A Clockwork Orange
Aug. 15th, 2004 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidThursday night I went to the Company One production of A Clockwork Orange at the Boston Center for the Arts.
I thought it was a rather mixed performance. The set worked well, portraying a huge number of different places, and the lighting helped with that as well. The sound, when not Beethoven's 9th, was by the Dresden Dolls, which worked very well. Some of the music was from their CD, the rest new. Somehow I'd gotten the impression that they'd be performing it live, however, so there was mild disappointment that I was wrong. The acting, however, was mixed. I found that too much of the dialogue wasn't clear, which made the jargon that much more difficult to follow. The fight scenes were very choreographed, in the sense that I could tell it wasn't real. Not good from the production point of view (especially since there's so much fighting), but it meant that I didn't have the same issues I had with the movie, which shocked me the first time I saw it; it's rather like the film part of the conditioning Alex is forced to have. One part that I did think was done well was that the ending was in a different place: apparently the movie didn't use the end of the book it was based on. Having the extra scene left the play in a much more ambiguous place, one that could turn out to be positive in the end. And that was worth going for; I'd not realized that the story had a different ending than the movie.
I thought it was a rather mixed performance. The set worked well, portraying a huge number of different places, and the lighting helped with that as well. The sound, when not Beethoven's 9th, was by the Dresden Dolls, which worked very well. Some of the music was from their CD, the rest new. Somehow I'd gotten the impression that they'd be performing it live, however, so there was mild disappointment that I was wrong. The acting, however, was mixed. I found that too much of the dialogue wasn't clear, which made the jargon that much more difficult to follow. The fight scenes were very choreographed, in the sense that I could tell it wasn't real. Not good from the production point of view (especially since there's so much fighting), but it meant that I didn't have the same issues I had with the movie, which shocked me the first time I saw it; it's rather like the film part of the conditioning Alex is forced to have. One part that I did think was done well was that the ending was in a different place: apparently the movie didn't use the end of the book it was based on. Having the extra scene left the play in a much more ambiguous place, one that could turn out to be positive in the end. And that was worth going for; I'd not realized that the story had a different ending than the movie.