Bygone Theatre kick started our ticket contest at the beginning of the year, and we are thrilled to run another contest for “Dial M for Murder”, the original play that Alfred Hitchcock turned into a featured length film. The show is running from August 15-17 at 8pm in the Robert Gill Theatre, with a 2pm matinee on the 17th. This is an up-and-coming theatre company to keep an eye on in Toronto!
The rules for the contest are simple. To enter, retweet the contest, like it on facebook, and our favourite, share your stories about the the most unusual venue you’ve experienced performing arts in the comment section below.
Contest closes this Wednesday at 5pm so get your entries in!
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Carolina
August 14, 2013 at 9:40 pmThe strangest venue I’ve ever seen for performing arts is . . . television.
What, you think tv is ordinary? Hah. Besides being a miraculous flickering box that shows moving pictures from far away, television has its own strange power.
Have you ever watched a play on tv? What is mesmerizing in the theatre becomes oddly foreshortened. The willing suspension of disbelief becomes more difficult, as the oddly-flattened images of the sets begin to look more and more distantly removed from reality, less solid, more fake. Light and shadow become oddly noticeable, and the timbre and quality of the voices and music both change. Somehow, to eyes accustomed to the polished shooting of Hollywood, a real performance, when replicated on the tiny screen, becomes a parody of itself – quiet when it should be loud, garish when it is really gentle, blase when, if you were really in the theatre, it would be at it’s most powerful.
Yes, I have watched many a theatrical performance on television, and enjoyed them, too. But to say that tv doesn’t do *something* to live performances, something strange and not altogether pleasant, would be a lie. And thus, tv is the strangest venue for the performing arts.