[ASP] Winter Festival

[hermionesviolin]

So, ASP did a Winter Festival this year -- 3 shows, each with a short run.

(1) Shakespeare's Cymbeline -- a pared-down version of a minor play (there's a good review by someone else here)

(2) The Hotel Nepenthe -- a surreal series of interconnected vignettes which I enjoyed more than I was initially expecting

(3) Living in Exile -- an adaptation of a retelling of the Iliad

I cried a number of times in the first act -- which ends right before the Iliad actually begins (which explains why so many of the stories in the first act felt new to me). Early in the second act, I thought I wouldn't like the second act as much as I did the first, since I'm not actually a big fan of the Iliad, but the second act pulled me right along (though it is genuinely shorter than the first act).

When Patroklos begged Achilles for his armor, I wept -- held my hands in front of my face and wept, knowing what would come next. (musesfool, I thought of you.)

I also wept during Priam in Achilles' tent, though less hard.

Comments

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

It's so sad! I know it's coming, but every time I read some version of The Iliad, I'm like, "No, Patroklos, don't go!"

[marketsquare.livejournal.com]

wept, knowing what would come next

This. Haven't seen this particular play-- but yes, when they're doing myth right, that's how we feel.