tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post2425550618875785512..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: Review: The Trial, All About My MotherAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-11313236442380624572010-09-05T07:02:54.502+10:002010-09-05T07:02:54.502+10:00Hi J-Lo - thanks for your lovely note! Yes, that s...Hi J-Lo - thanks for your lovely note! Yes, that sense of generosity matters a great deal to me, too. It's somehow implicit in the act of making it. Or ought to be.Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-83637285749402685812010-09-04T15:02:42.201+10:002010-09-04T15:02:42.201+10:00Hi TN,
It just happened that these were also my t...Hi TN,<br /><br />It just happened that these were also my two theatre outings for the week (a double rarity!).<br /><br />Thank-you for review of The Trial - I didn't leave the theatre wanting to rave, but I did leave glad I went, with plenty to mull over (which isn't to say performance and production are not first rate - just that it was properly thought-provoking!)<br /><br />Having J-Lonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-32129250047864213152010-08-30T08:09:43.603+10:002010-08-30T08:09:43.603+10:00Hello, nameless and eloquent interlocutor:
I shal...Hello, nameless and eloquent interlocutor:<br /><br />I shall try to answer you better.<br /><br />Yes, progress - the idea that each successive era ushers in a cumulative improvement in sophistication, intelligent, form etc - is a total illusion. And art especially demonstrates this. There is the famous story of Picasso visiting the caves of Lascaux and remarking in his amazement that we have Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1035753277908252792010-08-30T06:45:33.930+10:002010-08-30T06:45:33.930+10:00Progress does not exist in art? How so? Does not...Progress does not exist in art? How so? Does not this faithful heart still bare its scars to the world anew - each passing season of mans time, upon this earth and beyond it, what shallow depths we plumb?<br /><br />If there is no progress in art then there is simply no art. Art itself being though the thing of creation that whomever creates it can decide if it is art. I am speaking of this Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-66793751214317434632010-08-29T09:42:22.422+10:002010-08-29T09:42:22.422+10:00Hi Anons, and thanks. Anon 2, you're quite cor...Hi Anons, and thanks. Anon 2, you're quite correct: you could throw that argument at The Trial. The answer is in the work itself: The Trial in performance became a new and vital thing. (Maybe too look again at what I mean by "truthful". I'm not sure you really thought about what I meant when I said that it was "a question of whether the adaptation faithfully refracts in itsAlison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-38399187739202793062010-08-29T08:01:10.944+10:002010-08-29T08:01:10.944+10:00Wow! Amazing writing Alison.
You say of the MTC ...Wow! Amazing writing Alison.<br /><br />You say of the MTC show 'why bother adapting at all?' Couldn't this be the same argument thrown at The Trial?<br /><br />Truthfulness? Hmmm, in adapting a work? Seems like something else at play me say.<br /><br />For my mind, I am not so much a truth seeker as someone who seeks to respect something rather than 'like' it perse. <br Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-72911381693775202522010-08-26T23:16:43.338+10:002010-08-26T23:16:43.338+10:00Thankyou for your 'vision statement.'
Wh...Thankyou for your 'vision statement.' <br /><br />When other people do that I squirm in my pants, but yours was eloquent - and truthful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-70603996101499387512010-08-26T22:47:30.730+10:002010-08-26T22:47:30.730+10:00Thanks William, and much appreciated. Yes, always ...Thanks William, and much appreciated. Yes, always problematic Kieron, and without doubt foolhardy. Nevertheless...Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-71650488316858376072010-08-26T21:56:53.095+10:002010-08-26T21:56:53.095+10:00AlisonI enjoyed your review of The Trial & I a...AlisonI enjoyed your review of The Trial & I agree. However to sense the truth is one thing but trying account for it always problematic.kieron meaghernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-10306837920602988382010-08-26T18:36:15.291+10:002010-08-26T18:36:15.291+10:00The Trial...... What a great review, what Great p...The Trial...... What a great review, what Great piece of writing. Thanks.william zappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12288045661526020659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-76376502912378523852010-08-26T18:11:34.560+10:002010-08-26T18:11:34.560+10:00Hi Owen - Drat! I should double check everything, ...Hi Owen - Drat! I should double check <i>everything</i>, and especially whatever it is I think I know. The TN multitudes don't always include factcheckers and subs... It's obvious now you point it out, but I would have sworn it was in the preface to Fleurs du Mal. There is a sentence in the preface that reads: "the best of taste teaches us not to fear contradicting ourselves", Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-83182212348192624762010-08-26T17:48:58.788+10:002010-08-26T17:48:58.788+10:00Er, Alison, it was Whitman who said "Do I con...Er, Alison, it was Whitman who said "Do I contradict myself? Well then, I contradict myself." He then said "I am large, I contain multitudes". <br /><br />As do you. <br /><br />BestOwen Richardsonnoreply@blogger.com