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Llagerrub. I love it.
All seriousness aside, is this play ever produced as a play? I can only ever remember hearing about or seeing "readings". The actors may be dressed up in costumes, but they always seem to be reading the script, rather than acting the play.
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Yes, it's produced as a stage production all the time....it's an enchanting experience. And it's become something of a standard for university drama departments to produce, since it is such good voice-training. >Jackie said: the actors must have to have mellifluous voices< All good actors should have rich voices, the voice is the actor's instrument, their tool...traditionally, stage actors were trained to fill 'the room' with the resonance and projection of their voices, "to hit the back wall" as it was called in theatrical circles. I view the day that microphones were introduced to the Broadway stage as a dark, blasphemous day for the art of the theatre, and I still cringe whenever I see a miked stage production...it dilutes, terribly, the intimacy of live theatrical performance. Good actors have good voices. And, remember, Dylan Thomas was Welsh. And the Welsh tradition of oratory is almost sacred to them. The Welsh view the majesty of a rich human voice, through oratory or singing, with a respect and reverence like no other...except perhaps the Irish. That's why Thomas's poetry is some of the most oratorical verse ever written, which I celebrate since I've always viewed poetry as an oratorical, or even dramatic, artform. (see Walt Whitman  )
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another Under Milkwood note:
Faldage, it is usually produced with a minimalist set, as per the author's directions, in much the same manner as Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology, or Thornton Wilder's Our Town. And like those other productions, when done well, you come away with a heightened consiousness for the beauty and appreciation of life, our everyday life...it elevates simplicity to a transcendence we tend to overlook while immersed in the busy-ness of daily living.
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Chacun à son goût, mais pour moi - hubbub.
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one more note:
I meant to mention that Under Milkwood is also frequently presented in the script-in-hand format called "reader's theatre" (which is what you probably saw, Faldage), sometimes with just podiums, sometimes with open staging. But fully rehearsed and directed, not a cold reading.
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At some point you earn your poet's license. Dylan Thomas and, oh my, James Joyce are good examples. Until that time it's in the common interest if we lesser mortals observe the conventions, such as they are.
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At some point you earn your poet's license. Dylan Thomas and, oh my, James Joyce are good examples. Until that time it's in the common interest if we lesser mortals observe the conventions, such as they are.
I strongly disagree. Creative writers, as artists, have every right to experiement with their work in language and form as they see fit, no matter at what level of stature or accomplishment they are perceived to be, just as every painter has the artistic freedom to experiment with the stroke of the brush. Whether it works or not is up to the audience and the critics. Writers like Dylan Thomas, Eugene Ionesco, e.e. cummings, Ray Bradbury, William Faulkner (he of the 5 page sentences) did not suddenly leap to a new style in the mid-course of their careers just because they'd achieved some stature, that was always their style. In fact, they got noticed because they dared to be different. The notion that someone should somehow deem to sanction literary artists the 'right' to experimentation at some point in their careers is just absurd.
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Very late in-to this thread. Well, all of them ac-tu-ally. I have-n't been here in weeks. Any-way, where in the blue blazes did any-one get the no-tion that you could leg-i-ti-mate-ly in-tro-duce a hy-phen into a word which has nev-er been graced by one in the past? I de-tect the fell hand of Whit-man O'-Neill here, I do.
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I think you just legitimately did so, CK! No, he's kind of illegitimate...(not really, but I just had to follow up that line!)
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