Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Sunday chicken
More or less polished off cold for Monday lunch, after which the carcase was boiled up with carrot and onion, and, by way of a change, a good dollop of mashed potato. Some bone and bits from some grilled pork added towards the end of the boiling. Strained, added a bit of cooked, cold & chopped chicken back in, ditto pork. Then some of the flat noodles from Blue Dragon, simmer for 8 minutes and consume. The potato proved to be an excellent thickening, body giving ingredient.
Thus fortified off to see 'KaaFila', a hand me down from Bourne Hall Library which I had thought was a gritty tale about the misadventures of wannabee illegal immigrants in the middle of Asia, but which turned out to be a song and dance comedy about same. It seems that the Indians are sufficiently relaxed to make slightly black comedies about people throwing up their lives in India to try to make it, with the help of gangsters, to the UK. In the event, unable to watch it all the way through. Might have been better if one had not been dependant on the subtitles - not least because I suspect that some of the humour depended on the shifts between languages.
I then had a ponderous thought, prompted by some infelicities in 'Frost' - that is that it is hard to make television drama really realistic. The things are done on the cheap and there are always slips and cracks in the realism; little things which are not terribly important but irritate by looking wrong. A problem which can perhaps be more readily avoided in the more stylised, more oral world of the theatre where the thing is held together by the quality and rhythm of the language. One does not attempt realism in the way that television drama does, realism which we have come to expect - but does it add much to whatever, if anything, the piece is about? I am reminded of the observation that once, when performing, I think, Titus Andronicus, it was enough for someone to tie a red ribbon around a wrist to say that violence had been done. There was no need to more or less do it for real, on stage. Maybe the people who run the 'Globe' should take note.
PS: blog search being wayward again. Results are being put up in some apparently random order rather than in post date order again. And a search for noodles fails to find the post of April 8th while a search for costcutter does. And then subsequent searches for noodles do find it, the relevant entry seemingly having been poked into life. Whatever is their algorithm up to?
Thus fortified off to see 'KaaFila', a hand me down from Bourne Hall Library which I had thought was a gritty tale about the misadventures of wannabee illegal immigrants in the middle of Asia, but which turned out to be a song and dance comedy about same. It seems that the Indians are sufficiently relaxed to make slightly black comedies about people throwing up their lives in India to try to make it, with the help of gangsters, to the UK. In the event, unable to watch it all the way through. Might have been better if one had not been dependant on the subtitles - not least because I suspect that some of the humour depended on the shifts between languages.
I then had a ponderous thought, prompted by some infelicities in 'Frost' - that is that it is hard to make television drama really realistic. The things are done on the cheap and there are always slips and cracks in the realism; little things which are not terribly important but irritate by looking wrong. A problem which can perhaps be more readily avoided in the more stylised, more oral world of the theatre where the thing is held together by the quality and rhythm of the language. One does not attempt realism in the way that television drama does, realism which we have come to expect - but does it add much to whatever, if anything, the piece is about? I am reminded of the observation that once, when performing, I think, Titus Andronicus, it was enough for someone to tie a red ribbon around a wrist to say that violence had been done. There was no need to more or less do it for real, on stage. Maybe the people who run the 'Globe' should take note.
PS: blog search being wayward again. Results are being put up in some apparently random order rather than in post date order again. And a search for noodles fails to find the post of April 8th while a search for costcutter does. And then subsequent searches for noodles do find it, the relevant entry seemingly having been poked into life. Whatever is their algorithm up to?
# posted by Jim @ 2:24 AM 
