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Monthly culture: May 2018
Monday, June 11th, 2018 07:16 pm19MAY18: Devil's Fairground -- Tiger Lillies, Wilton's Music Hall
A theremin in the wild! And a musical saw! Wilton's is the perfect venue for the Lillies, with their whores, drugs, coke and rum: 'our lyrics are dirty, our music is queer'. Fun, dark, consummately performed.
20MAY18: Deadpool 2, Greenwich Picturehouse
Self-referential, fourth-wall-aware, sometimes very funny ('I'm not X-men material. I'm not even a virgin'), sometimes bloody annoying. I liked the final 15 minutes best, and found this on the whole less engaging than the first movie.
26MAY18: The Way of the World, Donmar Warehouse
Very pretty C18 staging, but a curiously unengaging performance: I had little sense of Fainall's villainy from Tom Mison's performance, though perhaps that was the point. At 3.5 hours, this is a long play, and I wonder if it might have been more effective with a little pruning -- Witwoud and Petulant (Fisayo Akinade and Simon Manyonda), though they are charming and comic and camp, add very little to what is loosely termed 'the plot'. Many witty lines, but perhaps too many repetitions on the themes, and too many convolutions of plot. Haydn Gwynne, though.
27MAY18: Solo, Greenwich Picturehouse
Meh.
So much foreshadowing! So little of the charm and charisma of Ford's version! Some random observations; Emilia Clarke has a Hepburnish look to her at times; British accents = villainy; Dryden Voss's facial stripes remind me of Bester's The Stars MyDetestationDestination; given the logo, the Crimson Dawn seems to be an offshoot of TfL.
Meh.
30MAY18: Breeders, Roundhouse
A delight: they still have it (where 'it' may be engagement with audience -- which obviously takes audience, too, but the support band didn't manage this particular 'it'). 'Cannonball', obviously, awesome. I was pleased to discover that I knew quite a lot of their other songs too.
A theremin in the wild! And a musical saw! Wilton's is the perfect venue for the Lillies, with their whores, drugs, coke and rum: 'our lyrics are dirty, our music is queer'. Fun, dark, consummately performed.
20MAY18: Deadpool 2, Greenwich Picturehouse
Self-referential, fourth-wall-aware, sometimes very funny ('I'm not X-men material. I'm not even a virgin'), sometimes bloody annoying. I liked the final 15 minutes best, and found this on the whole less engaging than the first movie.
26MAY18: The Way of the World, Donmar Warehouse
Very pretty C18 staging, but a curiously unengaging performance: I had little sense of Fainall's villainy from Tom Mison's performance, though perhaps that was the point. At 3.5 hours, this is a long play, and I wonder if it might have been more effective with a little pruning -- Witwoud and Petulant (Fisayo Akinade and Simon Manyonda), though they are charming and comic and camp, add very little to what is loosely termed 'the plot'. Many witty lines, but perhaps too many repetitions on the themes, and too many convolutions of plot. Haydn Gwynne, though.
27MAY18: Solo, Greenwich Picturehouse
Meh.
So much foreshadowing! So little of the charm and charisma of Ford's version! Some random observations; Emilia Clarke has a Hepburnish look to her at times; British accents = villainy; Dryden Voss's facial stripes remind me of Bester's The Stars My
Meh.
30MAY18: Breeders, Roundhouse
A delight: they still have it (where 'it' may be engagement with audience -- which obviously takes audience, too, but the support band didn't manage this particular 'it'). 'Cannonball', obviously, awesome. I was pleased to discover that I knew quite a lot of their other songs too.
