Hey, Kate. Good to hear from you! There are likely more than two
threads in this fabric. Brings to mind Wallace Stevens' "13 ways of
looking at a blackbird," in fact.
Doc
On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Kate wrote:
It strikes me that there are two discussions
interwoven here.
I don't know enough to contribute to the first, about the text of
Coriolanus. After seeing the performance last night, I plan to read
the play.
But as to this classes performance, here is what I saw - words
spoken with deep understanding, scenes crescendoing with increasing
energy, students immersed in the play. Well done 2012.
I didn't get to sit through the whole pay, my little ones don't
allow that luxury yet, but I am left wanting to discuss the
questions left by play just as I heard my dad and husband do two
weeks ago.
Now, off to read the play,
Kate (Woodruff) Lange
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In light of this discussion, I watched Ralph Fiennes's film
adaptation
of CORIOLANUS today. Emphasis, of course, on "adaptation" -- the text
is radically reduced from the source. Fiennes does an amazing job
as a
screen actor of attempting to fill in the gaps that the text does not
fill regarding Coriolanus's -- by my count, he smiles only at one
moment in the whole film, when we first see him with his "sweet
silence" of a wife and his child after his return from routing the
Volscians. His performance doesn't make fix the problem that the text
leaves us with -- too little information about his inner life, what
drives him, how he got this way, and what changes in him. But it is
certainly watchable.
What I really liked, though, is Brian Cox's take on Menenius.
Here's a
good interview with Cox in the Telegraph that underscores Cox's and
Fiennes's interpretive choices with that role:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/9027156/Brian-Cox-i…
.
--Mike
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