tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post2025914239267814727..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: In Which Ms TN Discourses At LengthAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-60847950501260493172011-01-18T10:43:21.790+11:002011-01-18T10:43:21.790+11:00Apols David, been off line a few days and I stand ...Apols David, been off line a few days and I stand corrected, I was not aware of the Griffin initiave. And I should note then that WTF might cheer up the Powerhouse a bit to, despite the water... ;-)Zane Trowhttp://zanetrow.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-2016836810803756782011-01-14T10:01:10.673+11:002011-01-14T10:01:10.673+11:00Thanks David. Sounds like a positive addition to t...Thanks David. Sounds like a positive addition to the Brisbane landscape. (Which feels a bit odd to write given that so much of it is under water at present, but still.)Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-55840651437485410712011-01-14T09:12:21.760+11:002011-01-14T09:12:21.760+11:00Hi Alison,
I just thought I’d clarify one aspect...Hi Alison, <br /><br />I just thought I’d clarify one aspect of La Boite’s programming.<br /><br />The program that Zane mostly refers to is La Boite Indie. It’s modelled on the old B Sharp and on Griffin Independent (which I created while I was Artistic Director at Griffin, and was in turn modelled on B Sharp), and to a slightly lesser extent the Tower program at Malthouse. In other words, it’s David Bertholdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-47283679328932238082011-01-12T18:36:58.926+11:002011-01-12T18:36:58.926+11:00Thanks, Zane.Thanks, Zane.Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-85033095607455424712011-01-12T17:07:21.756+11:002011-01-12T17:07:21.756+11:00Well depends what you call alternative I'm afr...Well depends what you call alternative I'm afraid. Bertolt has basically turned a theatre company into a producing venue and he's taken up the model that has been established here by Metro Arts for years and claimed he's doing something new. Metro remains the only source of really good local independent theatre, some of it even looks and sounds contemporary now and again. I just feel Zane Trowhttp://zanetrow.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-5941448720045745512011-01-12T16:47:15.488+11:002011-01-12T16:47:15.488+11:00Hi Zane - ah yes, nothing like live art to pep up ...Hi Zane - ah yes, nothing like live art to pep up a conversation! And good luck there in soggy Brisbane. Here in Melbourne, we seem to have moved several latitudes up to the tropics, which is a little enervating. <br /><br />I'm curious to know your opinion about what David Bertolt is doing at La Boite. From down here, it seems to be becoming a hub for some interesting alternative practice?Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-67685578988317141882011-01-12T15:56:54.984+11:002011-01-12T15:56:54.984+11:00Just noting the Courier Mail in flooded Brisbane t...Just noting the Courier Mail in flooded Brisbane today devotes an entire page to an amateur theatre company. A different company to the one I mention above.<br /><br />And, speaking as a Prof. of Perforance Studies ;-), Lehmann is a little late out of the starting gate anyway, so for something to really drive the theatre conservatives round the bend I recommend Adrian Heathfield ;-)...Hi Dazza.Zane Trowhttp://zanetrow.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-57731089033539389432011-01-12T14:21:24.352+11:002011-01-12T14:21:24.352+11:00Cameron Woodhead's comments are so obnoxious, ...Cameron Woodhead's comments are so obnoxious, carping, accusational and juvenile that it's often very hard for the general reader to see their positive contribution to the thoughts, ideas and conversations generally posted. Well done Ms TN on handling them with grace as always.chrismbrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-55443452233016333792011-01-12T09:42:51.672+11:002011-01-12T09:42:51.672+11:00PS: Re the "blatant lie": this is what y...PS: Re the "blatant lie": this is what you said about postdramatic theatre:<br /><br />"Still, to focus on Kantor alone would be to miss the structural and theoretical challenges brought about by a wider movement, so-called post-dramatic theatre. This is really just a modish phrase for postmodern theory applied, belatedly, to theatre. The value of an aesthetic theory should be Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-43241275116876394222011-01-12T08:52:39.533+11:002011-01-12T08:52:39.533+11:00Hi Cameron
If you have read Lehmann, there was ve...Hi Cameron<br /><br />If you <i>have</i> read Lehmann, there was very little evidence in your Age piece that you understood what he was describing in <i>Postdramatic Theatre</i>. You just gave the usual kneejerk description of postmodern theory (which can be, yes, a waste of time - there are people and ideas with whom I have my own arguments - but by no means always). Certainly, what you claimed Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-41635441302775067892011-01-12T00:43:07.266+11:002011-01-12T00:43:07.266+11:00Re: post-dramatic theatre. Have you even read Lehm...Re: post-dramatic theatre. Have you even read Lehmann? It sounds to me like you've googled his book, but not read it. You should perhaps do so. Then we can discuss his ideas, or lack thereof. <br /><br />As for me declaring that post-dramatic theatre, as you put it, "refers to no art of any interest" ... that's just a blatant lie. One of the problems with Lehmann is that he Cameron Woodheadhttp://cameronwoodhead.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-81284164630921023622011-01-11T11:28:11.275+11:002011-01-11T11:28:11.275+11:00Thanks for your comments, Zane, Stitzy and Daryl -...Thanks for your comments, Zane, Stitzy and Daryl -<br /><br />Interesting point about the "right to fail", Daryl. I think generally as a culture we are a little impatient on that front, but I suspect you're correct about the difference between Sydney and Melbourne. Certainly, the amount of schtick the STC's Actors Company received gave me pause. It was a problematic experiment Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-49820054869282177922011-01-11T07:53:20.627+11:002011-01-11T07:53:20.627+11:00Read your meditations on Melbourne theatre with in...Read your meditations on Melbourne theatre with interest.<br /><br />I wonder as well whether or not there are also longer term dynamics at play in Melbourne within which the actions of specific individuals and companies are immersed.<br /><br />My memory of Melbourne before moving to Sydney in 1995, and then again to Brisbane in 1996, was of a city where 'creative error' and the Daryl Buckleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-33409867355846477362011-01-10T21:10:37.614+11:002011-01-10T21:10:37.614+11:00Bravo Alison. Really enjoyed this reflection. You ...Bravo Alison. Really enjoyed this reflection. You may not end up writing the history of what went down in the early 'naughties' but you're well and truly in amongst it! The landscape really does feel different to 2004 when TNs began. Incidentally, I remember seeing the horse head flyer in the Carlton Courthouse. It peeked my interest and what an enjoyable and fascinating ride thus farStitzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06934647273994243990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-22882465346360589352011-01-10T12:57:20.474+11:002011-01-10T12:57:20.474+11:00Melbourne theatre then, remains the most interesti...Melbourne theatre then, remains the most interesting in the country. Sydney a close second. There is nothing going on anywhere else. Brisbane remains the most conservative and boring theatre centre in the country. It regularly goes from bad...to worse. Only CIRCA here is doing anything interesting. Brisbane's cultural power falls to the visual arts and music and even then it cuts the most Zane Trowhttp://zanetrow.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-25106319539676802872011-01-05T23:05:10.814+11:002011-01-05T23:05:10.814+11:00Hi Doug. What has F. Scott Fitzgerald got to do wi...Hi Doug. What has F. Scott Fitzgerald got to do with the Baby Boomers? Or am I missing something? In any case, I didn't dismiss an entire generation. I said: "At their best, the Baby Boomers remain keepers of the radical flame, and are invaluable repositories of cultural memory; at their worst, schooled in bitter divisions and simplistic binaries, they became ever diminishing defenders Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-36762271798501210182011-01-05T19:58:38.714+11:002011-01-05T19:58:38.714+11:00Hi Alison,
Do I detect a hint of guilt by associa...Hi Alison,<br /><br />Do I detect a hint of guilt by association with the Baby Boomers? In your distaste for generational generalisations are you not dismissing the culturally embedded works of the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Lost Generation and Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation?Dougnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-54447536835896252192010-12-31T19:26:25.928+11:002010-12-31T19:26:25.928+11:00Many thanks, Kate. I keep hearing rumours of many ...Many thanks, Kate. I keep hearing rumours of many things bubbling up your way! Happy New Year to you, too.Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-15695936243929412962010-12-31T17:21:36.633+11:002010-12-31T17:21:36.633+11:00Cheers Alison. I enjoyed this post, as I do all of...Cheers Alison. I enjoyed this post, as I do all of your writing. Good to get a catchup on Melbourne theatre and a sense that the independent 'movement' is rumbling the tectonic plates nation-wide. At least, that's how it feels up here.<br /><br />All the best for 2011.Kate Foyhttp://actorsgreenroom.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-36412817659428338402010-12-30T17:39:20.166+11:002010-12-30T17:39:20.166+11:00Hi Nick - good to hear from you. It's a shame ...Hi Nick - good to hear from you. It's a shame you're not blogging about these things you're seeing!Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-77299894675341588882010-12-30T10:49:40.223+11:002010-12-30T10:49:40.223+11:00Thank you Alison. What a journey indeed.
Here in ...Thank you Alison. What a journey indeed.<br /><br />Here in Sydney I have been most blown away by the stuff that's not only coming out of the established theatres, but also the rise and rise of the western Sydney venues. <br /><br />Urban Theatre Projects, ICE, Campbelltown Arts and Casula Powerhouse to name just a few.<br /><br />It's coming at us in dance, alternative venues and throughNicholas Pickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06765213293334506905noreply@blogger.com