| Not sure what you mean, but... | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 03:52 pm EDT 03/17/21 | |
| In reply to: Irish Rep's Online/On Stage production of O'Neal's A Touch Of The Poet - RufusRed 03:20 pm EDT 03/17/21 | |
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| If by “ the manner it was filmed was not palatable ”, you’re referring to this from the N.Y. Times “Critic’s Pick” review – “ Irish Repertory Theater’s new online production, with its cunning use of technology and design — each actor filmed separately but sharing the same virtually rendered set — provides a hearty serving of digital theater that nearly matches the real thing.” – or this from Terry Teachout in The Wall Street Journal – “Perfectly cast and staged by Ciarán O’Reilly and brilliantly produced by a virtuoso team of designers and editors including Sarah Nichols, the show’s miracle-working video editor, it is a shining model for any company putting its work online during the Covid pandemic.” – it’s safe to say you’re outvoted. As it happens, nearly every one of the Irish Rep’a productions – “The Weir”, “Molly Sweeney”, even “Meet Me in St. Louis” - was filmed in such a manner. But that’s true of roughly 80% of the theatre I saw online last year, everything really except for the live shows broadcast from the Old Vic and a few 1- and 2-person plays filmed by enterprising regional theatres. There is simply no way a small off-Broadway theater company has the resources to “do a bubble”, as you suggest... it’s proven challenging, not to mention hugely costly, for some major Hollywood productions. (I have it on good authority that it nearly broke the bank for the Netflix filming of “Diana” – they clearly felt filming the production while it was fresh in everyone’s minds was something they had to do, but it made it more costly than just about any filmed stage musical so far aside from Hamilton). More to the point, though, is that if you’ve made it more than a year into the pandemic without seeing any other online production where the actors were filmed separately using greenscreen technology and made to look like they were in the same space... well, I envy you that, but it would almost seem to me you’d been living in a bubble of your own. |
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