Filch
Fri, 8 Feb 2002, 11:58 pmDavid Ryding8 posts in thread
Filch
Fri, 8 Feb 2002, 11:58 pmIn the last few weeks I have seen (in no particular order) - Plum, Hand in hand, Cyclone, Emerging from the Collective Unconscious, Sarenas Song, The Anzac Letters, He gave me flowers, One day in 67, Desire, Flashblack, After the fair, Twelfth night and Filch.
I mention this list of shows only to give some relevance to what I say next.
See Filch.
Blueroom @8pm till next Saturday.
I mention this list of shows only to give some relevance to what I say next.
See Filch.
Blueroom @8pm till next Saturday.
Or a chimpanzee? (erm, one without legs)
Sun, 17 Feb 2002, 06:30 pmWent last night to see Filch and, at the risk of having a hundred and fifty ITA messageboard writertypes suddenly turn against me, I've gotta say I felt a little underwhelmed. I might be being a tad harsh here, but though I admired the energy, approach and spirit of the production, it wasn't the amazing theatrical stylistic revolution that I had been told it would be. It was pretty much an alright piece of movement theatre, as opposed to a brilliant move away from convention. I suppose that it's a bit of a case of my expactations being built up too much.
Big points do go to Angus for successfully making use of a prerecorded voiceover - I was hanging onto every word of it. I really liked the contrast of the voice on the tape casually relating the stories to us while Angus showed the emotional reality. Apart from the odd moment or so, the movement itself often verged on being simply demonstrative, as opposed to showing something that I couldn't get out of the monologue already.
Some of the piece WAS unfocussed. In the middle bit there was a few tangents that Angus went off on that I couldn't follow. But the bit up to and including the coffee sequence was cool and the bike story was grouse too. Of course, the story was a little too familiar and something of a single parent cliche, but Angus performed it so well that that didn't matter at all. And sometimes things seem cliche just because they happen so much.
Though I didn't come out of the show in fits of post-theatre joy-gasms, Filch did serve to reminded me of the importance of taking into consideration a person's circumstances instead of judging them, and also of being able to see other people's perspectives. And seeing as though that seemed to be Angus' point, there is no real grounds to call the show a "failed" experiment, though I would go as far as "over-rated".
Big points do go to Angus for successfully making use of a prerecorded voiceover - I was hanging onto every word of it. I really liked the contrast of the voice on the tape casually relating the stories to us while Angus showed the emotional reality. Apart from the odd moment or so, the movement itself often verged on being simply demonstrative, as opposed to showing something that I couldn't get out of the monologue already.
Some of the piece WAS unfocussed. In the middle bit there was a few tangents that Angus went off on that I couldn't follow. But the bit up to and including the coffee sequence was cool and the bike story was grouse too. Of course, the story was a little too familiar and something of a single parent cliche, but Angus performed it so well that that didn't matter at all. And sometimes things seem cliche just because they happen so much.
Though I didn't come out of the show in fits of post-theatre joy-gasms, Filch did serve to reminded me of the importance of taking into consideration a person's circumstances instead of judging them, and also of being able to see other people's perspectives. And seeing as though that seemed to be Angus' point, there is no real grounds to call the show a "failed" experiment, though I would go as far as "over-rated".
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