Theatre Fun
Apr. 29th, 2005 12:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedJust got back from seeing the One Man Lord of the Rings. And it was far too much fun.
It's just one actor, Charles Ross, on a bare stage doing the entire trilogy in an hour. That's twenty minutes per movie and yet it all makes a perverse kind of sense. (I'm sure it helps if you've seen the movies an, ahem, excessive number of times.) Ross' Gollum is absolutely perfect, as is his far-too-tear-prone Sam. Of course, in my opinion, there was far too little Boromir. And I don't think I'm ever going to be able to watch Denethor sending Faramir off to his death without giggling, just a little. (Not a good thing.)
I tried to see this when Ross did it at the Fringe last year, but tickets were impossible to get. I'm just very glad he brought it back for Harbourfront's World Stage fest.
It's just one actor, Charles Ross, on a bare stage doing the entire trilogy in an hour. That's twenty minutes per movie and yet it all makes a perverse kind of sense. (I'm sure it helps if you've seen the movies an, ahem, excessive number of times.) Ross' Gollum is absolutely perfect, as is his far-too-tear-prone Sam. Of course, in my opinion, there was far too little Boromir. And I don't think I'm ever going to be able to watch Denethor sending Faramir off to his death without giggling, just a little. (Not a good thing.)
I tried to see this when Ross did it at the Fringe last year, but tickets were impossible to get. I'm just very glad he brought it back for Harbourfront's World Stage fest.
