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London Spy: Ben Whishaw, dreamy lover/genius Ed Holcroft and sage Jim Broadbent
Jeff Wrangler:
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Ben Whishaw
Is Bewitchingly Good
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Booo!
:laugh:
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 01, 2016, 07:12:17 pm ---Ben Whishaw
Is Bewitchingly Good
Booo!
:laugh:
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I know. More than a few reviews were entitled 'Bewitched' or 'Bewitchingly'--including The New Yorker--
Journalists. Or, rather, 'hed' writers. Their typing fingers aren't attached to their brains, just a loop to the spinal column and back.
::)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
However--re Ben Whishaw as a witch--or witchy--
Here's him in a production last year in London, at the Almeida Theatre, called Bakkhai (The Bacchae is the Greek tragedy written by Euripides)
I Wish I May, I Wish I Might have seen THIS--talk about an apparition! :laugh:
‘The most perfect portrayal of androgny’: Ben Whishaw, left, with Bertie Carvel, ‘all casual confidence’ in
Bakkhai at the Almeida. Photograph: Marc Brenner
On the one hand Ben Whishaw. Wandlike – or thyrsos-like – swaying in a wispy beard and ankle-skimming yellow dress. On the other hand, Bertie Carvel. Crisp in a Cameron-like suit, and white shirt, hands in pockets, his stance is all casual confidence, but his face is ready to pucker into warring zones of anxiety.
(....)
Whishaw is better than I have ever seen him: insinuating and dangerous. As Dionysus he delivers his baroque autobiography – “son of Zeus, born by a lightning bolt” – in a measured tone, as if he were a politician telling his constituency not to panic. Tugging a strand of his shoulder-length hair, he swivels his shoulder blades (forget cheekbones: these are the new indicator of delicious delinquency), and seems to be on the cusp of changing into something else. But what would that be? This is the most perfect portrayal of androgyny, helicoptering over all sexual horizons. He could indeed be the person who “set all Asia dancing”.
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/02/bakkhai-review-almeida-ben-whishaw-bertie-carvel
Woah!! Now that's witchy!
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Back to The Crucible: HERE'S a review worth reading--by a fan, after seeing the first night of previews (she was obviously sitting in the first row, at the center of the stage--that night I was first row mezzanine, hard left) and she took PHOTOS (I am SO JEALOUS!)--obviously we could be great friends! :laugh: :laugh:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 18, 2016, 12:17:17 am ---• i’ll catch you one day you frail waif
simonwolfgard:
Ben Whishaw and Saoirse Ronan during curtain call, first preview night of The Crucible on Broadway
Notes from The Crucible on Broadway first preview night
• big jail-like set
• non-time-specific wardrobe
• beardy Whishaw
• ten feet away from me
• life complete; may now ascend to next dimension
• plenty of people with non-American accents giving it a good attempt
• simmering energy between Ben and Saoirse
• quite a bit of Ben overpowering people to walls or the ground actually
• and unnerving school girl witchery
• everyone’s a witch
• i’m telling you
• you’re a witch
• a communist witch
• think you’re not? bam proof that you’re the devil
• damning poppets
• Sophie Okonedo killing it
• the king beyond the wall was there, he’ll tell you
• plenty of lil’ Proctor kisses with the missus
• Ben wiping away a runny nose that kind of kept on running through act two
• a giant light fell lots of sparky sparks as everything was being devil possessed
• Ben SANG
• musical words
• out his beardy mouth
• much of cast left through stage door, but Saoirse was hurriedly ushered away
• and Ben snuck away through some other exit smh
• i’ll catch you one day you frail waif
• so all in all three hours well spent
1 MONTH AGO 333 notes
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http://simonwolfgard.tumblr.com/post/140319417294/notes-from-the-crucible-on-broadway-first-preview
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FYI, just in case you hadn't known (I sort of didn't until light finally dawned)
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on April 03, 2016, 10:12:52 am ---• the king beyond the wall was there, he’ll tell you
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is--
http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/King-Beyond-the-Wall
http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Mance_Rayder
Ciarán Hinds (right) as Deputy Governor Danforth in this current production of The Crucible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciar%C3%A1n_Hinds
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Hmmmmmm--
Ok, I just couldn't resist--now THAT'S 'bewitching'!! :laugh: :laugh:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(1973_film)
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