{"id":10594,"date":"2007-08-24T21:32:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T01:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/08\/24\/10594.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:56","slug":"i-dont-get-out-enough-clearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/08\/24\/i-dont-get-out-enough-clearly\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t get out enough, clearly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My Gracious Host listed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/08\/23\/3985.html\">Top Six theatrical performances<\/a>, which got me thinking. Sadly, I couldn&#8217;t come up with a Top Five, so here is a Top Four.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/Copenhagen+1291.twl\">Copenhagen<\/a>, by Michael Frayn, with David Burke, Matthew Marsh and Sara Kestelman. Directed by Michael Blakemore, in 1999, I think, the West End transfer. Just knocked me out. A great play, a great cast, all kinds of good.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckellen.com\/stage\/richard92\/index.htm\">Richard III<\/a>, starring Ian McKellen, at the Curren Theater in SF, 1992. Directed by Richard Eyre. There&#8217;s an interesting sort of interview\/presentation by the Knight Out on R3 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stageworkmckellen.org\/\">Stagework<\/a>, which led to a lot of pleasurable time-wasting on my part.<\/li>\n<li>Largo Desolato, by Vaclav Havel, trans. by Tom Stoppard, Yale Rep. 1990. Jan Triska in the lead part, directed by Gitta Honegger. It is still the only Vaclav Havel play I&#8217;ve seen performed, and when I saw it, I hadn&#8217;t read any of his stuff, either. Looking back, the reviews were pretty negative, and I suspect the production left much to be desired, but it was wonderful to me, and confirmed my love for a certain kind of absurdist theater.<\/li>\n<li>La Cage aux Folles, with Peter Marshall and Keene Curtis, probably in 1986, a touring company of the production directed by Arthur Laurents. Lovely, probably tremendously formative. I had already more-or-less memorized the songs, if I remember correctly; it was one of my first experiences of seeing a show I was already fond of.<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>I could have filled in a fifth with any one of a dozen or so shows&#8212;<I>Picasso at the Lapine Agile<\/I> or <I>Shlemiel the First<\/I> at the American Repertory Theater, the national touring company of <I>Angels in America: Millenium Approaches<\/I>, <I>Mrs. Warren&#8217;s Profession<\/I> at the Huntington Theater Company, a <I>Comedy of Errors<\/I> at the Globe in London&#8212;but none of them stand out from the others at the moment, so picking would really be arbitrary. Besides, I&#8217;m sure that there was something wonderful that I&#8217;ve forgotten and I&#8217;ll think of tomorrow. Or, perhaps, it&#8217;s best to leave the last slot open for the next wonderful play I&#8217;ll see.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Gracious Host listed a Top Six theatrical performances, which got me thinking. Sadly, I couldn\u2019t come up with a Top Five, so here is a Top Four. Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn, with David Burke, Matthew Marsh and Sara Kestelman&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theeyater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18088,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions\/18088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}