skygiants

Onstage semi-diegetic music seems to be a National Theater Thing and overall I've liked it more than not, including in this production, but I am really impressed that we heard nobody in the audience laughing at "Crazy."

Extremely climby staircase sets also seem to be a National Theater Thing (3/4 of the productions so far). Jane on the coach with all the energetic running really delighted me. JOG JOG JOG JOG JOG.

I was really excited for the first half of the play by how close it was to the book, and how much of her early life it kept in, although that made me more startled whenever it did veer away -- like, why this and not that? -- or whenever it did drop a bit of dialogue that was important to me, personally. Which of course is always the danger of watching an adaptation of a thing you care about, it's too easy to get annoyed if they drop your Favorite Thing! But I think it was an interesting set of choices, overall. I'd love to hear DVD commentary from the scriptwriter.