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Post by crabtree on Jun 22, 2020 20:15:28 GMT
I'm afraid I am resolutely allergic to most projections passing as theatre design, as I am allergic to CG sets and backgrounds in film, and that is my failing, but I have just watched the witty, moving, playful and powerful NT's Small Island, and it was full of ravishing projections creating stunning imagery that allowed the epic story to flow with the editing of a film. Even so I a good physical transformation scene in a theatre still takes my breath away.
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Post by barrowside on Jun 24, 2020 14:39:07 GMT
I'm not a fan either but I loved the used of projection in both War Horse and Sunday in the Park with George. In neither case were they used to skimp on set but to give an impressionistic fluidity to the productions. I'm hoping to catch Small Island tonight before its gone.
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Post by Stephen on Jun 24, 2020 14:51:31 GMT
I think that Small Island is an example of projections being used perfectly. They're beautiful without distracting from the action onstage and perfectly compliment the pre-interval Windrush scene. The design of Small Island was great though and the lighting, projection and sets worked beautifully together.
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Post by crabtree on Jun 24, 2020 23:12:01 GMT
Yep Small island was a superb piece of theatre, and design, with a gorgeous colour palette and rich textures - and yes the projections kept it moving.I've seen many a ghastly use of projections though, that make me yearn for the stage craft of things like The Lion King and Poppins (though I loathe, ironically, the painting/statue scene,) and the joy of the Olivier drum revolve..
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Post by sf on Jun 24, 2020 23:46:45 GMT
I don't always love projections either, but sometimes they can produce something stunning. I've still seen very few set designs as visually thrilling as Jerome Sirlin's sets and projections for the original Toronto/London/Broadway production of Kiss Of The Spider Woman. The projections took you from the prison cell into Molina's imagined movie and back again in a split second, and they were often quite breathtaking.
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Post by crabtree on Jun 25, 2020 11:20:54 GMT
With Small island I couldn't work out the mechanics of the moving independent screen and how that had the images projected on it. Loved all the textured clouds and the hurricane.
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