ginny_t: for best results, store Ginny in a warm sunny place (Default)
[personal profile] ginny_t
The Shaw festival has made a comedy out of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Is nothing sacred? (urgh. The adaptation's called Nothing Sacred, I guess that answers my question.) I didn't really care for the book when I read it, but still - taking political commentary and turning it into comedy? It's just wrong! Wrong, I say! Okay, not as wrong as the happy musical ending of Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" (poor Victor Hugo), but still. Bad!

Date: 2004-08-05 05:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seangaffney.livejournal.com
I like political comedy. Mmmm, Arms and the Man. *_*

Date: 2004-08-05 05:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginny-t.livejournal.com
I'm still skeptical. It's just wrong. It doesn't help that I didn't really like the original, but still. Good political comedy, on the other hand...

Date: 2004-08-05 08:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sierralad.livejournal.com
Stratford made a western out of the Mating of the Wersh.

...

Taming of the Shrew.

(Too much Monty Python!)

Date: 2004-08-05 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginny-t.livejournal.com
Is too much Monty Python really possible?

Date: 2004-08-05 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamakun.livejournal.com
We'll have to test this sometime, I have 16 DVDs of Python...

The Yin-Yang compels you! XD

Date: 2004-08-05 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginny-t.livejournal.com
You are doing that on purpose!

Date: 2004-08-06 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamakun.livejournal.com
Well, I am now... XD

Date: 2004-08-05 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmarques.livejournal.com
Maybe that's why I prefer the French musical "Notre Dame de Paris".

Profile

ginny_t: for best results, store Ginny in a warm sunny place (Default)
Too cute for evil

January 2019

S M T W T F S
  12345
6789 101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jan. 30th, 2026 04:59 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios