Comments on: Analysis:The Female in the Orestia I http://www.tololy.com/2006/01/18/analysisthe-female-in-the-orestia-i/ Tag free. No labels. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:41:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Fedaykin http://www.tololy.com/2006/01/18/analysisthe-female-in-the-orestia-i/#comment-1122 Fedaykin Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:50:00 +0000 http://tololy.com/?p=190#comment-1122 I agree that plays shouldn't necessarily be "modernised" but there's the eternal question of relating them to current events, and it can be taken to stupid levels; A lot of the theatre I saw when I was at drama school used the hip, trendy idea of making references to the "War on Terror" and the invasion of Iraq...Julius Caesar, a play about the Baader-Meinhof Gang, even a re-doing of Hecuba. And they did it very poorly. But sometimes, things are done subtely and very well...can't think of an example, to be honest, but there are ideas in my head, especially when it comes to Shakespeare. I mean, how much more perfect can Romeo and juliet and Othello be? Rival Clans? Jordan! Suspecting your wife's fidelity so you kill her? Jordan! There are themes that people can relate to without compromising the play itself. We need to see more of that and less heavy-handed crap. In my not-so-humble opinion anyway. I agree that plays shouldn’t necessarily be “modernised” but there’s the eternal question of relating them to current events, and it can be taken to stupid levels; A lot of the theatre I saw when I was at drama school used the hip, trendy idea of making references to the “War on Terror” and the invasion of Iraq…Julius Caesar, a play about the Baader-Meinhof Gang, even a re-doing of Hecuba. And they did it very poorly.

But sometimes, things are done subtely and very well…can’t think of an example, to be honest, but there are ideas in my head, especially when it comes to Shakespeare. I mean, how much more perfect can Romeo and juliet and Othello be? Rival Clans? Jordan! Suspecting your wife’s fidelity so you kill her? Jordan!

There are themes that people can relate to without compromising the play itself. We need to see more of that and less heavy-handed crap.
In my not-so-humble opinion anyway.

]]> By: Devil's Mind http://www.tololy.com/2006/01/18/analysisthe-female-in-the-orestia-i/#comment-1121 Devil's Mind Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:54:00 +0000 http://tololy.com/?p=190#comment-1121 obviously i was reffering to that ;) obviously i was reffering to that ;)

]]> By: Tololy http://www.tololy.com/2006/01/18/analysisthe-female-in-the-orestia-i/#comment-1120 Tololy Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:41:00 +0000 http://tololy.com/?p=190#comment-1120 Devil's Mind, I thank you for having taken the trouble to post your comment. I respect you opinions about mythology, and I do know that it comes across to many people as a waste of time. I think otherwise, however, and yet, to each his/her own. You are not a nobody, unless you were referring to Manson's lyrics! Devil’s Mind,

I thank you for having taken the trouble to post your comment. I respect you opinions about mythology, and I do know that it comes across to many people as a waste of time. I think otherwise, however, and yet, to each his/her own.

You are not a nobody, unless you were referring to Manson’s lyrics!

]]> By: Devil's Mind http://www.tololy.com/2006/01/18/analysisthe-female-in-the-orestia-i/#comment-1119 Devil's Mind Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:14:00 +0000 http://tololy.com/?p=190#comment-1119 quite honestly, i dont really like neither history nor mythology... to me they just seem like senseless gossip: 'have u not heard: X did this', 'have u not heard: Y did that', 'did u know that A loves B?' but anyways, who am i to judge... a nobody... so, u know.. quite honestly, i dont really like neither history nor mythology… to me they just seem like senseless gossip: ‘have u not heard: X did this’, ‘have u not heard: Y did that’, ‘did u know that A loves B?’
but anyways, who am i to judge… a nobody… so, u know..

]]> By: Tololy http://www.tololy.com/2006/01/18/analysisthe-female-in-the-orestia-i/#comment-1118 Tololy Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:06:00 +0000 http://tololy.com/?p=190#comment-1118 Fedaykin, I studied the Orestia, affirmative. Aeschylus is brilliant, and naturally so is Sophocles. You may wish to learn ancient Greek should you desire to grasp the original drama. I do not think Greek theatre should be "modernized" to fit into our lives. We should realize that it was written in a specific atmosphere and with certain criteria in mind, be those in the audience or the topics handled, taking theatre out of its original context would definitely, to use your word, "butcher" it. Fedaykin,

I studied the Orestia, affirmative. Aeschylus is brilliant, and naturally so is Sophocles. You may wish to learn ancient Greek should you desire to grasp the original drama.

I do not think Greek theatre should be “modernized” to fit into our lives. We should realize that it was written in a specific atmosphere and with certain criteria in mind, be those in the audience or the topics handled, taking theatre out of its original context would definitely, to use your word, “butcher” it.

]]> By: Fedaykin http://www.tololy.com/2006/01/18/analysisthe-female-in-the-orestia-i/#comment-1117 Fedaykin Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:47:00 +0000 http://tololy.com/?p=190#comment-1117 You've read the oresteia? Cripes! That makes you one of what....four people in Jordan? Well done! Can't say I'm a fan of Greek theatre, especially Aeschylus. Sophocles is an exception...I like Antigone a lot. But anyway, I digress; the reason I dislike Greek theatre is because plays are written with a lot of obscure references and in-jokes that a modern audience won't get, and which translators often butcher...getting the balance right between staying true to the text and making the play interesting to the modern reader fails too often in my humble opinion...what do you think? Still, the stories themselves are great! You’ve read the oresteia? Cripes! That makes you one of what….four people in Jordan? Well done!
Can’t say I’m a fan of Greek theatre, especially Aeschylus. Sophocles is an exception…I like Antigone a lot.
But anyway, I digress; the reason I dislike Greek theatre is because plays are written with a lot of obscure references and in-jokes that a modern audience won’t get, and which translators often butcher…getting the balance right between staying true to the text and making the play interesting to the modern reader fails too often in my humble opinion…what do you think? Still, the stories themselves are great!

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