tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527783.post1688859915463317934..comments2023-09-29T03:23:53.191-07:00Comments on Stage Thrust, with Bobo the Theater Ho: attracting a younger audienceJoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492478732621202655noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527783.post-12458431002684407302008-07-10T15:25:00.000-07:002008-07-10T15:25:00.000-07:00Are you kidding? An apt quote. Thanks for sharing ...Are you kidding? An apt quote. Thanks for sharing it. At Whitworth, Bobo taught 30 of the 38 plays; he has seen 32 of them onstage (and, if you count movies, all of them performed except Two Noble Kinsmen, which he regrets not seeing at Ashland a few years back). Anyway, H8 is one of those plays he's neither seen onstage (only the BBC film from, like 1978) or taught it. So thanks for reminding us about an obscure scene.Bobo the Theater Hohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02543482882758983557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527783.post-30034766522810867782008-07-10T14:55:00.000-07:002008-07-10T14:55:00.000-07:00I stand corrected. Thanks. Oh, change "mothers" ...I stand corrected. Thanks. Oh, change "mothers" to "brothers." Typo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527783.post-16047707410632915782008-07-09T16:58:00.000-07:002008-07-09T16:58:00.000-07:00Rowdy audiences misbehaving during the crush of th...Rowdy audiences misbehaving during the crush of the crowd to witness the baptism of the future Queen Elizabeth.<BR/>Riverside Shakespeare has it in a different scene, at 5.3.60-63.<BR/><BR/>A ramble about curtain-speeches just before the start of a show:<BR/>I'm not sure today's college students get quite that rambunctious at a theater performance, but ... perhaps those curtain-speeches need to be more explicit, extended, and comical. A _sarcastic_ tone ("the people seated next to you will just LOVE it if you talk on your cell phone all the way through the first act"), along with time indications ("the first act will be 55 minutes long, followed by an 18-minute break for you to purchase some M&M's and go potty") might calm the nerves of kids who, quite possibly, have little or no experience of going to the theater and regard movie-going, its closest approximation in their experience, as a _social_ event during which emotions need to be shared on the spot (as with texting, etc.)<BR/>God, Bobo sounds so snooty. But he has to admit, people talking during a show make him want to commit impromptu eviscerations.Bobo the Theater Hohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02543482882758983557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527783.post-40404263175329140472008-07-09T15:56:00.000-07:002008-07-09T15:56:00.000-07:00These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse, ...These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse, and fight for bitten apples; that no audience, but the Tribulations of Tower-Hill, or the Limbs of Lighthouse, their dear mothers, are able to endure.<BR/>Henry VIII (5.4.65-8)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com