tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post112936652593801965..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: MIAF: The OdysseyAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-23552639174182524832007-02-23T16:04:00.000+11:002007-02-23T16:04:00.000+11:00read first paragraph and last. spot on. will take ...read first paragraph and last. spot on. will take the rest as given. bread and circus for the sophisticates. But then kantor did start the new job with the declaration "We need more sex!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1140344941141793422006-02-19T21:29:00.000+11:002006-02-19T21:29:00.000+11:00Hi JonathanThanks for your most stimulating and in...Hi Jonathan<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your most stimulating and interesting response! I fear that you are largely correct that I listen to the text of any piece of theatre, and that it matters to me. Indeed, Wright's comment that you quote here - "if you want to delve into words, read a book" - strikes me as a rather weasel-like evasion of the whole question of utterance in theatre. If you're not goingAlison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1140339055722700852006-02-19T19:50:00.000+11:002006-02-19T19:50:00.000+11:00And so it goes. Croggon --- for all her wonderful ...And so it goes. Croggon --- for all her wonderful critical sophistication --- remains a fan of the writer's theatre. Wright and Kantor never have been. The supposed banality of the spoken language is, to my mind, hardly the issue (and frankly who cares --- as Wright once said to me, if you want to delve into words, read a book, dont see a theatre show). The visual imagination which Croggon Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1131406544630238302005-11-08T10:35:00.000+11:002005-11-08T10:35:00.000+11:00i couldn't agree more with this. A richly designed...i couldn't agree more with this. A richly designed work with all the bells and whistles but a thin and lifeless script. Horribly disappointing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com