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Got to see Romeo and Juliet last night in the park. I honestly didn't think we'd get in--or I wouldn't, because I was far back on the line from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
petiteseour. We got worried when it wasn't raining--for ten years it seems like every time we go to SitP it pours, so it seemed like a bad sign when it wasn't. This year we bought ponchos and weren't afraid to use them.
So it turned out there was just another problem. Curtain was at 8 but at 9:45 we were still waiting. There was a problem with the turntable thingie that took a while to fix. I was next to an interesting guy on line, though, who said he had just finshed a script on comic book history. I asked him what part and he said EC comics. I was all, "I LOVE EC comics! And a friend of mine in high school's father worked for them." I told him who it was and he was all, "OMG, he's awesome! Look, he's in my script!" Anyway, it was an interesting conversation--and his son was there too and we talked about the books he read in school that year that were all coming-of-age stories. Catcher in the Rye was his favorite, his least favorite was The Chocolate War.
It was great. Lauren Ambrose was such a goofy Juliet--she's been getting great reviews, but I loved Oscar Isaac as Romeo too. They were both very much teenagers for whom everything has to happen now and the idea of waiting five minutes for things to work out is just unthinkable. I remember once somebody told me they hated that play and that "Romeo and Juliet would have totally never have lasted" as if that was something that nobody had ever said rather than, really, the point of the play. Oscar Isaac actually caused me to find myself wishing Entourage to have Vince play Romeo. He reminded me of him in the way he was sort of easy-going but really looking for somebody to go crazy over.
There was a pond in the middle of the stage that was a little distracting.petitesoeur said it took up too much space--meaning imaginary space--and I think that was true. People kept walking through it, but that just made me think how uncomfortable it must be to be walking around with the cuffs of your trousers wet.
But in general, it was a great production that really worked. Juliet and Romeo were both adorable. I could sort of imagine them growing up into Marshall and Lily in How I Met Your Mother. That is, even though their love was dorky and adolescent, it was such a believable meeting of dorky and adolescent I really believed it could be true love. Had they lived they might not have been still jumping around giggling in 50 years but they might still like staring goofily at each other and always be on the same wavelength. They were a believable OTP.
petiteseour. We got worried when it wasn't raining--for ten years it seems like every time we go to SitP it pours, so it seemed like a bad sign when it wasn't. This year we bought ponchos and weren't afraid to use them. So it turned out there was just another problem. Curtain was at 8 but at 9:45 we were still waiting. There was a problem with the turntable thingie that took a while to fix. I was next to an interesting guy on line, though, who said he had just finshed a script on comic book history. I asked him what part and he said EC comics. I was all, "I LOVE EC comics! And a friend of mine in high school's father worked for them." I told him who it was and he was all, "OMG, he's awesome! Look, he's in my script!" Anyway, it was an interesting conversation--and his son was there too and we talked about the books he read in school that year that were all coming-of-age stories. Catcher in the Rye was his favorite, his least favorite was The Chocolate War.
It was great. Lauren Ambrose was such a goofy Juliet--she's been getting great reviews, but I loved Oscar Isaac as Romeo too. They were both very much teenagers for whom everything has to happen now and the idea of waiting five minutes for things to work out is just unthinkable. I remember once somebody told me they hated that play and that "Romeo and Juliet would have totally never have lasted" as if that was something that nobody had ever said rather than, really, the point of the play. Oscar Isaac actually caused me to find myself wishing Entourage to have Vince play Romeo. He reminded me of him in the way he was sort of easy-going but really looking for somebody to go crazy over.
There was a pond in the middle of the stage that was a little distracting.
petitesoeur said it took up too much space--meaning imaginary space--and I think that was true. People kept walking through it, but that just made me think how uncomfortable it must be to be walking around with the cuffs of your trousers wet.But in general, it was a great production that really worked. Juliet and Romeo were both adorable. I could sort of imagine them growing up into Marshall and Lily in How I Met Your Mother. That is, even though their love was dorky and adolescent, it was such a believable meeting of dorky and adolescent I really believed it could be true love. Had they lived they might not have been still jumping around giggling in 50 years but they might still like staring goofily at each other and always be on the same wavelength. They were a believable OTP.
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