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| re: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND was enough (spoilers, I guess) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 01:21 pm EST 01/15/18 | |
| In reply to: re: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND was enough (spoilers, I guess) - Chromolume 11:57 am EST 01/15/18 | |
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| this squabble about hotels underscores the universality of certain notions, the language notwithstanding. If this is one's takeaway from the show, one is interested in one's own putative cleverness and not what one would think a person has paid money to experience. "c'est l'arbre qui cache la forêt" |
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| re: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND was enough (spoilers, I guess) | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 03:44 pm EST 01/16/18 | |
| In reply to: re: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND was enough (spoilers, I guess) - ryhog 01:21 pm EST 01/15/18 | |
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| Not really. The 'hotel' issue was an odd sidebar, as the text of the show is very clear in the sense of 'hotel' where one accomodates tourists. Just as when Rigoletto opens the bag and find the body of his dead daughter, the text and stage directions says this seen is done in moonlight - which in John Dexter's old Met production was done in Bright sunlight. Which made hash of the whole scene. Maybe rewrite the text first. And fairy tales/folk tales have great internal logic. Thats why the last 100s of years |
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| re: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND was enough (spoilers, I guess) | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 02:41 pm EST 01/15/18 | |
| In reply to: re: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND was enough (spoilers, I guess) - ryhog 01:21 pm EST 01/15/18 | |
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| To reference a recent conversation out here, I suppose it's like going to Follies and, when asked what you thought, the first response is "who on earth ever uses the word 'avers'??" ;-) | |
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| re: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND was enough (spoilers, I guess) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 03:47 pm EST 01/15/18 | |
| In reply to: re: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND was enough (spoilers, I guess) - Chromolume 02:41 pm EST 01/15/18 | |
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| to me this is worse. Of course "avers" is not a word to which I am averse. :-) | |
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