tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200658218238769688.post3548444881955251330..comments2024-01-20T16:46:43.636+11:00Comments on Kevin Jackson's Theatre Diary: The LibertineGeorge Khuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10220918958933755405noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200658218238769688.post-69947774572471212622011-09-05T19:15:23.641+10:002011-09-05T19:15:23.641+10:00Stanislavski wrote that Salvini was the "fine...Stanislavski wrote that Salvini was the "finest representative" of his own approach to acting.<br /><br />Salvini was so confident in his talents as an actor that he was once quoted as saying, "I can make an audience weep by reading them a menu."<br /><br />And to one of Russia's home-grown tragedians, who had lost his voice by drinking, and who asked Salvini what was necessary in order to become a tragedian, Salvini answered:<br /><br />“You need only three things: voice, voice, and more voice!”<br /><br />Salvini said this not only to hoarse tragedians but he repeated it at every opportunity, for like Possart, he attached a tremendous importance to the voice in tragic roles.<br /><br />The voice, Kevin. The voice...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200658218238769688.post-68125231466359888242011-09-01T12:29:24.931+10:002011-09-01T12:29:24.931+10:00I heartily concur. This is easily the best product...I heartily concur. This is easily the best production I have seen in Sydney in a long long time. As you make clear, every element approached perfection: how rare is that anywhere in the world? I stood and bravoed, and wish the entire audience had, for we must acknowledge excellence whenever we witness it. If only it were more often ...<br /><br />If the young Toby Schmitz, in Richard Cottrell's excellent 1999 NIDA grad production, got the swagger of Rochester better in the first half, Gooley triumphed in the latter part; he and Susan Prior moved me close to tears, as I do not remember happening in the earlier production.<br /><br />You do well to dwell on the company's USING language - to advance character, energy, action, mood, concerns -, rather than just saying it, as most young Oz actors do. It was thrilling.<br /><br />What for me was a particular pleasure was to see a young(ish?) director who does not adopt the current orthodox aesthetic of 'what-can-I-do-with-this-pile-of-shit-to-put-my-stamp-on-it?'. (Barrie Kosky and the Schaubuhne have a lot to answer for.) Ironically, however, the director's stamp on the production, in the very act of being faithful to the author instead of trying to subvert him, to be auteur, was everywhere. It was a marvellously inventive production, though done on thrippence. As a sometime director, I found it enviably good, knowing that I would never have found the brilliant and simple solutions that were found.<br /><br />This production is required viewing: if you love theatre at all, you MUST see it.Terence Clarkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200658218238769688.post-5443979706626255212011-09-01T08:35:12.298+10:002011-09-01T08:35:12.298+10:00I agree with everything you said about The Liberti...I agree with everything you said about The Libertine. I thought the play (which I don't know, nor the 2004 movie) was magnificent and the entire company were brilliant. As for Anthony Gooley's tour de force, I am in awe of his work in this piece. If there were any justice, he would never stop working for the big companies after this.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02882929070286626761noreply@blogger.com