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bad review

by thespian @ 2008-04-06 - 23:08:58

it must have been bad ...

my local paper was scathing about an amateur dramatic production of 'art' this week.

there were two stars, apparently - one was an actor, but the other was the prompt, the paper's acidic reviewer wrote. the other two performers forgot their lines so many times, it was embarrassing.

ouch!

i can't remember the last time i saw a bad review in a local paper.

i used to write them in my young newspaper reporter days, and i always made allowances - especially when i got a free cup of tea and sponge cake at the interval.

so, like i said, this must have been bad and i'll be learning my lines even harder from now on!

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jenray ^pro
http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
2008-04-06 @ 23:29

public humiliation must be so awful...good luck with your play...LOL...added incentive now...great big hugs...XX

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thespian ^pro
2008-04-07 @ 18:42

i know all three actors, and i'm just glad i wasn't one of them!

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jenray ^pro
http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
2008-04-07 @ 21:51

Oh, dear, even worse...I've just watched a film I recorded this morning from Sky Indie called 'Those Foolish things' Terence Stamp, Angelica Huston, Lauren Bacall, Joss Ackland, Roy Dotrice and Julia MacKenzie were amongst the host of younger actors in it...it was about a play that just happened to have its opening night on the day war broke out...I have no idea why but, apart from Terence Stamp, who played a butler, and who definitely had the best lines, it just didn't gel...basically it was boring...It looked like a stage play that was made into a film and it didn't work...you would have thought with a sterling cast like that it would have zinged along, but it limped along sadly...there definitely has to be that something extra to make a film or a play live, and, if it's not there, you know it...sorry about your friends...they must be gutted...big hugs...

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thespian ^pro
2008-04-07 @ 22:23

they always say there's a fine line between success and failure.
the main thing is that these things only work when everyone is on form.
it only needs one person with attitude or just having a bad day to spoil the whole thing.

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jenray ^pro
http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
2008-04-07 @ 23:12

I don't think it was that in this case, it was a case of the nasties being so caddish as to be revolting...and both were gay...one was the main characters cousin without one redeeming quality so unreal and his associate, an actor who had got to big for his boots and was a gay with no qualms about drugging some guy and using him with autoeroticism thrown in, which I found rather over the top...the odd thing was it was classified a 12, and Ray and I thought it had some things in it that should have made it at least a 15...but there we go...big hugs...

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