Hadestown

Oct. 22nd, 2024 11:49 pm
lokifan: Comics!Loki threatened by a sword, saying "my words are weapons" (Loki: words are weapons)
I saw Hadestown at the weekend - even better than the last time! I saw it in 2018 and was like ‘hmm, I see why people like it but it didn’t set my world on fire’. This time I enjoyed it way more, though I find its politics good but depressing.

details under cut )

Hamilton

Oct. 4th, 2024 12:11 pm
lokifan: Esmerelda with text "justice!" (Esmerelda: justice)
A couple of my flatmate [profile] sodsta’s American cousins were in town this week, and yesterday they took us to see Hamilton! Which was really lovely of them - they were good seats too, in the stalls. I was a bit like “...but you said you saw Hamilton in Chicago? We’re theatre people, there are so many great musicals we could recommend!” but I’m glad it worked for them, haha, cos it was great. And it was my third time seeing it on-stage, so clearly it stands up to repeat viewing!

more Hamilton thoughts )

Medea

Aug. 25th, 2023 01:46 am
lokifan: Azula: you should've feared me more (Azula: you should've feared me more)
I love reading other people’s reviews/reactions, so I’m going to try writing them more often. I’ll need to work up to books, but I can do theatre :) I saw Medea a little while ago at Soho Place, and it was brilliant. Stylistically, the play felt very similar to how it would’ve been at the time; it was performed in the round, a la ampitheatre, with a bare minimum of props. The declamatory style was, naturally, a radical contrast to anything I’ve seen on stage recently.

I went in knowing nothing more than ‘Medea kills her children as vengeance on her husband’. cut for details )

RL, lately

Mar. 31st, 2017 10:03 pm
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The downside of having a working sleep schedule for even a couple of days seems to be that I can’t nap. Which is sad because I love naps and I’m fucking exhausted. I have a touch of tonsillitis I think (my body is a wonderland for that particular disease - I’ve had it upwards of 15 times in my life and I’m 27) and I’ve been working a lot.

Which on one level is great - not least because I can’t think of another month in my life thus far where spending £200 on tickets to see Cursed Child one more time would be a detour on my paying-off-debt goals but totally possible as opposed to massively out of reach. BUT IT IS AND I’M GOING AND I’M SO EXCITED. :DDD The cast is changing very soon, and while I’m sure the new cast will be great, I’m so grateful I’ll be able to see them all again. Noma and Jamie Parker will be especially hard to replace in my heart.

But oh god I’m so tired. bit about work )

I missed you! I’m so sad to have missed the sign-ups for H/D Remix and HP Threesomes and to not have had anything in the Ron/Draco fest. But life’s been very busy. Before my epic work weeks, I’ve been Doing London all over the place. Which is nice! Because London actually has a lot of free/low-cost-for-what-it-is stuff, and doing them is part of what makes the rent and the air pollution and the noise one thousand percent worth it, so that I can’t imagine loving anywhere else like this.

I went to the British Museum’s Crick Crack Club collaboration. storytelling, a musical, Hidden Figures )

I saw a rock musical about Lizzie Borden and Get Out as well, but that’s another post.
lokifan: by unlockable (Korra/Asami)
You can tell by how late I am posting this how much I’m interested-yet-not-in-the-fandom. And yet: so many opinions! There'll be another post about "who you really are? it doesn't matter" and stories.

First off: I really enjoyed most of it. I totally get why those who enjoy Sherlock for the, er, Sherlock Holmes elements - solving mysteries - would be disappointed by the relative lack of it. But I share with Mark Gatiss a serious taste for Gothic horror, and that was in evidence not just in the opening sequence but really throughout: an old house, family secrets, a mad, posh family degenerating. I like the shlocky horror too. So I was basically down for that.

It also meant I wasn’t really bothered by Sherlock having forgotten his sister. The mind is sort of amazing when it wants to repress, but more importantly family secrets and voluntary amnesia, and repressing the existence of unpleasantly realities until they force their way into the light? It’s really bloody Gothic and the episode laid its cards on the table right away with that mad opening sequence. So while I really do sympathise with people being infuriated by unrealistic or implausible moments, the psychology hung together for me and I’m all about taking the story on its own terms, within the genre it’s chosen for itself. Sherlock may have a lot of justifiably irritated fans who came for a murder-mystery story as the series has often been, but I didn’t find the shift too difficult.

more thoughts on the finale, some more rageful than others )
lokifan: "i'm so enlightened I glow in the dark" (enlightened)
Will reply to comments later, sorry - I’m off to see Cursed Child for the fourth time again! With [livejournal.com profile] mywitch! YAYYYYY!

I’m not in Sherlock fandom but I’m sort of fandom-adjacent; I’ve read a bit of fanfic, and I have enough friends who’re in the fandom and enough awareness of fandom at large to have a (very) vague idea about it and its reactions. And I’ve caught up so I wanted to post this before the last episode airs. Now as ever you’re welcome to disagree; I’ve got dear dear RL friends who are also fans I disagree with on some stuff I’m a lot more invested in :D

Although I imagine the real disagreement will come from the shortly-forthcoming post about queerbaiting and Epic Friendship, because it will involve defending Cursed Child :P

Please to not spoil the next episode, I know nothing!

spoilers for Sherlock series 4 so far )
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Part two of my massive rambling Cursed Child post be here. This is getting more into plot, thematic stuff, and particular scenes/moments. spoilers abound, natch )

Sleeptime for me now :) I promise I’ll catch up on comments tomorrow!



joomla visitor

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That was stunning. Truly one of the best pieces of theatre I've ever seen; maybe the best. And I see quite a bit of theatre. As a production in itself it’s slick, funny, emotional, brilliantly put together. And I loved the story.

I can totally see why I heard a couple of people say they thought the idea sounded silly or “like bad fanfic” but as I thought at the time, "a lot of great theatre would sound ridiculous if you just explained the plot”. And yeah. I’m now reading the script and again, I can easily imagine how that would be “meh” which I’ve seen several times, including from non-fandom people - but in performance it is honestly BRILLIANCE. The script, as a friend of mine said, is maybe 5% of everything.

Sorry, I’m aware that I’m very lucky to live within thirty minutes of the West End, and that is probably a really annoying thing to hear. But it’s true.

I’m going to assume you’ve read or seen the play, but if you want me to explain stuff in comments I totally can!

This turned out to be many many words, so I’m going to put it in two parts for all our sakes. This is the stuff about specific characters, and then the next post will be everything else.

okay, SO MANY SPOILERS )
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I SAW CIVIL WAR YOU GUYS

I AM SO RELIEVED. SO SO SO RELIEVED

I don’t think I’ve talked about it much here? But I have basically been freaking out about what would happen with Natasha for six months. More, really. I adore Natasha in every film except Ultron. I didn’t hate her there, she just felt… not right, to me. Maybe I’d feel differently if I watched it again; I only watched it once and it was a shock to see her ~soothing the savage beast and all that. Ultron really shook my faith in the franchise, basically. And because civil rights are like, the political issue that brought me out to my first protest when I was a wee Lokifan, and the question of accountability and power in superhero films is such a big thing, and Natasha is a hero but she’s also a SHIELD agent as-was, and she was on Tony’s side argh oh God please don’t make me hate her or ignore how fundamentally the Civil War conflict gets at Natasha’s core traits…

staying together is more important than how we stay together )

non-Natasha stuff )

Well that was 1800 words of opinions. Disagreement welcome as always, btw. I am much nicer about real people who disagree with me than superheroes :D



joomla visitor

lokifan: black Converse against a black background (Hanna)
I suddenly realised I wrote this massive reaction post and then failed to actually post it. SO.

Many spoilers, because this is a reaction to the Pretty Little Liars A reveal.

the prettiest little liar of them all )
lokifan: black Converse against a black background (Martha: power of stories)
I am off to Eastercon in a little bit. Just for the day, sadly, but there are lots of fabulous people I'm excited to see again, and I'm bringing along a book or two I hope to get signed :D

The subject of fabulous people and signed books has made me realise I never posted about Roz Kaveney's “Resurrections”. This is a scandal and outrage.

It's the third book in a quartet, and is where a lot of ongoing mysteries pay off: obviously this review could very easily be STUFFED with spoilers. I am going to avoid them heroically, however.

So these books are up the street of a LOT of you, I think. queer ladies in a fantasy that's epic and urban at once with twists and turns and many many great side characters )

Those of you who've read are welcome to spoil in comments but please put a warning in the subject line/first line.

And now I'm going to quote a few of my favourite lines from Revelations because the prose really is very pretty. These are more spoilery but not for any of the OMG twists or anything. It's difficult though – a lot of my favourite lines are perfect because this is the third book, and they reflect really nicely on the characters and themes and imagery that have come before, so if you're coming to it cold they won't have the same effect. Still, pretty.

out-of-context pretty )
lokifan: black Converse against a black background (Peter/Neal: I own you)
This is scattered reactions to the first three episodes of S6. I haven’t seen 604 or 605 yet but I will very soon, so feel free to spoil in comments.

an old friend of mine )
lokifan: Film!Thor & Loki side-by-side (Thor/Loki)
Oh! I saw Guardians of the Galaxy a little while ago, by the way.

You guys were right – it's definitely funny )
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IDK, guys. [livejournal.com profile] dora_the_nymph has totally got me into this fandom: she negotiated me into starting watching it, I caught up on Glee series 5 hanging out with her, and her Tumblr is where I have done the entirety of my poking about the fandom. I do love me some meta, always :) And I rewatched the start of season 5 and caught up, and yeah. Now Glee 515 )
lokifan: black Converse against a black background (Natasha)
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER. Saw it last night with a friend and friend’s boyfriend and it was SO GREAT. I thought I’d wait until I’d seen it a second time and had more Thoughts to post, as is generally my habit, but I cannot possibly wait. spoilers spoilers ALL THE SPOILERS )
lokifan: black Converse against a black background (Hanna)
OMG guys I seriously CANNOT WAIT for tonight’s episode. I’ve been loving Pretty Little Liars even more than usual and OMG THEY’RE GOING TO TELL HER.

I imagine by the time I see comments for this I’ll have seen 420, but I have NOT BEEN SPOILED FOR ANYTHING so no spoilers beyond there, thanks!

we all know who had a thing for younger girls )
lokifan: Elsa (Elsa: let it go)
I wrote most of this on Thursday night, and then Friday involved a really stressful, unpleasant conversation with my mother where she accused me of mooching off them (she then said that had been harsh, tbf, but… yeah) and was all “Middle Sister came and talked to me about her job problems, why didn’t you”. Anyway, I cried and had a terrible stress headache for hours and the whole day was generally a write-off. Today has been better (HURRAY for Mum being out all afternoon and evening, and my darling cousin Jacksparrow coming over and hanging out all night) but it took me a bit to get to this post.

I just saw Frozen! I liked it a lot, although I think new Disney films are often a bit of a dicey proposition for those of us who grew up during Disney's second golden age – I mean, it's already tough watching a film that's joining a canon I have these very strong childhood attachments to. But I definitely liked it and I think I'll like it more on re-viewing; certainly have now downloaded a bunch of the soundtrack. The snowman ended up being cute when I thought he’d be vastly annoying, I didn’t see the twist coming at ALL, and omg the act of true love made me cry a tiny bit.

Plus I've downloaded the “Let It Go” sequence and watched it three times. It's great, and by far the best song in the film, and I love Idina Menzel and I love Elsa, and I love a song that carries a central metaphor all the way through and uses it in a bunch of different ways (see also: why Wicked is my favourite musical.) Also, it seriously ~speaks to me given the queer reading of Elsa that jumped out at me )
lokifan: Image of River's diary, text "spoilers" (Spoilers: DW)
Went and saw Iron Man 3 again today (70 000 VND for a 9am ticket, fuck yeah) so I thought I would actually post some thoughts. Not that I have that many thoughts; I want the DVD NOW so I can watch 'em in a marathon and rewatch and do some of that meta thing. For now I mostly have FEELS.

WAR MACHINE ROX )

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