A Whole Lotta Drama

Layered Butter

All the world's a stage...and honestly, we're down for it. In this week's episode of Layered Butter, Rod, Raf and Jordan are joined by educator, all-around dance, drama and theatre aficionado, Lisa Fiorelli as they pull the curtain back on what it takes to be.....or not to be. From its humble beginnings in community storytelling to the rise of Shakespeare and then the Sorkins, Mamets and even the Mirandas - without theatre and drama, what would cinema even look like? Your story is enclosed across four walls of the stage; how does your characters traverse time, location and worlds in such a small space? In film we can cheat the world, cutting back and forth, to and from and forming emphasis with close-ups and wide shots. There's an energy in the immersiveness of theatre - each performance is a singular, lived event; every word, every scene and every decision is built in the now for the actor. How does that translate to film? We've got adaptations in Spielberg's West Side Story to even Joel Coen's Tragedy of MacBeth to even bottle films like Mass or Dogtooth...are these adaptations worth the transition? Also, the pod tackles D.A.R.E versus Euphoria, a potential new viral Twitter rant on A24 and have we heard enough about Bruno? Take a bow on this episode of Layered Butter!

Preshow:
The New Studio Ghibli Theme Park Opens:
https://unseenjapan.com/ghibli-park-opening-date-announced-as-nov-1st/
D.A.R.E Calls out Euphoria
https://consequence.net/2022/01/euphoria-glamorizes-drugs-d-a-r-e/
A24 Leaves Out Aziah King
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/zola-calls-out-a24-aziah-king-1235167280/

Film Club
Mass (2021)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11389748/