Advantages: Amazing, Funny, Length, Value Disadvantages: None
...always been a fan of Derren Brown. I'm not sure if just his amazing acts or his wit, or even a mix of the two but whatever it is, I find him and his stunts spectacular. Unfortunately I was unable to see his Live show of 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' so obviously I was excited upon discovering it's arrival to DVD, and boy was my excitement well placed.
-The Show-
The show itself is extremely entertaining. Derren is his usual self from ... ...see it for yourself...
Derren always announces at the start of each show that his acts feature a range of 'magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship', which obviously make his acts what they are. All misdirection aside I have no idea how he is able to perform some of the displays this show feature. What makes this particular show excellent, and perhaps different to his televison alternatives, is that it features not only feats ...
Advantages: Good insight into characterisation Disadvantages: Short clips of the actual play
...useful resource for anyone studying The Winter's Tale. It is a good way of reminding you that the text was written to be performed and allows you to view the way the actors and director have interpretated the text. Different interpretations of the text are useful from an exam point of view however I would recommend reading the text before watching this DVD because it can be hard to shake this directors interpretations from your mind after watching. ...
Advantages: Fantastic acting, lurid characters, excellent drama! Disadvantages: VERY long but worth every minute!
This filmed version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's famous production of 'Nicholas Nickleby' is utterly timeless. In hours and hours of non-stop entertainment, virtually the whole novel is transposed to the stage, and much of Dickens's original lurid prose survives this translation. The huge cast narrates and dramatises the lengthy tale, encompassing virtually every theatrical genre. There is pantomime-style audience participation, farce, melodrama, ... ...the adventures of the young Nicholas Nickleby and his family. It opens as the Nicklebys arrive in London after the death of their father, and seek the support of their rich but harsh uncle, Ralph Nickleby. Nicholas is sent to become a schoolmaster in Yorkshire. The cruelty he finds there launches the story's main action. Nicholas finds himself Ralph's enemy, as well as the enemy of the headmaster, Wackford Squeers, and his grotesque family. On his ...
Advantages: Fantastic performers and players Disadvantages: None really
The cirque du soliel was "born" in 1984 from a group of public entertainers in Quebec Canada, and within ten years were taking their "reinvention of the circus" around the globe, with six shows on permanent tour and two based in the USA ( one in Vegas, and one in Disneyworld Florida)
There are no animals, stupid clowns or any of the associated circus tomfoolery I knew as a child, this has been replaced by a show encompassing artistic players, focussing ... ...or Chinese, it seems that cirque trawl the world for the best acts and then recruit them.
Quidam is a show directed by Franco Dragone, revolving around an "everychild" living with self absorbed parents, who is whisked away to a surreal world were cirques' artists and acrobats literally take flight, there tools are oversized flying rings, an open steel wheel large enough for a man to stand in, skatebords, ropes, beautiful strength and balance acts, ...
Advantages: it will probably make you giggle, Disadvantages: you won't learn anything from it
...not achieve this at all. Pink Paradise is considered a ‘high class’ striptease venue near the Champs Elysees in Paris and I would say the purpose of the DVD was actually intended to promote the club rather than to teach us anything.
It’s a bit of light-hearted fun and should be taken that way. With an RRP of £19.99 I certainly wouldn’t waste my money on it but it was a funny and memorable part of the hen night. If you want to learn to strip tease ...
