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Sunday, March 29, 2009//10:26 PM
hey. haven't been posting recently. so busy with SYF rehearsals. i watched The Winter's Tale yesterday. It was very enjoyable, especially *ahem* the balloon dance. it was...kamasutra with balloons.
In all, the play was a very good piece from director Sam Mendes and the main actors Simon Russell Beale, Rebecca Hall, Ethan Hawke and Sinead Cusack, not to mention the timeless stupidity of the character played by Tobias Segal.
Beale was resplendent as the forlorn and broken King Leontes of Sicilia. he suspects his wife, Queen Hermione has an affair with his best friend Polixenes, King of Bohemia, and accuses her of high treason. Her innocence proved by the Oracle of Apollo, Leontes refuses to believe it and pays the price when his son Mamillius is announced dead and Hermione faints, purportedly dead. At the end of Act 1, he is left a broken and desolate man. His daughter (whom he declares a bastard and a brat) is brought to the far-off kingdom of Bohemia by Antigonus, a lord of Sicilia and husband of Paulina (Cusack) on Leontes' orders. Antigonus is killed by a bear after bringing the child safely to its destination. The princess, Perdita, is picked up by an old shepherd, who raises her as his own daughter.
Ethan Hawke brought guffaws to the audience as the charming and likeable rogue Autolycus. One very memorable scene is when he pretends to be hanging from a cross to gain the sympathy(and wallet) of the unsuspecting shepherd's son (Tobias Segal) who is on his way to buy items for the sheep-shearing party later on. Meanwhile, Polixenes and Camillo, who is an exile from Sicilia, discuss the former's son, Florizel, who has become infatuated with a shepherdess. They decide to don disguises and attend the very same sheepshearing that Clown(i.e. the shepherd's son) is going for. During the course of the party, Autolycus shows up, this time as a pedlar, and manages to steal the purses of almost everyone who comes to buy his wares. One EXTREMELY memorable scene at this point, is the balloon dance. I nearly fell off my seat laughing. It was like the women had 2 circular balloons on the chest and the men had a long pink balloon on their...crotch. the women were like jiggling the balloons and the men were *ahem* stroking their pink balloons. it was like kamasutra. with balloons.
Florizel, who is at the party with Perdita, announce his impending marriage to her. Polixenes reveals himself to his shocked son and forbids him from marrying her, storming off the stage. Camillo reveals himself as well, but helping Florizel to escape. The shepherd and his son decide to reveal Perdita's heritage to Polixenes but are redirected by Autolycus, this time impersonating a courtier of Bohemia. He helps them to find Polixenes, who at this point is on a ship to Sicilia, pursuing his son and Perdita. The couple arrive in Sicilia, and Perdita sees her father, but they do not recognize each other. They have an audience with Leontes when the news comes in that Polixenes is looking for his son. In the end, all ends well when her parentage is revealed and the two are married. Paulina then reveals a "statue" of Hermione, which then comes to life. She then reveals herself as the real Hermione, who had gone into hiding. The family then reunites and the curtain closes.
oh yeah. there was also this bit about dildos, though i didn't really catch that part.
Great. I just gave a summary of the play X_X. it's for all you people who can't watch it. and I GOT ME NEW PHONE!!!!!111!!!one1!!! kk time to go sleep. and i got my first clan war :)
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