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Member since: March 26, 2008
Starr Hardgrove is a theatre artist living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is graduate from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Theatre and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Arkansas (ABT). In 2008, he became one of three founders of the Actors Company of Tulsa of which he is currently the General Director of the company. Starr lives with his girlfriend Bonny and their cats and dogs in the Tulsa area.
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I love that we have Jeremy Geiger in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This guy is a talented individual that is an asset to the Tulsa theatrical community and I'm glad to have shared the stage with him
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“Be the change you want to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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I just want to absolutely applaud the Odeum Theatre for coming to the plate on this one...this is a great idea and a trend that needs to be expressed in Tulsa theatre.
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The five act structure is actually a Roman invention.
Also, the average length of the attention span of a human is approximately 9 minutes. We pay attention to things that are a lot longer, but there are attention spikes that peak our interest. See this article:
http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/05/zen-of-presentations-part-26-attention.html
Kudos to the Nightingale for producing a great play, the four hours being the time it took to tell the story. This follows in the tradition of Epic Theater produced by Bertolt Brecht and others such as Tom Stoppard's recent play The Coast of Utopia (339 pages somewhere around 9-12 hours of play), and of course all six hours of Angels in America Peristroika and Millenium Approaches. I have actually set through this and found it not so boring.
In the McDonalization of society (where fast food permiates our culture in every aspect) we want it fast and bite size. Maybe the goal is not to cut down the script, but to make it more bite size so that the audience can eat it. Or at least digest it.
Being an actor in the piece, I'm biased. But a biased opinion can sometimes spark a great conversation. I believe that is something that the Nightingale has continued to do efficiently, which is push the boundries of what theatre is and what it can accomplish.
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I am actually starting to feel as paranoid as Roarshach in the sense that I am starting to think I am the only one who actually didn't like this movie. I felt like Zach Snyder took me out into the parking lot and beat me up for about an hour while showing me some pictures of pretty houses. Sure, the Watchmen was a beautiful movie, and some of the scenes were just amazing in the way that they were set up and shot. But about half way through, I got the same feeling I got when I was watching A.I., in which Stanley Kubrick died halfway through making the movie and Stephen Speilberg took over, why didn't this movie end earlier. Even The Dark Knight which you referred too, should have ended after Harvey Dent was revealed as Two Face, I could have done without the rest of that movie.
The Watchmen, around the time when Silk Spectre and Night Owl got together, just seemed gratuitous at best. Now I have talked to people who have read the book and those who haven't, and I would suggest that you buy the book and read it cover to cover before you see this movie, because I hypothesize that you will be able to fill in the blanks that are left in the story much better if you do that.
Just some thoughts
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