/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14142864]

>current year staging of an old play
>they wear modern clothing

[Anonymous No.14142878]

>current year making a thread
>they use 2012 memes

[Anonymous No.14142880]

>>14142864
I hate this. Every performance of shakespeare is either modernized or outdoors

[Anonymous No.14142883]

>>14142880
I'm getting really tired of seeing Hamlet wearing a hoodie and sneakers.

[Anonymous No.14142884]

>>14142864
>Current year staging of old play
>they wear clothing from from nazi Germany even though it doesn’t take place in the 1930-40s or in Germany

[Anonymous No.14142928]

>they change the setting to a contemporary african village
>a woman plays the male lead
>they insert an anti-drumpf rant because they can't help themselves

[Anonymous No.14142955]

>>14142878
pepe is eternal

[Anonymous No.14142968]

WTF I thought all modern Shakespeare plays were faithful to the original. You have failed me once more, Anglobros.

[Anonymous No.14142970]

Regietheater is cancer. I honestly can't stand it.

It might be good for the theater critics who have read/seen the same play fifty times before, but it's really confusing if you're watching it for the first, second or even third time. I hate watching plays.

I only watch opera, because the music can make up for any of the visual flaws, and even then I much prefer traditional stagings by people like Zeffirelli, Ponnelle, Otto Schenk.

[Anonymous No.14142976]

>>14142864
Just get up and go home.

[Anonymous No.14142979]

>>14142976
>never criticize anything

[Anonymous No.14142980]

>>14142970
By the way, my rejection of regietheater has nothing to do with its supposed subversiveness. I grew up on Pasolini. But even Pasolini respected traditional-looking clothing, architecture and overall visuals when adapting Sophocles, Boccaccio, Chaucer, St. Matthew, besides not adding any superficial, highly personal and extremely flawed "interpretation" to the stories.