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SEAFARER!!!
Feb. 3rd, 2008 10:04 pmI have Ciaran Hinds's autograph! And those of a couple of other guys as well - the guy who played the protagonist in Seafarer, and the guy who played Ivan. What a cast! Like my sister, I've admired Ciaran Hinds for years, but all four of the other fellows were just as good, and the play was amazing. Our younger sister got the tickets, and the three of us went with our parents.
I don't want to spoil anyone who might see the play and doesn't know what it is about, but I will say that Conor Macpherson is one of a very few modern authors who deal seriously with spirituality. He raises issues like grief, guilt, and the possibilities of redemption and damnation and makes them just as vivid and terrifying as they ought to be. On top of this, all of us were laughing out loud all through the play - and, on top of this, there was a speech (a drunken man's meditation on a bluebottle fly) that was as beautiful, for both the language and the ideas, as anything I have heard or read in the past five years. It was just an amazing experience - but I said that already.
If you get a chance to see this play, please see it! I am just so happy and thrilled that we were all able to go and experience it together.
(On a side note, because I can't help myself, Ciaran Hinds is one of a list of actors who constitute part of my 'evidence' that Snape's actually part Irish. He's got the right coloring and cast of features - as do Daniel Day- Lewis, John Lynch, and Gabriel Byrne - Irishmen all.)
I don't want to spoil anyone who might see the play and doesn't know what it is about, but I will say that Conor Macpherson is one of a very few modern authors who deal seriously with spirituality. He raises issues like grief, guilt, and the possibilities of redemption and damnation and makes them just as vivid and terrifying as they ought to be. On top of this, all of us were laughing out loud all through the play - and, on top of this, there was a speech (a drunken man's meditation on a bluebottle fly) that was as beautiful, for both the language and the ideas, as anything I have heard or read in the past five years. It was just an amazing experience - but I said that already.
If you get a chance to see this play, please see it! I am just so happy and thrilled that we were all able to go and experience it together.
(On a side note, because I can't help myself, Ciaran Hinds is one of a list of actors who constitute part of my 'evidence' that Snape's actually part Irish. He's got the right coloring and cast of features - as do Daniel Day- Lewis, John Lynch, and Gabriel Byrne - Irishmen all.)
