Gavin Kostick's Memory
Just in case any of you missed it, Gavin Kostick dropped by the comments (also below) to correct my assumption about his performance of The Heart of Darkness. As this was but one of two shows that Gavin had up at the Fringe this year, and was to consist of Gavin performing the entire text of Conrad's novella, I had taken for granted that the playwright would be reading the text.
No, siree, there was to be no such whimping out for our man: Kostick LEARNED BY HEART the entire text, and then performed it over the course of five-and-a-bit hours. Beside a stinging disappointment that I missed such a show, my strongest feeling is a sense of admiration for the Kurtzian single-mindedness of the approach. No wonder that Sara Keating (writing in The Irish Times) awarded the show five big stars. If that ain't "The Spirit of the Fringe" then i dont know what is. Rrrressspect!
No, siree, there was to be no such whimping out for our man: Kostick LEARNED BY HEART the entire text, and then performed it over the course of five-and-a-bit hours. Beside a stinging disappointment that I missed such a show, my strongest feeling is a sense of admiration for the Kurtzian single-mindedness of the approach. No wonder that Sara Keating (writing in The Irish Times) awarded the show five big stars. If that ain't "The Spirit of the Fringe" then i dont know what is. Rrrressspect!
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posted by luke clancy at 12:38 PM
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Thanks for that Luke. It was a blast really. It felt like sitting doen to perform Beethoven. If you thought about all the quality of the work, and it's meaning and all the notes you'd freak yourself out something rotten. So I just had the opening line of each section clear in my head and let it go - and tried to communicate the thing as clearly as I could. Very satisfying.
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