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Your first look at Emma D'Arcy, Kayla Meikle and Ben Whishaw in Bluets 🔹

Bluets by Maggie Nelson, in a new stage adaptation by Margaret Perry plays in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs 17 May - 29 Jun

Tickets are extremely limited. Book your tickets now at the link in bio 🔗

Via(@ royalcourt) on X.

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

First look at Bluets at the Royal Court Theatre

[pommedepersephone]

"I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem."

Reading Bluets by Maggie Nelson in preparation for going to see the stage performance this Friday. I will be going alone, the seat next to me that I paid for in hopes of having a companion join me unfilled, and I cannot decide whether this is poetic self fulfilment or bitter irony when considering my favorite line from the book...

Anyway, have the morbs, will be better after a front row view of Ben Whishaw on stage 💙

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The lead actors of the new play discuss bringing Maggie Nelson’s seminal, lyrical book – which explores heartbreak, pleasure and pain – to the stage

MAY 16, 2024

[laserpinksteam]

Film after film: Medusa Deluxe (dir. Thomas Hardiman, 2022)

It's a bit a film about nothing, but it's extremely watchable. The plot is simple, it deflates weirdly and interestingly by its end: there's an art-hairdressing competition, and someone gets murdered. Everyone stays in the industrial building that the competition was to take place and waits, reacts to, and gets anxious about the murder. The film's main trick is that it pretends to be one continuous shot, which conditions the plot's development: there are three people in the room, someone leaves, the camera follows them until they get elsewhere, where there are other people, and so on. There are some beautiful performances here, especially from Perkins, who's the film's prickly heart. The ending can annoy, but I loved it.

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Medusa Deluxe

directed by Thomas Hardiman, 2022

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Medusa Deluxe Review- A Murder Mystery Set At A Hairdressing Competion Doesn't Make You Pull Your Hair Out

A few years ago, there was a horror comedy based on women’s hair called Bad Hair. As in the hair was the killer in this film. I had no idea anybody could do such a thing. The latest film centered around women’s hair is called Medusa Deluxe. It’s from the BFI and A24, and they usually invest in good things. The story and most of the actors are entirely new, but there are things about this movie…

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New Trailer | MEDUSA DELUXE (dir. Thomas Hardiman)

"A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession. "

Coming soon.

[ulrichgebert]

Weil es so schön war mit Clare Perkins schauten wir gleich noch Medusa Deluxe, wo sie als hervorragende, aber etwas unausgegliche Frisuerin an einem Frisierwettbewerb teilnimmt. Dummerweise wird einer der Teilnehmer ermordet. Es ist einer dieser Filme, die ihre Geschichte in einer Einstellung und in Echtzeit erzählen, aber diesmal sehr hübsch und nicht so mutwillig und mit überzeugenderem Zeitplan wie bei den Köchen hier, obwohl todesmutig treppauf treppab und drinnen und draußen; Herr Hitchcock hätte seine helle Freunde gehabt. Als Murder Mystery an sich ist es jetzt nicht soo aufregend, aber man wird durch zahllose Over-the-Top-Darbietungen und -Frisuren reichlich entschädigt.

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Medusa Deluxe (2022) Thomas Hardiman

March 8th 2024

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Bluets... I am not actually sure what I have seen, it's not like any other play out there. The actors all playing the same character start sentences only for one of the other to take over, each one stands in front of a screen with different backgrounds on it (bathroom, pool, hospital, driving in a car, the tube), and then one of these is projected into a big screen above the stage, as two of the other casts are talking. So you look at the screen, then the actor, and then also at the other two and this switches constantly for 80 minutes. Dont think my attention could stretch beyond that. Don't think I will be reaching for the book, but it was a fantastic experience to see live.

[pommedepersephone]

Bluets at the Royal Court Theatre was... transcendental.

To take such a unique work, an internal dialogue composed of chunks of non-linear prose, a stream of conscious study of heartbreak and grief, and create a cohesive performance, was done masterfully. The show's Live Cinema style was unlike any show I have ever seen.

Because the book affected me so deeply, I knew the show was likely to do the same. What I didn't expect was that I would silently sob for the entire duration of the performance. I am emotionally flayed.

This was such an intense show, emotionally and technically, that I have a hard time imagining many other theatres trying to produce it. But if you ever have the chance, please see this show.

Thank you to Kayla, Emma and Ben for these absolutely heart-rending performances.

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Medusa Deluxe

Medusa Deluxe    [trailer]

A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest.

The movie profits from its unusual and colourful setting. The hair creations are certainly eye-catching. Though the murder mystery itself is a bit thin, and it takes a while until you can identify all the characters. It helps that many of them are quite interesting.

As it's often the case with "one-shot" movies, the film struggles a bit to create tension with the characters often having long walks in and around the building to get to the next scene. But it makes you wonder on what location the movie was filmed.

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From @WhishawUpdates...

The Royal Court Theatre announces BLUETS starring Ben Whishaw as part of their 2024 Season. Fri 17 May - Sat 29 Jun.

More info

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feeling insane in this chili’s tonight