Product Details

• Actors: MARILLION
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: EMI CANADA
• DVD Release Date: August 5, 2003
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000A14WC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,069 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Recital Of The Script DVD is an extended version of the 1983 VHS, now featuring the full 87-min. concert as well as a featurette of extra performances and backstage footage. Track list: Script For A Jester's Tear, Garden Party, The Web, Chelsea Monday, He Knows You Know, Forgotten Sons, Market Square Heroes, Grendel. Extra Tracks Filmed At The Marquee, London 1982: He Knows You Know, Backstage Footage, Market Square Heroes (Excerpt), Interview With Fish.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Live DVD !, August 18, 2003

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Frank Houde (Montreal, PQ Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MARILLION - RECITAL OF THE SCRIPT (DVD)

Great LIVE DVD with Fish in 1983,

Unlike the original tv clips (Kayleigh as example), the songs are complete, even Grendel for a long 18 minutes !!!!

If you like Marillion for the same reasons, the electric guitar and Fish's voice, you will love this DVD.

As a bonus, the crowd is very quiet !!!!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Short, but oh so sweet!!!, December 4, 2004

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Highsticking99 (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MARILLION - RECITAL OF THE SCRIPT (DVD)

I've been a fan of Marillion (Fish era only) since I stumbled across a tape in a record store in Phoenix back in the early 80's. If you like your music thoughtful (both lyrically and musically), provocative and intelligent, this DVD is a must have. It's worth the purchase price for the performance of "Forgotten Sons" and "Market Square Heroes" alone (two of their best). The DVD doesn't have alot of frills but the interview with Fish is a high point. I miss the band very much but am thankful I saw them on the "Clutching at Straws" tour in Germany in 1987, Fish then leaving the next year.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Finally got this, April 13, 2005

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warhead "just another wanker" (United States of Authoritarianism) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MARILLION - RECITAL OF THE SCRIPT (DVD)

Picked up "Recital of the Script" a couple weeks ago and finally got a second look at the DVD.

Taken from a Hammersmith Odeon concert in '83, this is the Marillion I remebered and enjoyed.

When I first heard "He Knows, You Know" - which gets a good performance - I just knew I had to pick up their music. They're a cross between Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) and Rush, making them a...yah, I know...prog-rock band.

Fish (Derek Dick) is a dynamic singer and lyricist, if pretentious and self-indulgent. His voice is so idiosyncratic that when he left the band, I just could not listen to the new frontman. Steven Rothery is an underrated guitarist who's very expressive and is complemented by Mark Kelly on the keyboards. The rhythm section provides solid backing.

The high point is "Forgotten Sons" - no surprise there but I must admit that my two favorite songs - "Cinderella Search" and "Assassing" - are not on the setlist. If only "Real to Reel" was filmed(?)...I got the CD in '84 as an UK import.

The disc is in stereo and 4:3 format with meager extras - the highlight being an interview with Fish. The video and audio quality is acceptable.

Hey, maybe I'll indulge my curiousity and pick up a post-Fish album after this nostalgic treat.