I saw The Holiday before Christmas on my shopping afternoon with M, and yes, we liked Kate and Jack and Eli - I wished the dinner party scene with Eli's friends had been longer - and though the rest of it was pretty dire. And poor Kate, having to wrestle with dialog that sounded as if it were straight out of a cheesy selp-help manual when she was ditching the bastard boyfriend(TM). Also, for how long has Surrey been located in the Cotswolds?
I have mixed feelings about The History Boys - I think it should have ended at the singing, and I also thought Mrs Lintott's outburst in the second act came from nowhere in the play, and it felt like a sop to feminist thinking. Other people I know who saw it thought it's sense of period was off - the music suggested 80s, and some of the rest of it seemed very 50s. And at the end of it, I did feel it's yet another play centred on male bloody adolescence, and I really wish someone would do something similar for female adolescence, with the same level of focus on something other than their love lives. But it probably wouldn't get the simultaneous live performance and major film release. We planned to see the film as well, but we didn't get round to that.
And I hope the travel plans come together smoothly, and you have masses and masses of fun on your Big Adventure stateside.
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Date: 2007-01-07 09:17 pm (UTC)I saw The Holiday before Christmas on my shopping afternoon with M, and yes, we liked Kate and Jack and Eli - I wished the dinner party scene with Eli's friends had been longer - and though the rest of it was pretty dire. And poor Kate, having to wrestle with dialog that sounded as if it were straight out of a cheesy selp-help manual when she was ditching the bastard boyfriend(TM). Also, for how long has Surrey been located in the Cotswolds?
I have mixed feelings about The History Boys - I think it should have ended at the singing, and I also thought Mrs Lintott's outburst in the second act came from nowhere in the play, and it felt like a sop to feminist thinking. Other people I know who saw it thought it's sense of period was off - the music suggested 80s, and some of the rest of it seemed very 50s. And at the end of it, I did feel it's yet another play centred on male bloody adolescence, and I really wish someone would do something similar for female adolescence, with the same level of focus on something other than their love lives. But it probably wouldn't get the simultaneous live performance and major film release. We planned to see the film as well, but we didn't get round to that.
And I hope the travel plans come together smoothly, and you have masses and masses of fun on your Big Adventure stateside.