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Bacchae at Zellerbach
Mar. 10th, 2008 07:42 pmOk first off I do agree with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zoe_me that it was a moving production and great to watch right up close like that. Indeed as she says the portrayal of Dionysus was hot. And I didn't think he was tilting his chin up so much as maybe talking to the people up in the back sometimes... but maybe it was posing. There were other good things too, like how the chorus 'disappeared' hiding under their outer wraps looking as if they were boulders or something.
So take all the good stuff as said,
I just want to talk about the set...
Before it started we were looking at the sculptural reliefs on what were supposed to be the palace frieze. Some of us thought it looked like socialist realism, the suffering of downtrodden man or something, but I thought it looked like a bunch of dramatically passed out drunks. Either's unlikely to be what the palace of Thebes would have had, but at least the latter would be on topic.
I liked how they were able to have forests come and go and time of day change with cutouts and lighting, but was rather distracted that the moon's craters were all wrong. Or was there some time in the last 2500 years that the moon rotated to show different craters and no one thought to record it?
For a while there was also a large rock floating in the sky. At least I think it was a rock. It didn't seem quite right to be a cloud. We had some discussion afterwards that it may have been meant to represent the mountain, but it didn't look much like a mountain top. It looked more like a cloud made of stone (although it was 2-d).
At the end when Agawe recovers from her madness, the stars, previously invisible, started twinkling slowly on and off in no apparent pattern (or constellations).yvonr said she was particularly disturbed that some of the stars were twinkling in front of the moon. By then I'd given up on the sky making any sense. I'd already spent too long wondering what was up with the craters.
Overall it was a great evening, but their level of astro-oblivio just has to be remarked upon.
zoe_me that it was a moving production and great to watch right up close like that. Indeed as she says the portrayal of Dionysus was hot. And I didn't think he was tilting his chin up so much as maybe talking to the people up in the back sometimes... but maybe it was posing. There were other good things too, like how the chorus 'disappeared' hiding under their outer wraps looking as if they were boulders or something.So take all the good stuff as said,
I just want to talk about the set...
Before it started we were looking at the sculptural reliefs on what were supposed to be the palace frieze. Some of us thought it looked like socialist realism, the suffering of downtrodden man or something, but I thought it looked like a bunch of dramatically passed out drunks. Either's unlikely to be what the palace of Thebes would have had, but at least the latter would be on topic.
I liked how they were able to have forests come and go and time of day change with cutouts and lighting, but was rather distracted that the moon's craters were all wrong. Or was there some time in the last 2500 years that the moon rotated to show different craters and no one thought to record it?
For a while there was also a large rock floating in the sky. At least I think it was a rock. It didn't seem quite right to be a cloud. We had some discussion afterwards that it may have been meant to represent the mountain, but it didn't look much like a mountain top. It looked more like a cloud made of stone (although it was 2-d).
At the end when Agawe recovers from her madness, the stars, previously invisible, started twinkling slowly on and off in no apparent pattern (or constellations).
yvonr said she was particularly disturbed that some of the stars were twinkling in front of the moon. By then I'd given up on the sky making any sense. I'd already spent too long wondering what was up with the craters.Overall it was a great evening, but their level of astro-oblivio just has to be remarked upon.
