Saturday, November 27, 2010

Beauty and the Beast @ Citizen's Theater

EAP UK and Ireland hosted one last event for the year - dinner at TigerTiger and watching Beauty and the Beast. The food was yummy. The play wasn't that great...

Pretty poster. Oddly enough Beauty from the play was not the girl on the poster. False advertisement...


The acting was way dramatized. Every time Beauty screamed aloud from having a nightmare, it left my ears ringing. Every time Beast roared "NEVER!" or growled/gruffed/roared, my heart jumped. By the end of the play, I was very agitated and annoyed. It was nothing like Disney's version of Beauty and the Beast. So no Mrs. Potts, no Chip, no Lumier... I think it's because of a copyright issue? Anyways, the plot was interesting.

But the ending horrified me! The Beast did not turn back to a human. But it's still a happy ending because Beauty still loves Beast and they supposedly live happily ever after. Ahem... but can you see the problem with this relationship? -_____- I guess the moral of the story is that you should love the person for who they are inside. Sure, this would make sense and the end would be satisfying if you were eight. But what about the older audience?! When the rest of us were exiting the theater, I overheard their discussion about the ending. Yups, we all were a bit disgusted...

1 comment:

  1. Haha, I love this review. Doesn't sound like a winner!
    I have just finished studying abroad, what a whirl wind. It's odd to be back home...
    Are you still blogging? You should keep it up!!xxx

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