Topic: VAGUELY SCANDINAVIAN (Read 20988 times)

bk · « **on:** August 05, 2010, 12:00:20 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were vaguely Scandinavian and had a little deja vu, since at some point in time I titled the notes vaguely Scottish - go know - and now it is time for you to post until the vaguely Scandinavian cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** August 05, 2010, 12:03:36 AM »

And the word of the day is: JEJUNE!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** August 05, 2010, 12:03:52 AM »

Perhaps the word of the day should be JEAUGUST?

Elan · « **Reply #3 on:** August 05, 2010, 12:21:59 AM »

One of the very few advantages of getting called into work at 2:00 in the am is that I get to make an early post...

TOD:

Sheesh, I don't know that many contemporary British playwrights. I guess Michael Frayn and Tom Stoppard have to be the winners by default, since they're the only ones who have multiple listings in my personal experience.

Favorite productions: the last Broadway productions of An Inspector Calls, Copenhagen, and Invention of Love. If we're talking non-contemporary British plays, then my favorite, hands-down, was the Pearl Theatre's magnificent Cymbeline, which I sat through about a half-dozen times.

Ben · « **Reply #4 on:** August 05, 2010, 03:32:19 AM »

Morning all.

That is all.

FJL · « **Reply #5 on:** August 05, 2010, 04:06:58 AM »

Is Ben always up that early?

FJL · « **Reply #6 on:** August 05, 2010, 04:07:45 AM »

Or is the timer an hour off?

FJL · « **Reply #7 on:** August 05, 2010, 04:08:19 AM »

Elan _ Are there any contemporary Yiddish playwrights?

Elan · « **Reply #8 on:** August 05, 2010, 04:18:26 AM »

Quote from: FJL on August 05, 2010, 04:08:19 AM

Elan _ Are there any contemporary Yiddish playwrights?

I wouldn't know them: my Yiddish is lign in d'rerd, as they say, but there are several Yiddish theater companies that produce new works (or new adaptations of old works, such as Folksbiene's dramatization of I.B. Singer's Gimpel Tam).

Michael · « **Reply #9 on:** August 05, 2010, 04:45:26 AM »

TOD

Stoppard
Frayn
Osborne
Pintrer
Shaffer Bros.

and no one else comes to mind

and of course the classics
Coward
Shaw
Shakespeare

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:00:46 AM »

Good morning, all! I did sleep well last night, and I have no complaints for the Oaf this morning. I've got about 8 bars to write to finish the first of the two Indianapolis charts, and then I can begin pondering whst to do for the other one.

I've got some Victor Herbert work as well today along with some questions to answer for one of the copyists. The McGlinnventory is on hold this week.

TOD:
Christopher Fry: THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING
Harold Pinter: THE HOMECOMING, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Joe Orton: ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE, LOOT, WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
John Arden: SJT MUSGRAVE'S DANCE, THE BUSINESS OF GOOD GOVERNMENT
Edward Bond: THE SEA
John Whiting: THE DEVILS, PENNY FOR A SONG
I know I'm forgetting several here and omitting others like Tom Stoppard, whose ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is a play I dislike although the original production was dazzling,

Best production may be the Williamstown Theatre Festival's "What the Butler Saw," a fiendishly difficult farce to pull off, and this was a really first-rate production and the best of around seven productions of the comedy that I've seen. How do we classify things like John Mortimer's wonderful versions of several Feydeau farces? What about Irish writers like Martin McDonagh? THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE was also quite a brilliant production.

Laura · « **Reply #11 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:08:59 AM »

Good morning.

vixmom · « **Reply #12 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:09:14 AM »

TOD

Lettice and Lovage
By Peter Shaffer

Noises Off by Michael Frayn

are the first ones to leap to mind

vixmom · « **Reply #13 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:09:43 AM »

WHAT was like eating a sponge?

vixmom · « **Reply #14 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:10:18 AM »

VIBES and Prayers and Love and Hugs to Sweet Ginny

vixmom · « **Reply #15 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:11:01 AM »

Glad to hear Elmore had a good nights sleep

vixmom · « **Reply #16 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:11:33 AM »

so did I - a little too good ... I intended to be at work by now

laters!!!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #17 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:24:22 AM »

Quote from: bk on August 05, 2010, 12:03:36 AM

And the word of the day is: JEJUNE!

It's bustin' out all over!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #18 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:30:07 AM »

bk's description of trailers (text, image, text image) sounds embarrassingly like the trailer I just cut for JEWS AND BASEBALL. But sometimes you have to make things look and sound like other trailers so people will think it looks "perfesshunul."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPD5jzfilVI

Edisaurus · « **Reply #19 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:36:11 AM »

The pleasure bk is getting out of his Thurber artwork also reminds me (unpleasantly) that I bought an Edward Gorey numbered etching about 20 years ago, the first time I had every made such an extravagant (to me) purchase. The (late lamented) Gotham Book Mart packaged it in a Fed Ex or US Mail cardboard sleeve. I never framed it, and it stayed in that sleeve. I put it somewhere "safe", and I think at some point it may have been thrown out by someone (perhaps me!) who didn't look inside. The fact that I can't find it bugs me almost as much as losing the actual piece.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #20 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:36:52 AM »

Hoping to hear good news about DR Ginny today! Can anyone PM me her address?

Kerry · « **Reply #21 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:47:59 AM »

Vibes for Ginny!

Elan · « **Reply #22 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:50:41 AM »

Quote from: Edisaurus on August 05, 2010, 05:36:11 AM

The pleasure bk is getting out of his Thurber artwork also reminds me (unpleasantly) that I bought an Edward Gorey numbered etching about 20 years ago, the first time I had every made such an extravagant (to me) purchase. The (late lamented) Gotham Book Mart packaged it in a Fed Ex or US Mail cardboard sleeve. I never framed it, and it stayed in that sleeve. I put it somewhere "safe", and I think at some point it may have been thrown out by someone (perhaps me!) who didn't look inside. The fact that I can't find it bugs me almost as much as losing the actual piece.

One of the greatest things about the internet is that you find out that the boneheaded mistake that you've been kicking yourself over for years is one that other people have made too...

It wasn't a Gorey, but five years ago, I was so tickled by an online comic that I contacted the artist and bought the original artwork from him. It arrived in a manilla envelope along with a bonus set of sketches and rough drafts. I never got around to framing the thing, and it got lost in our move...

elmore3003 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 05, 2010, 06:03:09 AM »

Quote from: Edisaurus on August 05, 2010, 05:36:11 AM

The pleasure bk is getting out of his Thurber artwork also reminds me (unpleasantly) that I bought an Edward Gorey numbered etching about 20 years ago, the first time I had every made such an extravagant (to me) purchase. The (late lamented) Gotham Book Mart packaged it in a Fed Ex or US Mail cardboard sleeve. I never framed it, and it stayed in that sleeve. I put it somewhere "safe", and I think at some point it may have been thrown out by someone (perhaps me!) who didn't look inside. The fact that I can't find it bugs me almost as much as losing the actual piece.

I have managed to lose two letters in my move from Ohio to New York, a very funny one about her poor typing skills from Lotte Lenya and a nice response from Benjamin Britten about a year before he died. I would kill to have both of those letters now. All my ones from Steve Sondheim are now with my collection at Miami University.

Ben · « **Reply #24 on:** August 05, 2010, 06:14:29 AM »

Quote from: FJL on August 05, 2010, 04:06:58 AM

Is Ben always up that early?

Yep!

FJL · « **Reply #25 on:** August 05, 2010, 06:30:01 AM »

Vibes to dear Ginny

Cillaliz · « **Reply #26 on:** August 05, 2010, 06:31:25 AM »

Vibes to DR GINNY~~~~~~~~~

Edisaurus · « **Reply #27 on:** August 05, 2010, 06:34:18 AM »

Thanks, Elan and nice to see you! I think mine may have been lost in our move, too, since I discovered while moving that I apparently NEVER threw anything out in 25 years! ("Tonight, on Hoarders"...)

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #28 on:** August 05, 2010, 06:47:06 AM »

Quote from: bk on August 05, 2010, 12:03:36 AM

And the word of the day is: JEJUNE!

And The Song Of The Day Is: TEACH ME TONIGHT

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #29 on:** August 05, 2010, 06:50:00 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 05, 2010, 05:00:46 AM

Good morning, all! I did sleep well last night, and I have no complaints for the Oaf this morning. I've got about 8 bars to write to finish the first of the two Indianapolis charts, and then I can begin pondering whst to do for the other one.

I've got some Victor Herbert work as well today along with some questions to answer for one of the copyists. The McGlinnventory is on hold this week.

TOD:
Christopher Fry: THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING
Harold Pinter: THE HOMECOMING, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Joe Orton: ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE, LOOT, WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
John Arden: SJT MUSGRAVE'S DANCE, THE BUSINESS OF GOOD GOVERNMENT
Edward Bond: THE SEA
John Whiting: THE DEVILS, PENNY FOR A SONG
I know I'm forgetting several here and omitting others like Tom Stoppard, whose ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is a play I dislike although the original production was dazzling,

Best production may be the Williamstown Theatre Festival's "What the Butler Saw," a fiendishly difficult farce to pull off, and this was a really first-rate production and the best of around seven productions of the comedy that I've seen. How do we classify things like John Mortimer's wonderful versions of several Feydeau farces? What about Irish writers like Martin McDonagh? THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE was also quite a brilliant production.

Larry, an excellent list of plays and playwrights.

Most of my favourite playwrights are British. Stoppard and Peter Shaffer are my gods. I love Stoppard's ARCADIA and THE REAL THING and just about anything he writes. Same with Shaffer, my favourites being AMADEUS, ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, and THE GIFT OF THE GORGON.

Like BK and Larry, I'm a fan of playwrights Christopher Fry and Terence Rattigan. Rattigan, I very happy to say, has been having a serious re-appraisal lately as one of Britain's great playwrights.

I'm currently on an angry young man/Royal Court theatre kick and reading lots of Osborne, Bond, Arden.

Larry, I was lucky to see a production a few years back of John Whiting's PENNY FOR A SONG. I also love Pinter, Orton, McDonagh (actually Irish), Hare, Brenton, Alan Bennett.

I adore Simon Gray and Howard Barker.

Of course, Shakespeare & Shaw get high marks. And I'm a big fan of John Webster and his two classics, DUCHESS OF MALFI & THE WHITE DEVIL.

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