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19303640 No.19303640 [Reply] [Original]

Why can't we have traditional theatre productions?

>> No.19304541

>>19303640
Because modern stagings are needed to keep the work relevant.

>> No.19305073

>>19303640
people wouldn't like it

>> No.19305174

I went into a Shakespeare 400 class and on the first day they had us watch a Shakespeare-in-the-park production of Much Ado About Nothing and every player in it was a black person who spoke their lines with a heavy black affect to them. Also the play began with an obese black woman singing about too many “brothas” dying and too many “sistas” crying. Needless to say, I dropped that thing like a bad habit

>> No.19305196

>>19305174
Kek, that sounds like it would've been funny to watch though.

>> No.19305206

Because propagandists are working tirelessly to ruin the west.

>> No.19305248

>>19303640
Because actors, directors and regular theatregoers would eventually get bored with everyone doing the same traditional staging over and over and over again into eternity.

It's really the problem with a stagnant canonical culture that no longer has a living tradition of producing high art so everyone has to see the same play a million times.

If I was dictator of the world I'd ban all Shakespeare productions for a 20-year period.

>> No.19305304
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19305304

>>19304541

>> No.19305367

>>19305248
It's not that people got bored with the works, that which even the commonest simpleton calls 'eternal works', but is rather emblematic of the times that there is no longer an interest in them or allows such stagings in the first place.

I would choose a good performance in a traditional staging against sub-par performances in reggie theatre staging any day. But only the latter exists today.

>> No.19305538

>>19305304
Wagner wanted modern stagings.

>> No.19305590

>>19303640
I used to be one of those "I hate regietheater" guys, but nowadays I tend to like it, HOWEVER, if I am watching an opera for the first time I want a traditional production, just so I can have an idea of what it's originally supposed to look like. If I have seen a traditional production already, then yes, I will welcome a modern one, AS LONG AS it's not some superficial political bullshit trying to send a "message" which could as easily have been sent through a newspaper.
But, for instance, that production of the Ring conducted by Boulez is really good. I don't remember the name of the director, but it's from the 80's.

So I am in favor of both, with regietheater being better suited for those who already know the work and want to see it with a fresh eye. But of course, the director has got to be really good. Most regietheater productions are lame not because they are modern, but because the directors are mediocre. But this is normal for any art, isn't it? Most will be mediocre, by definition.

>> No.19305600

>>19305304
I can't tell who is talking when because they both have their extremities raised and unraised at the same time