Post by johnofgwent on Feb 11, 2024 10:13:30 GMT
Sat down in front of the telly with a mug of tea and Ralph Fiennes is talking to Laura about some remake of Macbeth he's doing
Laura is stirring it saying the location is a bit rough and they don't do any trigger warnings and Ralph's response was ....
Well amazing really
His stance is that theatre is supposed to bring out emotion, good and bad, that Shakespeare wrote violent plays for a violent world, that when one saw King Lear for the first time knowing nothing of it, one was supposed to recoil in fear and horror as the actor plucking out their eyes...
It seems he staged the production in an old aircraft hanger, so neither the audience nor the players had the comfort of a place they knew. The area and even the surroundings were doctored to give the feeling the audience were immersed in a war zone, extra actors interacted with the audience beforehand to increase the sense of the unknown.
And critically he said the theatre should be about the unexpected, certainly for the first time audience goer. What is the point of a script specifically written to shock, to invoke emotion, to stir strong feelings if before the play starts you're told there are scenes of whatever
I absolutely agree
I remember channel 5 started to warn me that my weekly fix of Gil Grissom in CSI was going to deduct violence and scenes of trauma from the start, and I would think 'i bloody well hope so, it's CSI not blue Peter FFS'
Of course there's an argument for age specific content. I remember years ago little madam wandered across the living room when I think I had some film on with a car chase and a car hit the side of the crash barrier and madam heard the bang, turned, saw the car door buckle and flinched,
I was a bit surprised but then I remembered seeing the smash at the end of the chase scene in bullitt aged about 11....
But we took her to see Bat Out Of Hell The Musical and when the two lead performers finish 'paradise by the dashboard light' and the leading lady stands up in the back of the cadillac wearing little more than the underwear a moulin rouge dancer might wear, and then the leading man stands up wearing nothing but a mankini thong and a two foot long pink furry jockstrap she turned and buried her face in my side, but I think that was because every woman under sixty in that audience - her mum included - was wildly clapping and telling 'get it off'
No,I agree with Fiennes. Trigger warnings have gone too far
Laura is stirring it saying the location is a bit rough and they don't do any trigger warnings and Ralph's response was ....
Well amazing really
His stance is that theatre is supposed to bring out emotion, good and bad, that Shakespeare wrote violent plays for a violent world, that when one saw King Lear for the first time knowing nothing of it, one was supposed to recoil in fear and horror as the actor plucking out their eyes...
It seems he staged the production in an old aircraft hanger, so neither the audience nor the players had the comfort of a place they knew. The area and even the surroundings were doctored to give the feeling the audience were immersed in a war zone, extra actors interacted with the audience beforehand to increase the sense of the unknown.
And critically he said the theatre should be about the unexpected, certainly for the first time audience goer. What is the point of a script specifically written to shock, to invoke emotion, to stir strong feelings if before the play starts you're told there are scenes of whatever
I absolutely agree
I remember channel 5 started to warn me that my weekly fix of Gil Grissom in CSI was going to deduct violence and scenes of trauma from the start, and I would think 'i bloody well hope so, it's CSI not blue Peter FFS'
Of course there's an argument for age specific content. I remember years ago little madam wandered across the living room when I think I had some film on with a car chase and a car hit the side of the crash barrier and madam heard the bang, turned, saw the car door buckle and flinched,
I was a bit surprised but then I remembered seeing the smash at the end of the chase scene in bullitt aged about 11....
But we took her to see Bat Out Of Hell The Musical and when the two lead performers finish 'paradise by the dashboard light' and the leading lady stands up in the back of the cadillac wearing little more than the underwear a moulin rouge dancer might wear, and then the leading man stands up wearing nothing but a mankini thong and a two foot long pink furry jockstrap she turned and buried her face in my side, but I think that was because every woman under sixty in that audience - her mum included - was wildly clapping and telling 'get it off'
No,I agree with Fiennes. Trigger warnings have gone too far
