tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post581882017134354762..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: Festivally notesAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-88532173849939051632008-08-25T22:48:00.000+10:002008-08-25T22:48:00.000+10:00Geoffrey, I'm really sorry; I don't think I'm goin...Geoffrey, I'm really sorry; I don't think I'm going to get to it. I just don't have the mental space. But if things calm down and I'm not reading US proofs or editing (a different but nicely short) story or trying to think up intelligent things to say about Australian poetry or Russian poetry or Australian theatre, while at the back of my mind a completely different story keeps waving its hands, Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-49612713975476620562008-08-25T22:09:00.000+10:002008-08-25T22:09:00.000+10:00... so if you must,let me down gently.... so if you must,<BR/>let me down gently.Geoffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409350618909242278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1078728492764805502008-08-25T22:08:00.000+10:002008-08-25T22:08:00.000+10:00Sorry to be like a bee in a jar, but I'm still wai...Sorry to be like a bee in a jar, but I'm still waiting for the unabridged Tennessee Williams review.Geoffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409350618909242278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-48015173429736666762008-08-25T17:50:00.000+10:002008-08-25T17:50:00.000+10:00Hi Jeremy - well, it's not "my" panel. I'm merely ...Hi Jeremy - well, it's not "my" panel. I'm merely the chair/facilitator, and the event is in fact auspiced by Currency Press, who published both books (Gabrielle Wolf's came out earlier this year). I think you're rather unfair on Julian Meyrick's book; fwiw, I think it very good indeed - one of the most acute and intelligent analyses I've read of Australian theatre history (and refreshingly Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-64477298751762445812008-08-25T16:31:00.000+10:002008-08-25T16:31:00.000+10:00Hi AlisonJust thought I'd throw some thoughts at y...Hi Alison<BR/>Just thought I'd throw some thoughts at you re the theatre history session. For, while I'm quite unaware of the APG book mentioned, I did review Meyrick versus Tim Robertson back in 2002 (see Canberra Times 27/2)- finding vastly more pleasure in the contents and absences from Robertson's Pram Factory book than in Meyrick's PHD trawl through the archives of a Nimrod he'd never Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-165873679951211382008-08-24T09:45:00.000+10:002008-08-24T09:45:00.000+10:00I'm not sure yet, Jana - we're meeting up next wee...I'm not sure yet, Jana - we're meeting up next week to discuss these things. And hopefully we'll (not me) will be reading one in Russian. I have both Stanley Kunitz's and Judith Hermschemeyer's translations (I refused to buy DM Thomas's because he calls Akhmatova a "poetess" in his forward, despite her very public dislike of the term). My favourite translations are actually a slim selection by Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-6169722857667625632008-08-24T06:10:00.000+10:002008-08-24T06:10:00.000+10:00Having read both (are you referring to this articl...Having read both (are you referring to <A HREF="http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?file=/home/pnreview/public_html/members/pnr163/articles/163ar04.txt" REL="nofollow">this article</A>, Alison, available in .html?), I must ask: which translations will you be reading? (Very sorry not to be attending.)<BR/><BR/>And, as already mentioned <A HREF="http://misonou.livejournal.com/545480.html?view=Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-12345453562042105272008-08-22T22:37:00.000+10:002008-08-22T22:37:00.000+10:00Thanks for that, Matt. I read it with interest, an...Thanks for that, Matt. I read it with interest, and it leads me to ask: why does that essay annoy me so? Things like: "She was a vamp by nature. If there had been no revolution, Akhmatova could have made her seductive nature her subject, in the manner of Edna St. Vincent Millay but to even greater effect. History denied her the opportunity to sublimate her frailties. It made her a heroine insteadAlison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-7197860130842587452008-08-22T18:37:00.000+10:002008-08-22T18:37:00.000+10:00Anna Akhmatova, as it happens, is also the subject...Anna Akhmatova, as it happens, is also the subject of the first essay in Clive James's <EM>Cultural Amnesia</EM>. And the essay, as it happens, is <A HREF="http://www.slate.com/id/2159089/" REL="nofollow">online</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com