Giveaway: Ophelia

Ophelia
Th-Su @8pm, though 11/23
Blue Theatre (map)
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We liked Tutto Theatre's production of Ophelia. It's an interesting show, featuring five strong actresses portraying various aspects of Ophelia's psyche: in love, impassioned, on edge, undone, and in water. One actor holds down the fort as both Hamlet and Polonius, and together, the group "creeps between the pages of Shakespeare's Hamlet...[and] gives voice to literature's most woefully underwritten female."

[Congratulations to our winner!]

Tickets are $15 at the door or can be bought online. Thursday are Pay-What-You-"Can" with a donation of a canned food item to benefit Hope Food Pantry of Trinity United Methodist Church ($12 sans can).

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By Julie Holden in Arts & Entertainment on November 13, 2008 5:00 PM 0 Comments

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Jooley Ann

And by the way, who is the winner and how did he/she qualify for the tickets??

Yesterday when this posted, there was a webform readers could fill out to enter for tickets. After receiving lots of entries, we selected a winner at random and closed the contest by removing the webform.

All of our giveaways work that way. Hope that helps!

Michael_in_Austin

It didn't work for me.

Maybe because Wills’ script is a dog’s breakfast of texts, mixing contemporary adolescent slang (“Oh, shit!”) with pseudo-Elizabethan talk with Shakespeare’s 24-carat verse from other characters or other plays jammed unexpectedly into the mouths of the Ophelias.

I found the text tiresome and pretentious, like the quotes from Chaucer, Kafka and Peter Brook in the program and the “Hamlet, in brief” summary found there (c’mon – if some idiot doesn’t know the plot or Ophelia’s part in it, how can he possibly absorb it from a 26-line summary that includes everything, down to the kitchen sink of Fortinbras – who, by the way, did not “arrive from the conquest of England”).

This is not meant to take away from the zeal or attention of the actors in the piece. All five Ophelias, in their, oh, dear, pre-Raphelite stereotypical dresses, are earnest, vulnerable and convincing in their efforts to deliver that much afflicted child/woman.

For full review, see

http://austinlivetheatre.blogspot.com/2008/11/ophelia-tutto-theatre-company-at-blue.html

And by the way, who is the winner and how did he/she qualify for the tickets??