tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post111395619473539008..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: Two BrothersAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1117923555528517062005-06-05T08:19:00.000+10:002005-06-05T08:19:00.000+10:00Thanks, Jeremy - I really appreciate your posting ...Thanks, Jeremy - I really appreciate your posting your take on Two Brothers here!<BR/><BR/>It was interesting reading it: I think this is one of those instances where we'll have to agree to differ. <BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/><BR/>AlisonAlison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1117877252423699212005-06-04T19:27:00.000+10:002005-06-04T19:27:00.000+10:00Two Brothers is obviously off the radar now in Mel...Two Brothers is obviously off the radar now in Melbourne. The Bolt has been shot! But in Sydney, it's provoking much interest - though not the same newspaper furore.<BR/>Personally I can understand the anger of the thundrous Bolt - for Two Brothers is a piece of dangerous political drama that just might get through to the relaxed and comfortable minds of 1000s of MTC/STC subscribers and undermineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1115798243319281222005-05-11T17:57:00.000+10:002005-05-11T17:57:00.000+10:00Thanks Ben: quite. Pieties and lack of questionin...Thanks Ben: quite. Pieties and lack of questioning exist on both left and right, but I have to say that the most aggressive trampling of debate seems to stem from the right wing. Andrew Bolt, with his mischievous qoting out of context and bizarre and emotive distortions of fact, is only typical.<BR/><BR/>There's a fairly good summary of Campus Watch activities at <A HREF="http://Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1115792445114746882005-05-11T16:20:00.000+10:002005-05-11T16:20:00.000+10:00Jens,Evidence was called for: detail it. Unless yo...Jens,<BR/><BR/>Evidence was called for: detail it. Unless you detail it, how am I as a reader of theatrenotes able to weigh it? What did you say? Were you shouted down? Or were you simply questioned and became too defensive to push past the boundaries of your own set ideas? I'm not saying that you necessarily have set ideas, but without the detail I detect evasiveness.<BR/><BR/>And what's the Ben Ellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16654820455368893078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1115632587227004692005-05-09T19:56:00.000+10:002005-05-09T19:56:00.000+10:00Hi Jens - what's the evidence for the "right-think...Hi Jens - what's the evidence for the "right-thinking" that is "shoved down students' throats"? Most committed and decent teachers are about teaching students how to think critically about complex things. <BR/><BR/>There's a very large difference between opening out debate, and the kind of McCarthyist campaigns that are unsettlingly happening in the US via organisations like Campus Watch, which Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1115619576850289112005-05-09T16:19:00.000+10:002005-05-09T16:19:00.000+10:00Hi JensSounds like an interesting article, but it'...Hi Jens<BR/><BR/>Sounds like an interesting article, but it's hard to comment without having seen it. What immediately troubles me is a fear that it fits rather neatly with the recent push on US campuses for "objective" teaching, which is really a right wing campaign aimed at clamping down on academic freedom and shutting down dissent. It often presents itself in the guise of claiming that suchAlison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1114723369377086252005-04-29T07:22:00.000+10:002005-04-29T07:22:00.000+10:00Hi JeremyI have always felt very uneasy about the ...Hi Jeremy<BR/><BR/>I have always felt very uneasy about the primacy Hannie gives to research. But that's an argument not unconnected with what I say in the review. Writers should know what they're talking about, but they're not documentary makers: legitimate "research" for a playwright might, perhaps, involve reading Ibsen - who is probably worth comparing with this work, because he succeeds Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1114655398981498202005-04-28T12:29:00.000+10:002005-04-28T12:29:00.000+10:00I have not yet had an opportunity to see Two Broth...I have not yet had an opportunity to see Two Brothers - it arrives all too soon in Sydney. But I'd be fascinated to prepare myself by your thoughts, Alison following my reaction to Hannie's previous play, Inheritance. Here she researched furiously throughout Western Victoria and clearly had got "into" the country as far as the issues she raised. <BR/><BR/>Land ownership in both its black and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1114227843612808112005-04-23T13:44:00.000+10:002005-04-23T13:44:00.000+10:00Thanks Angela - your comments are much appreciated...Thanks Angela - your comments are much appreciated! It's also nice to know that my responses are interesting to those who haven't seen the shows. I always hope they are!<BR/><BR/>Very best<BR/><BR/>AlisonAlison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1114168488136650102005-04-22T21:14:00.000+10:002005-04-22T21:14:00.000+10:00Dear Alison,thank you for yet another incisiveand ...Dear Alison,<BR/><BR/>thank you for yet another incisive<BR/>and thoroughly researched report and<BR/>review of a stage play. Currently,<BR/>I can't afford MTC and Playbox productions, so it's great to have access to theatre vicariously <BR/>through blogs like yours.<BR/><BR/>We can only hope that Andrew Bolt will come across your posting and ponder his uncanny resemblance to certain theatre Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com