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"Jarring, unnatural blank verse...verbose, plodding and, frankly, more than
a little confusing" (The Stage).
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Hey, Jamie, they're comparing you to Shakespeare!!! Can't say better than
that.
Is the published version going to have a parallel text?
Robin
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From: Jamie McKendrick
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 6:29 PM
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Subject: Pasolini
Running till the 4th Dec. The Print Room in Notting Hill is putting on Pier
Paolo Pasolini's verse play Affabulazione - Fabrication - in my translation.
It's a small theatre that has just opened "without a penny of public
subsidy" as The Stage mentions. The play is directed by Lucy Bailey and
Jasper Britton plays the main part:
http://the-print-room.org/page7.htm
The only two critics I've read have focussed their attacks on the
language of the play - "lofty lyricism" (Evening Standard) "Jarring,
unnatural blank verse...verbose, plodding and, frankly, more than a little
confusing" (The Stage). Both critics rightly praise Jasper Britton's amazing
performance.
(The three public performances I've seen so far I was delighted by the whole
cast as well as the staging.)
It's the first professional performance of a Pasolini play in this country
and a courageous debut for a small theatre. The book of the play Fabrication
will be available from Oberon Books on 16th Nov.
Jamie
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