I don't know how Saoirse feels about this. It's been a great show. But I'll be happy she'll finally be able to rest her
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canvro — 9 years ago(July 01, 2016 04:46 PM)
This was a week ago, is an interview (in dutch) of Mr. van Hove, google cannot translate this specific keyword but it seems is expressing praise
Is it scary to work with all those stars and top producers?
"No, that touches me at least. I'm only concerned with my art. Saoirse Ronan was nominated for an Oscar, but had never played theater before The Crucible. I've worried about it and I have also told the producer Scott Rudin. But they turned out to be a rasactrice. I am privileged that I can work with the world's greatest actors. Who want to be challenged.
original:
Is het eng om met al die sterren en topproducers te werken?
Nee, dat raakt me minimaal. Ik ben alleen met mijn kunst bezig. Saoirse Ronan was genomineerd voor een Oscar, maar had vr The Crucible nog nooit toneel gespeeld. Daar heb ik me wel zorgen over gemaakt en dat heb ik ook tegen de producent Scott Rudin gezegd. Maar ze bleek een rasactrice te zijn. Ik heb het voorrecht dat ik met de allergrootste acteurs ter wereld mag werken. Die willen uitgedaagd worden.
source:
http://www.nrc.nl/handelsblad/2016/06/23/ik-voelde-me-veilig-bij-bowie-2845714 -
Steve7216 — 9 years ago(July 08, 2016 08:18 AM)
Here's an article from a young writer who was very impressed by the acting he witnessed while watching The Crucible:
http://tinyurl.com/jy3e8br -
jlent — 9 years ago(July 10, 2016 09:03 AM)
No, she's not, and she makes no mention of it in her Twitter feed. She's not even in NYC so I doubt this is Abigail.
Saoirse's understudy is Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, who, on a daily basis, plays one of Abigail's compatriots among the witch accusing girls, but she makes no mention of it in her own twitter feed, either:
https://twitter.com/ashleischestnut -
Poetswan — 9 years ago(July 10, 2016 05:33 PM)
I wonder if the strain in her voice is affecting her accent in the performances:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.php?thread=1094608 -
jlent — 9 years ago(July 10, 2016 05:55 PM)
I doubt that's it. I've been looking for a word to describe the lack of power in her voice and I've settled on three. No theatrical richness. The voice is loud enough. It just doesn't carry weight the way Sophie Okonedo's does. It has never been noticed in film, where it just doesn't matter as much.
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jlent — 9 years ago(July 10, 2016 08:39 PM)
I can only go by my own experience, having seen the production in March and again in May. The accent was the same in both and the shouting was just barely toned down a bit in May, I assume to preserve her voice as much as she could.
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jlent — 9 years ago(July 12, 2016 03:29 AM)
The headline reads:
Its as if Saoirse Ronan was born in the theatre - Ivo van Hove
But the article has only two paragraphs mentioning her:
Like many of Van Hoves innovations, one requirement for his cast is as nerveless as it is revealing: every actor must have their lines learned before day one. Nobody rehearses with a script in hand. That must have been daunting for Saoirse Ronan, in her first ever stage role as The Crucibles Abigail Williams.
That was amazing, Van Hove says of Ronan. She comes, of course, from a theatre family. After two days rehearsal, I told her it was as if she was born in the theatre.
It's an Irish newspaper. These things are to be expected. Here's the whole thing:
http://www5b4.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/it-s-as-if-saoirse-ronan-was-born-in-the-theatre-ivo-van-hove-1.2715211 -
jlent — 9 years ago(July 17, 2016 11:45 AM)
The Crucible is 15 minutes away from its final performance as I write this.
Here's a nice goodbye article, an interview with Ben Wishaw. No mention of Saoirse, but he does praise the cast in general and gets into the emotional toll the play took on him.
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/ben-whishaw-on-brexit-beards-and-life-after-the-crucible-20160708 -
jlent — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 10:53 AM)
Box Office for the Crucible run. Steady all the way through. Sold out one week, almost sold out a few others. Uptick in final week. Made a total of $11.7 million.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/THE-CRUCIBLE# -
canvro — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 06:17 PM)
During an interview for the RTE Radio1 program "Inside Culture" director Ivo van Hove talks, among many other things, about Saoirse Ronan in the Crucible, I don't know if the link is permanent,
http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=b9_10634717_22498_17-10-2016_
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jlent — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 07:04 AM)
Stand back, canvro, this calls for a true obsessive who, without stenographic skills, would listen over and over just to get it right. I cleaned it up a little but this is just about verbatim.
The interviewer asked Von Hove to talk about Saoirse and Ciaran Hinds, "two of our best-known actors."
Von Hove: "Well, first of all, Saoirse, of course. It was her first play. She never was in the theater before. I knew her from the movies but it was a little bit of a risk, eh? (chuckles) because we didn't know.
"But, of course, her parents are theater people so she was almost born in the theater. You could feel it after two days. I always rehearse a play chronologically and her part, the first act she's there all the time then she's not there so much anymore, but the first act she's really there. So I had to rehearse all day the first days and after two days I said, 'Well, you're a natural, you know.'
"She really had a huge theatrical instinct. The difference between movies and theater is in the theater you have to design your own space. As an actor, it makes a lot of difference when you're in the back of the space or in the front of the space or left in the dark or in the light and she had a real instinct of where to be in that space.
"And also in movies, of course, you don't have to use your speaking muscle that much and here in the theater you have to and she really worked like a dog to make that work because it's also training. You have to train the muscle and it was every day for a thousand people so it's a huge audience.
"She was great. She was in the middle of the Oscar craziness but at the rehearsal, she was really there, totally with us and she was not looking at her mail or telephone calls or anything. She was there committed totally to us. She's a really hard worker, a great artistic spirit and an actress with a huge imagination."