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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 346024" data-attributes="member: 22">I think I remember hearing the phrase &quot;electronic theatre&quot; in relation to UpDown. Episodes would be rehearsed in their entirety (aside from the location stuff) and then filmed like a play, so when you watch a scene, it&#039;s more likely to be one long unbroken performance rather than lots of takes edited together. (There will be exceptions here and there.) In one way, it&#039;s more exposing - you see the flaws and the artifice -but&nbsp; in another, it feels more &quot;real&quot; as it&#039;s all happening &quot;live&quot; in front of you. It&#039;s how all TV drama (and sitcoms) were made back then, but I guess UpDown feels that much more theatrical than, say, vintage Doctor Who or Coronation Street because one naturally associates those period costumes and big drawing rooms with old-fashioned theatre. (It&#039;s interesting to compare it to Brideshead Revisited, with which it has a lot in common and is equally brilliant, but was filmed entirely on location with a much bigger budget and so has a far more cinematic quality.)That would have been their daughter Kate who I did a play with about twelve years ago. She&#039;s really nice, down-to-earth, totally unspoiled (unlike some other actors&#039; offspring I&#039;ve encountered!) It&#039;s funny - I could have sworn she said her parents were unwed when she was conceived and that there was a bit of a fuss from the church about such a prominent couple living in sin and whatnot, but according to Wikipedia they were already hitched so I must have dreamt the whole thing - or somehow got them mixed up with Jesus of Nazareth and Babs from Pan&#039;s People.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 346024, member: 22"] I think I remember hearing the phrase "electronic theatre" in relation to [I]UpDown. [/I]Episodes would be rehearsed in their entirety (aside from the location stuff) and then filmed like a play, so when you watch a scene, it's more likely to be one long unbroken performance rather than lots of takes edited together. (There will be exceptions here and there.) In one way, it's more exposing - you see the flaws and the artifice -but in another, it feels more "real" as it's all happening "live" in front of you. It's how all TV drama (and sitcoms) were made back then, but I guess [I]UpDown[/I] feels that much more theatrical than, say, vintage [I]Doctor Who[/I] or [I]Coronation Street [/I]because one naturally associates those period costumes and big drawing rooms with old-fashioned theatre. (It's interesting to compare it to [I]Brideshead Revisited[/I], with which it has a lot in common and is equally brilliant, but was filmed entirely on location with a much bigger budget and so has a far more cinematic quality.) That would have been their daughter Kate who I did a play with about twelve years ago. She's really nice, down-to-earth, totally unspoiled (unlike some other actors' offspring I've encountered!) It's funny - I could have sworn she said her parents were unwed when she was conceived and that there was a bit of a fuss from the church about such a prominent couple living in sin and whatnot, but according to Wikipedia they were already hitched so I must have dreamt the whole thing - or somehow got them mixed up with Jesus of Nazareth and Babs from Pan's People. [/QUOTE]

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