tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post3798720659643337265..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: Thursday portmanteauAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-74411489167657598042009-09-25T17:41:42.290+10:002009-09-25T17:41:42.290+10:00BD - I won't do a post, for both obvious and l...BD - I won't do a post, for both obvious and less obvious reasons. The programming came about, however, in the usual way - the new play is an MTC commission, and the MTC contacted him.Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-49301518610603374612009-09-25T17:35:51.951+10:002009-09-25T17:35:51.951+10:00Oops - I've been sternly corrected by the man ...Oops - I've been sternly corrected by the man himself. It wasn't the Avignon Festival's Cour d'honneur, which is reserved for the Great Directors of Our Time. It was a sold out season at the 2000-seat CĂ©lestin Cloisters. (Avignon 2002).Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-70202104882407524902009-09-25T17:32:16.765+10:002009-09-25T17:32:16.765+10:00Alison, it would be wonderful (and not at all prof...Alison, it would be wonderful (and not at all professionally inappropriate) if you could pen a post on how one of Daniel's works ended up in the MTC calendar. Definitely worth celebration. But I have to admit I was surprised, only because of the neglect his writing has often suffered locally, as you've often noted. I guess I'm just interested in how that situation reinvented itself - Born Dancin'https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526760383290674186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-9882570297264243862009-09-25T17:19:16.363+10:002009-09-25T17:19:16.363+10:00Not so much diplomatic as a little over repeating ...Not so much diplomatic as a little over repeating myself, which is the acme of dullness.Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-62750980820440245382009-09-25T17:16:34.364+10:002009-09-25T17:16:34.364+10:00OK...versions of Wedekind, Voltaire and Kafka, plu...OK...versions of Wedekind, Voltaire and Kafka, plus Eugene O'Neill, Chekhov, Thornton Wilder, Aeschylus and Sam Shepard at STC. <br /><br />With the obligatory McNamara comedy and Murray-Smith playing the role of David Williamson. And contemporary American and British plays.<br /><br />You got what you wanted Paul. Here come the Dead White Males.Neil in Sydneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-24032878775956827182009-09-25T17:07:49.637+10:002009-09-25T17:07:49.637+10:00Wow I hadn't seen those quotes.
How patronis...Wow I hadn't seen those quotes. <br /><br />How patronising.<br /><br />You're being very diplomatic Alison. <br /><br />They must have been taken out of context. They could only be affectionate ribbing. <br /><br />But they say a lot about the MTC's imagined audience and its responses.Stefnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-77753550171112652722009-09-25T17:04:37.153+10:002009-09-25T17:04:37.153+10:00I'm sure we'll find out re the Lawler. No ...I'm sure we'll find out re the Lawler. No doubt it will take a while to find its feet. I agree, it's a place with a lot of potential, and it would be great to see it imaginatively used.<br /><br />Hi Lucy - it's not so much patronising as startlingly Melbourne-centric. I guess one can't expect people to know much about his work, since not a lot of it is published in English, Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-42668074403889672582009-09-25T13:35:07.650+10:002009-09-25T13:35:07.650+10:00I'm sure neither of the quotes below were mean...I'm sure neither of the quotes below were meant to read as patronising or a little bit off but they kind of did. Or is it just me? Lucy<br /><br />THE AGE<br />'Daniel realised that he had to appeal to 500 people a night, rather than 100 at fortyfivedownstairs,' Phillips says.<br /><br /><br />THE AUSTRALIAN<br />Evans will also direct Daniel Keene's MTC debut, Life Without Me, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-75929410052975752462009-09-25T12:38:46.452+10:002009-09-25T12:38:46.452+10:00Maybe the cost of insurance, techs, people staffin...Maybe the cost of insurance, techs, people staffing the building when there might not be a show in the Sumner... I think managing a space as a venue for hire might bring extra costs in itself (just guessing with those things, though).<br /><br />I heard a rumour about the marketing budget the Lawler had this year and was flabbergasted. I suppose if you compare the programs from the Lawler season Born Dancin'https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526760383290674186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-18600955650871853732009-09-25T11:31:54.693+10:002009-09-25T11:31:54.693+10:00Not bagging the writer, i'm solely going on th...Not bagging the writer, i'm solely going on the description of the show and the creative team. <br /><br />If they don't have any money why don't they just provide in kind support, like give an independent company the space to put a show on without paying them a wage? I think most independent companies would love that, and it would save them the $3500 it costs to hire say, 45 Gilligannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-44168905416661267722009-09-25T00:45:41.068+10:002009-09-25T00:45:41.068+10:00I have a yen for Strindberg and Von Horvath... but...I have a yen for Strindberg and Von Horvath... but hey. <br /><br />Gilligan, the MTC has been quite upfront about its lack of money to program the Studio. We're lucky to get one play on there, and who knows what will be programmed else? Actors and production staff have to be paid. And - really - Mayenburg is standard MTC programming? I'd say that was stretching the envelope a bit. When Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-7852563751725850062009-09-24T18:02:55.396+10:002009-09-24T18:02:55.396+10:00Wow we're well served for the classics in Melb...Wow we're well served for the classics in Melbourne.<br /><br />If I open my paper and see they're doing Schiller and Ibsen and Euripides and Pinter and so on in Sydney again I'll weep.<br /><br />Sorry to be negative. <br />It's great to see the Mayenburg play, regardless of the venue. And Paul Capsis, wonderful.Paul Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-48537565266392886032009-09-24T17:38:54.490+10:002009-09-24T17:38:54.490+10:00Why has only one play been programed into the Lawl...Why has only one play been programed into the Lawler? And it's not on until May. And it looks just like any play they would program into the main season. <br /><br />Are they going to program more plays for the Lawler Studio at a later date? Seems odd that it would be left to sit empty for the rest of the year.Gilligannoreply@blogger.com