Slog - Comments on The Three Musketeers at Seattle Rep http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep It’s hard to fathom why a major theater like Seattle Rep is doing The Three Musketeers right now--unless its total irrelevance to the outside world, the reprieve it offers from contemporary anxieties, is the point. If so, one expects a richly imagined, temporally transporting, violent, romantic, swashbuckling escapist fantasia, with funny asides thrown in. But it is none of these things. In order for it to hold anyone’s attention--what with the gripping theater that is the election/economy swirling all around us--these French guys would really have to go after each other with those swords, really sweat and fight and bleed.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:52:46 -0800 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:10:57 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by hillside_hoyden However, The Night Watcher, which is also at the Rep through the end of the month, is really great. Go see that instead.

]]> hillside_hoyden http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1171791 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1171791 Theater Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:03:22 -0800 Comment by paulus the poster is nice

]]> paulus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1171811 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1171811 Theater Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:14:35 -0800 Comment by Simac Maybe they're just too insular and not participating in world discourse about literature.

]]> Simac http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1171831 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1171831 Theater Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:39:19 -0800 Comment by MEC The play suffers from trying to please everyone. The plot is for a more mature audience; the jokes are for a young audience. Moreover, there was more hamminess and buffoonery than I could stomach; the sort of over-inflated characters you see in a high school play.

I've heard good things about Night Watcher. I wish I'd seen that one instead.

]]> MEC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1171856 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1171856 Theater Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:56:41 -0800 Comment by Very_Sad Doesn't anyone go out without their kids anymore? Are all the babysitters unemployed? Why does all Seattle theater (including the rep)have to be so damn family friendly? Clearly the script writer never read the Dumas book.
It was a cute show and resembled the Disney version and I can't think of anything worse.

]]> Very_Sad http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1176729 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1176729 Theater Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:14:07 -0800 Comment by jack Well if everyone follows what Mr. Frizzelle has to say, he'll be out of a job, because everyone is at home watching tv. I believe I was at the same show and I remember hundreds of people having a pretty good time.

]]> jack http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1177634 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_three_musketeers_at_seattle_rep#c1177634 Theater Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:10:57 -0800