I've been meaning to read Endgame for ages. How would you say it compared to Godot?
Theatre/Play General
Josiah Allen
Jackson Robinson
Absurdism is meant to make you think Western civilization is 'absurd' and that race mixing is ok
Bentley Turner
I like what ive read about humans but I am waiting for it to be a movie desu
Christopher Gray
>movie
honestly Humans is stellar and deserves best play. I feel like if it's made into a movie it'll lose the energy the play has. I could be wrong the play can easily be into a movie.
Theatre is raw and more compelling, movies lose those features.
Chase Brown
Jesus Christ, this has got to be the most retarded /pol/faggotry I've ever seen on Veeky Forums.
I'm currently reading The Crucible for school but I'm only about 20 pages in. Really liking the atmosphere so far, it's got an almost oppressive feeling to it that I'm loving. I also like the little diatribes that describe the characters and the setting.
Joshua Gomez
I hate live plays. Stage acting is repellant to me, I much prefer musicals. I would rather consume my theatre through stuff like Branagh and Brando adaptations of Shakespeare
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Ultimately a play is only as good as its source material (Like a man for all seasons or death of a salesman) and if its that good it will translate well to the screen no matter what.
Carter Smith
>hate live plays. Stage acting is repellant to me
Care to elaborate on that? I used to agree, but I think it was more due to the fact that theater performances tend to be much more confrontational than other types
Levi Allen
>no mention of spring awakening in the first 15 replies
I'm more disappointed in you anons than your fathers were
But yeah, Spring Awakening. I might take crap for this, but I prefer the musical to Wedekind's original. It's too powerful and complex to view it without that added artistic dimension.
It's also one of the rare cases of plays where the actors are reductive and only ever detract from the abstract work. The question is more of how much Melchior the actor will leave, rather than what he will bring to the character.
Austin Hill
The interplay between actors in front of me (rather than directed on screen) feels unnatural and off-putting. They dont interrupt each other, they speak in unnatural volume and tone so as to communicate with the audience, and pacing and stage positioning feels obvious and awkward even from masters like in The Humans. And when they do break from this, like when the characters interrupt each other, it feels forced and a function of the play, not natural, and again distracts me from the story. Compared to say, the dinner scenes in American Beauty, which are directed so finely that they feel totally natural and let me focus on what is being said.
I realize this is autistic but when I watch something like Les Mis or Saigon in public, the unnaturalness of singing your problems seems to let me relax and focus on the action and story rather than the forced nature of the acting.
Isaac Walker
That's a fair enough point. The unnatural naturalness of theatre is very hard to overcome especially in realism.