Wednesday, August 29, 2012

The Week that Was #28

Top Girls

I reviewed State Theatre's production of Top Girls; you can find the review here.

It was a tough review to write, mostly because while I'm not entirely ignorant of feminism, I wouldn't presume to be an expert. But the play itself has strong feminist themes, so there was a need to demonstrate at least some insight.

Some other reviews:

No Plain
Kryztoff Raw
Marginalia
Barefoot Review

Barrymore

Another filmed play – though not through the NT Live program (which I've mentioned here and here) but rather a collection of Canadian film and theatre companies – Barrymore, starring Christopher Plummer, is (somewhat unsurprisingly) a play about noted stage and film actor of the early 20th century, John Barrymore. He was one of the legendary Barrymore acting family (his brother Lionel, sister Ethel and father Maurice were all actors; Drew Barrymore is his granddaughter) and a very interesting – and tragic – character.

Monday, August 20, 2012

The Week that Was #27

Okay, so I'm going back to the weekly – well, try at least – blog post thing, doing short summaries of things that have happened recently. This one, though, is going to include some stuff a bit further back than the last week or so, simply because there were longer blog posts that I decided to not finish.

The Dark Knight Rises

While I wouldn't call myself a fan of Christopher Nolan's Batman series – I didn't like the first one all that much, and while I did like aspects of the second, that was mostly because of Heath Ledger's amazing performance as The Joker – I did want to see the third and final installment, both to see how they ended it and (once again) because of the supporting cast, in this case Anne Hathaway (for whom my fondness is already documented here) as Selena Kyle/Catwoman and Tom Hardy as Bane.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Rambling

I haven't written any blog posts for a while; this, of course, is somewhat annoying, given that I have one for the sole purpose of making me write about things on at least a semi-regular basis. But that's less about speaking my mind and more about making sure that I am writing simply for the sake of writing; I believe that writing is one of those things that you need to practice, regularly, to stay good at. And while I write a little for work, it's not quite the same – to put it bluntly, the writing I do for work is not that demanding; sadly, explaining and interpreting figures for the gas industry doesn't require elegant prose.