The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Review: Fat Pig (again)" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/06/review_fat_pig_again.php Comments for the entry "Review: Fat Pig (again)" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:38:24 +00:00 Comment from Rullsenberg Very nice - and apropos your Joanna fest this week - hey not a problem here! Good to see that by attending a second performance you've been able to see just how flexible stage work is for being both a developing and a responsive act. Especially funny that (a) Webb reads and comments on reviews and (b) that he hated the DM one so much. Well, that's not difficult to understand is it!?

]]> 4138@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24131 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:38:24 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Not at all. Here's his explanation: "There’s a lot of confusion out there - especially from the Daily Mail guy who took a deeply sexist swipe at Jo Page. Obviously, one doesn’t expect that much from the Mail but he also managed to get one of the character names wrong which was - well, pathetic."

And here's Quentin Letts review. See what you think.

]]> 4138@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24132 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:43:19 +00:00 Comment from Jane Henry I'd love to see it, but probably won't get a chance to, so thanks for both reviews, which will have to do instead... And I do absolutely see Robert Webb as romcom hero material since Confetti, which I loved. His relationship with Olivia Coleman was deeply touching, though my kids haven't come to terms with the fact that he took his clothes off.

]]> 4138@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24133 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:14:31 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob The cast of Confetti were all great - just a shame about the script!

Reading between the lines, I'd say another Fat Pig cast member wasn't too happy with Quentin Letts' review either...

]]> 4138@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24154 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:59:17 +00:00 Comment from Anonymous I thought Joanna Page a relentlessly shrieking harpy and utterly unsympathetic. Which was quite disappointing since the last thing I'd seen her in was her adorable turn in Love Actually. (I'm American, so I hadn't seen her TV work.) Her American accent was beyond dreadful. Why on earth did she need one? There are plenty of UK citizens working in the states, especially in large cities. It would be perfectly plausible for her to use her own dialect and NOT subject us to that monotone, garbled, blaring mess.

]]> 4138@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c26008 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:58:50 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob You expected her to be playing the same sort of role? In a Neil LaBute play? Okay...

I'm guessing there are two reasons why she's doing a US accent:
1) The play's written in American English, not British English, so all her lines would need to be 'translated', unless we're assuming her character had been there long enough to speak fluent American English, except not long enough for her accent to change
2) She'd look pretty daft if everyone else was doing a US accent and she wasn't

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