Speaking of historically dubious, I was at a thingy for the Joffrey Ballet the other night, with a guy who's just created a new ballet for them based loosely on Jane Austen. Loosely as in it's sort of inspired by that milieu, rather than taking any of the story elements. But anyway, he had the costume designer with him, and they were talking about how they had conceived and researched the general set and costume look to reflect that inspiration. Quite fascinating, but I snorted when the designer kept going on about Renaissance fashions. Um.
And then afterwards I got a look at the marketing materials which again talked about Jane Austen and the Victorian era. Double um.
Much amounts of ~ma for Mr. Kitty, sarameg, and for you.
I'm a lot like you Sophia, with ideals on costumes. Right now my fall production, Fools, is a lose interp of 1890's Ukraine with a heavy influence of farce and fairy tale.
I hope the vet calls with good news soon, sarameg.
Gaming peoplr--do you have any recs for Nintendo DS games that would be good for 9 year old girls?
Are historically accurate costumes more important in movies than in theatre?
To me, yes. Theater isn't trying to present itself as the final say on the subject, where - just by the static nature of the medium - film often does. I'm not saying filmmakers have that goal, it's just that - with how real moves look and act and all of that, I expect costumes/props/locations to be accurate, as well. Unless, of course, the filmmaker is going for an anachronistic effect (see Coppola's Marie Antoinette).
...any recs for Nintendo DS games that would be good for 9 year old girls?
One of my cousins about that age is devoted to her Nintendogs.
OK, who's playing the head pirate? He looks damned familiar.
Two new dances learned on Yo Gabba Gabba:
1) The Baby Isaac - by DJ Lance
2) The Puppet Master - Elijah Wood (I'm sure you can imagine how that would go)
Theatre to me is a stripped-down version of reality. It only has to suggest. Movies and television are depicting a whole world. I'm okay with movies that create some kind invented place that never was, but in this case, they appear to be trying to roughly place it in the original Crusoe era, the 18th century, minus the actual clothing and mores of the era, plus guns that shoot more than once and certain liberties with the laws of physics.
