hiddlesfashion:If you haven’t listened to the Intelligence Squared Dickens vs Tolstoy podcast yet (w
hiddlesfashion:If you haven’t listened to the Intelligence Squared Dickens vs Tolstoy podcast yet (what are you waiting for?!?) I made life slightly easier by labeling the performances. *I’m not 100% certain on the order of female voices, I will update any errors once the video is releasedDickens(10:05) Great Expectations performed by Zawe Ashton, Timothy West, and Kit Kingsley. (18:15) Bleak House performed by Tom Hiddleston(22:11) Great Expectations performed by Zawe Ashton and Julia Sawalha. Narration by Timothy West.(30:03) David Copperfield performed by Zawe Ashton, Julia Sawalha, and Timothy WestTolstoy(41:27) Hadji Murat performed by Tom Hiddleston(50:00) Anna Karenina performed by Julia Sawalha and Zawe Ashton(56:38) Anna Karenina performed by Tom Hiddleston and Julia Sawalha(1:02:26) Anna Karenina performed by Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton(1:09:12) War and Peace performed by Tom Hiddleston and Zawe AshtonAlso at the end there’s a question period where Bonnie Greer asks the company how different it is to perform based on prose (a book) rather than a playtext, Tom answered (1:19:01): The interesting thing about both Tolstoy and Dickens is the richness of description. With a play you just have the dialogue and so.. you’re basically looking for subtext because underneath the meaning of the things people say are the things people mean. Sometimes they don’t say what they mean. Whereas with Tolstoy and Dickens you’ve got these long passages of where both writers invite the reader into the mind of the protagonist or of the character. So that Tolstoy piece with Levin waiting for Kitty to give birth is actually in the third person but it’s written with such a momentum that it feels like it’s in the first person in some way. Actually that’s true of all. If you’re ever in a situation as an actor where there’s a book. It’s such a blessing because you can go to the book and look at all this interiority to shore up the exterior which is what we have to present as actors. -- source link
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