Farnsworth
Feb. 28th, 2008 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerWe just got back from seeing The Farnsworth Invention, and loved it. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deliasherman promises to be profound about it, so I'll just say that I wanted to see it because it was co-written by Aaron Sorkin (whose original West Wing is one of my favorite treats ever), despite the fact that various respected friends have said it was dull, too talky . . . yeah, well, Tom Stoppard is talky, too. I adore stuff you really have to listen to in order to follow. Plus, I thought the staging was pretty absorbing & theatrical. You know what was boring? 300 was boring. We tried to watch it last night, but after about 20 minutes of "Ooo! Pretty!" it got pretty, well, boring. Except for the giant exploding rhino. We did like that. Farnsworth had no giant rhinos, but 300 did not have lines like "Music is what Mathematics does on Saturday night." FI is closing March 2, so grab tix if you're interested; it's on TDF and BroadwayBox.com. Can't go? There's a trailer on the website.
deliasherman promises to be profound about it, so I'll just say that I wanted to see it because it was co-written by Aaron Sorkin (whose original West Wing is one of my favorite treats ever), despite the fact that various respected friends have said it was dull, too talky . . . yeah, well, Tom Stoppard is talky, too. I adore stuff you really have to listen to in order to follow. Plus, I thought the staging was pretty absorbing & theatrical. You know what was boring? 300 was boring. We tried to watch it last night, but after about 20 minutes of "Ooo! Pretty!" it got pretty, well, boring. Except for the giant exploding rhino. We did like that. Farnsworth had no giant rhinos, but 300 did not have lines like "Music is what Mathematics does on Saturday night." FI is closing March 2, so grab tix if you're interested; it's on TDF and BroadwayBox.com. Can't go? There's a trailer on the website.