The poster for The Musical Tempest Dear Friends, About two weeks ago now I wrote about a remarkable play we saw on July 9th, Paco Jose Madden’s The 5th Musketeer. Since then we have gone to 6 more performances here in DC. My regret is that we didn’t go to more. We picked 7, and [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Capital Fringe Festival Comes to an End
Posted in Music, Plays, Theater, tagged ang lee, James Schamus on July 27, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Pallisers 10:21: The Duke and Duchess in high conflict against backdrop of corrupt world
Posted in 19th century novels, Costume drama, Film adaptations, film studies, political novels/films, Trollope, tagged Jeremy Irons, pallisers, stuart wilson on July 23, 2009 | 11 Comments »
The cork-soled boots, now heavy with subtext Dear Friends, As I wrote a couple of years ago now (really): while often I wish Raven had not chosen to de-emphasize the individual sub- or primary story of a Palliser novel, and emphasized the Palliser one (the only book where he cannot manage this is The Eustace [...]
Castleton Festival: Britten’s Beggar’s Opera: another kind of adaptation
Posted in 18th century, Conferences, Costume drama, feminism, Film adaptations, history play, opera, Plays, Poetry, political novels/films, Regency Romantic literature, tagged haydn, Jonathan Miller, opera, Patricia Routledge, Rogert Daltry on July 19, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Opening scene of Jonathan Miller’s 1983 version of Gay’s 1728 Beggars Opera (Bob Hoskins as the poet-beggar, Gay, approaching his patron) Dear Friends, Last week I wrote on Reveries under the Sign of Jane Austen about Jim, my and Isabel’s two trips to the Castleton Music Festival held over the month of July in mid-Virginia: [...]
Cheri, 2009: Outside lies the junkyard of what does not matter
Posted in 20th century culture, Costume drama, Film adaptations, French culture, French novels, Movies, romance, women's novels, women's art on July 15, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Cheri or Fred (Rupert Friend) and Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer) Dear Friends, I write to recommend Cheri, a lavish costume drama adapted from Colette’s Cheri and La Fin du Cheri. Directed by Stephen Frears, screenplay Christopher Hampton (who now have gotten together many times for successful films, often costume dramas), with 14 producers, as my friend, [...]
Capital Fringe Festival: The 5th Musketeer
Posted in Costume drama, European Renaissance, feminism, Film adaptations, Theater, women's novels on July 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Traditional musketeer outfits Dear Friends, Tonight we went out to the first of 7 events we have bought for out of a host such things that make up the Capital Fringe Festival this years — a combination of plays, musical performances (including one opera), reviews and other entertainments. Each summer for several years now for [...]
Lady Rosina de Courcy in the Pallisers 10:21: “Into the Woods” we go for companionship & refuge
Posted in 19th century novels, Costume drama, Film adaptations, Movies, political novels/films, Trollope, tagged lady rosina de courcy, pallisers on July 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Duke (Philip Latham) and Lady Rosina (Sheila Keith) walk into the wood around Gatherum Dear Readers, On Trollope-l this weekend we got into quite a conversation about the merits of film adaptation versus the eponymous books they are based upon. There was a strong tendency to value books over films (as you might expect), but [...]
