The play came four years before the film, which I understand is a filmed version of it. The key thing in the play is the puppets, which are not only awesome but produce a distancing effect - watching the simulated death on screen of real horses would be much more disturbing for me than watching the puppeteers retreat slowly off stage. The play is a full-on theatrical experience; I've never been in a cinema where the bangs are as loud and shocking as real bangs, and the singing is more in place on stage than on screen.
It's like the difference in experience that I had with the stage version of "Evita" and the film version (whose chief redeeming feature was the presence of Antonio Banderas)
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Date: 2014-09-11 05:46 am (UTC)It's like the difference in experience that I had with the stage version of "Evita" and the film version (whose chief redeeming feature was the presence of Antonio Banderas)