Those who missed Tuesday's panel on theatre criticism at the Wheeler Centre will be able to catch up with it next week, when all the Critical Failure dialogues (on film, literature, theatre and visual art) will be put online at the
Wheeler Centre site. Meanwhile,
Crikey's anonymous theatre correspondent
gave us a pretty positive review: "It turned out a wonderful little four-hander, almost like a well-made play, with secrets revealed, old conflicts revived, touching reconciliations, impassioned monologues, moments of general disorder, comedic repartee and plenty of merry-andrew buffoonery." Ha!
Well that certainly beats a review we got for a similar event up in Edinburgh: http://loserville.tv/2010/08/loserville-does-edinburgh/
ReplyDeleteGosh - it sure does. That review certainly proves Cameron's smartarse point about illiterate monkeys on teh internetz. But then, your blog proves my point, so we end up square.
ReplyDeleteThe "internet has (some) rubbish on it" analysis is not particularly revelatory ....
ReplyDeleteInterested if you've had any further thoughts TN re: the theatre critic's role in building theatrical literacy/engagement, beyond this 'internet v. broadsheet newspapers' paradigm?
Was Stephen too harsh on contemporary Australian theatre's relative political irrelevance?
Well, after that Crikey write-up, I'm looking forward to hearing the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteHi George - I hope it doesn't disappoint you, then!
ReplyDeleteJ-Lo - I wrote a piece on during the election in response to lectures by Jonathan Mills and Bill Henson, which more or less covers my thoughts on the political marginalisation of art (Sewell is quite right) - it's in the August archives, and is titled A Matter of Art, if you're interested.