{"id":20398,"date":"2025-04-17T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20398"},"modified":"2025-04-20T08:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:29:56","slug":"daily_3698_-_1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/04\/17\/daily_3698_-_1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3698 &#8211; <i>1984<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ingrid and I saw <i>1984<\/i> at Stadsteatern.<\/p>\n<p>During much of the performance, sound was provided through headphones. It felt odd and kind of gimmicky at first, but it also worked. Winston&#8217;s quiet musings and diary entries could be delivered quietly, intimately. And the subtle hints of there being someone else there, prompting him and asking questions, also worked because these sounds could be subtle, barely there. A whisper is no longer a whisper if it is delivered through a loudspeaker, or by an actor projecting his voice through a hall.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise: intense, minimal, true to the original. (To the extent that I remember the original, which I last read, oh, thirty years ago?)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3698_theatre_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3698_theatre_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3698_theatre_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingrid and I saw 1984 at Stadsteatern. During much of the performance, sound was provided through headphones. It felt odd and kind of gimmicky at first, but it also worked. Winston&#8217;s quiet musings and diary entries could be delivered quietly, intimately. And the subtle hints of there being someone else there, prompting him and asking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,15,4,768,797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-dailies","category-ingrid_johanna","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20403,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398\/revisions\/20403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}