点评:A beautiful theatre. The view from the Grand circle benches is no worse than the back grand circle booked seats. Actors are a long way. Take your opera glasses. Fine seats for £13. Only in the stalls would you be able to see the chapters expressions.
*Emma*
I saw Emma during the Jane Austen festival and was hearty disappointed. Or to be truly honest, horrified.
The subtext - there was non.
Austen's sense of humour - replaced with cheap laughs
The manners of the time - completely ignored in this adaptation.
The Bates' were missing and the writer instead made every other character ridiculous. Emma is outright horrid throughout, a very different character. The plot was messed around, there was very little original dialogue. It felt like a poor American sitcom, not a story of subtlety and satire. It was moderately unrecognisable. Even my friend who's only seen 1 film adaptation said it felt wrong. If anyone who loves the books is thinking of going, I think you'd be disappointed. I paid £13 for the grand circle benches (in the gods)(it's £35 -45 for all your other seats) and wish I hadn't paid even that much. We left at the interval, and would have left sooner if we'd bean near the end of the row.
The acting was good I think (who knows what they were aiming for) and I was impressed with the costumes.
Maybe it was a good play if it weren't called Emma. I think some attendees enjoyed it as they were laughing in the right points, rather than gasping as me and friend 2 were.
To be produced by this theatre, the theatre that Jane attended herself, on the 250th anniversary, I'm appalled.
翻译:剧院真漂亮。从大圆形座位看出去的景色丝毫不比后排大圆形座位差。演员们离得有点远。带上你的歌剧眼镜吧。13英镑就能看到好座位。只有在正厅座位才能看到剧中人物的表情。
*艾玛*
我在简·奥斯汀电影节期间看了《艾玛》,结果大失所望。或者说实话,简直吓坏了。
潜台词——完全没有。
奥斯汀的幽默感——被低俗的笑料取代。
那个时代的礼仪——在这部改编剧中被完全忽略了。
贝茨夫妇的戏份消失了,编剧反而把其他所有角色都写得滑稽可笑。艾玛从始至终都很糟糕,完全是一个完全不同的角色。剧情混乱,几乎没有原创台词。感觉就像一部蹩脚的美国情景喜剧,而不是一个充满微妙和讽刺的故事。它几乎让人认不出来。就连我只看过一部改编电影的朋友也说感觉不对劲。如果有哪个热爱书籍的人想去看,我想你会失望的。我花了13英镑买了大圆形长椅(我的天哪)(其他座位要35-45英镑),真后悔没付那么多钱。我们中场休息时就离开了,如果我们能坐在靠近最后一排的位置,肯定会早点离开。
我觉得表演很精彩(谁知道他们想表达什么呢),服装也给我留下了深刻的印象。
如果不是叫《艾玛》,这出戏或许还不错。我觉得有些观众很喜欢,因为他们笑得恰到好处,不像我和朋友二那样倒吸一口凉气。
这部戏竟然由简自己也去的剧院在250周年纪念日上演,我真是震惊了。