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Post by marion on Jul 31, 2019 19:00:32 GMT
The theatre group went to this today and having read the reviews I was expecting the worst, not helped by the fact that it is just over three hours. It stars Clive Owen as the sacked priest now tour guide, Anna Gunn (from Breaking Bad) as the widowed hotel owner and Lia Williams as the spinster portrait painter. Apart from developing a very numb bum (!!) I found it really enjoyable and it went down well with the whole group. I had heard there was an iguana on stage but luckily that proved to be untrue, or I would have been terrified it would escape. The tropical thunderstorm just before the interval was very well done, torrents of water and terrific lightening. In fact we saw Neville's Island there and there is a lot of water in that (people in the front row were given those transparent capes!) so perhaps the Noel Coward Theatre is a specialist venue!!! It was funnier than I was expecting but I admit it is a bit of a long haul. It runs until September 28th.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2019 19:27:08 GMT
What did they take out in the 1964 film? I seem to remember that it can at just under two hours. Have you any idea?
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Post by marion on Aug 1, 2019 21:50:40 GMT
I can't remember much about the film, I'm afraid. Its hard to see what they could leave out, although they could have gone a lot quicker generally! Were the German tourists/Nazi family in it? I didnt think they really added much, not that they took up a lot of stage time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 9:45:40 GMT
I have just found this which gives me some interesting insights: “A Second Place to Dwell”: John Huston’s Film Adaptation of The Night of the IguanaI especially find this interesting in light of how we are treating Sarah Phelps over her adaptations of Agatha Christie's works. Did John Huston get away with more because of who he was? It seems that he just cut out bits he didn't like, and he changed the ending a bit.
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Post by Miranda on Aug 2, 2019 10:25:08 GMT
IMO, it was partly that and partly that Huston wasn't messing with Agatha Christie. No other adapter has changed the character of Poirot or Marple the way she did with the former. They may have changed the plots a bit and added various characters and scenes but the detectives have always been regarded as untouchable. And the first few she did before Poirot, the changes didn't make any sense and a lot of it was done for shock, IMO. She didn't just adapt the book, she wrote her own story and called it an AC so people would watch it.
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