful quote #mobility aid user #talk shit get hit

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slowlystupendousdelusion · 3 months

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Going to London on a whim definitely paid off cause I managed to wrangle my way into Macbeth twice

Some further thoughts:

1. Okay so I think it might have been the arts interview where Tennant says not to worry about understanding Shakespeare because if the actors are doing their job right you will be fine. He's right and this cast utterly succeeds at that.

2. I'm generally terrible for my mind wandering when I'm watching things (the rewind button on my remote is much abused) but I was enthralled from start to finish. Even with having seen it multiple times. Not a hint of my mental shopping list.

3. My potentially controversial opinion is that I might like the cheap seats better? When I was in the stalls I was off to the side, whereas the standing tickets obviously you're looking at the stage head on. I think some of the visuals were far more striking from the back - you get full impact from the lighting and the blood seeping out at the death scene and the people behind the screen at the back. I don't think the warm to cool light changes are as noticeable from the front. However, you obviously have a much better view of the actors and the nuances of their performances (although because of the set up of the theatre from the side you are blocked from seeing everyone on stage at some points). It's a bit more intense up close, and it does feel like the actors are looking directly at you (Not me quailing in my seat during prolonged eye contact 😅)

4. I think I went through the overall choices made before but some more things I enjoyed: how much humour is imbued throughout, Lady Macbeth being warm and likeable, Macbeth lying prone multiple times through the play mirroring his final send off, Macduff "all my pretty ones?", Macbeth's little face when he gets both swords, him questioning the manhood of the cutthroats, the absolute softness of Macbeth's embrace before completely pulling the rug out from under you and murdering a child in the same gesture.

4. Minor miracle how Cush Jumbo managed not to get her bloodied hands on her very white dress? Very impressed with this.

5. I think the one thing I would say is that they should have made Fleance/Macduff's son/Young Siward have more obvious costume changes between them

6. I still love how pared back the stage and costumes are. It's incredible how rich the experience is with actually not a lot.

7. I think I'm sold on the binaural audio; the play opens in darkness and you hear a bird move from one side to the other in your headset. Not only do I look from one side to the other like a fool, but my brain reckons it can see the wings in the gloom. There are multiple moments that the delivery is far more intimate than would be allowed without use of the audio. I think this could be really beneficial for larger theatres for those in the cheaper seats too. Also, maybe better for inclusivity for those with visual or aural impairments if everyone has a headset? The drawbacks for me are the occasional crackle you get from the mic pack, and I guess maybe it feels like you're further removed from the actors themselves. Also I guess if I'm sitting at the side my left and right sounds don't quite match up with where the actors are looking based on where the left to right sounds are for those sitting centrally? It didn't really affect my enjoyment any, but would perhaps need to be considered if this was used in different performances/larger theatres etc.

8. What the binaural audio did not stop was me hearing the woman sitting next to me gasping and jumping about ten foot into the air multiple times during the performance. She absolutely had not noticed anything going on behind the screen at the back until they started hammering, and of course I then jumped myself cause I was not expecting noise/motion from that side. This was incredibly funny but awkwardly coincided with some of the most intense parts of the play. (Although I imagine if I hadn't already seen it I might have been less entertained)

9. Have I said how good it was? It bears repeating

10. Standing Ovation discourse: Friday night I was surprised by how few stood? As the painfully British person I am, I was hoping that someone else would stand up first but they didn't in my block. Also I almost garotted myself on the headphone wire when I stood up so maybe this was a consideration others were having. I was sort of shocked that others didn't stand after we did (not because I think I'm some kind of influencer but IME British standing ovations are motivated by social pressure in a "oh gosh all these other people are standing up, I guess I better had too" sort of way. There has to be enough people doing it to overcome the innate "you must not make a scene" directive that burns within our souls.) No one stood in the front row of my bit at all. Sat Mat had noticeably more people standing, including in the front row.

11. The person sat next to me said to her husband as it ended "I certainly wasn't wowed by it" and I was utterly shook. I don't think I heard any one else being particularly critical (but also I would never say anything so damning about a show I'd seen in the theatre itself so maybe it's not a fair sample)

12. Honestly I needed a full on hour or so to decompress after seeing this, I was fizzing under the surface.

#jammy git #macbeth #donmar warehouse #david tennant #cush jumbo #do i need to spoiler tag for a 400 year old play?#shakespeare #theatre

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