tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post8224482829772333300..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: Speaking up for theatreAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-88548765700859104972006-12-06T14:34:00.000+11:002006-12-06T14:34:00.000+11:00Just to be clear, Nicole: as you should be aware, ...Just to be clear, Nicole: as you should be aware, legally I am responsible for all comment on this blog, <i>whether or not I consented to its being posted and whether or not I am even aware of it</i>, and can indeed be sued over it. This is why the Guardian, for instance, makes you read and agree to some complicated disavowal policy before you post. <br /><br />I don't know the ins and outs of Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-12557516626093297642006-12-06T13:59:00.000+11:002006-12-06T13:59:00.000+11:00Thanks Alison.
I kept the post and am more than h...Thanks Alison.<br /><br />I kept the post and am more than happy to send it to you privately if you wish. I apologise for publishing the words on your site, but as you didn't consent to the publication,you can't be found guilty of defamation. <br /><br />You may be interested to know that the actor referred to in the part of the post about the independent theatre company was unaware that a postAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-83585114699633451822006-12-06T12:10:00.000+11:002006-12-06T12:10:00.000+11:00Hi Nicole
Thanks for coming back, and identifying...Hi Nicole<br /><br />Thanks for coming back, and identifying yourself, and extending your argument. It's hard to go back and look at what Ming-Zhu said, now she's taken it down: which is one big disadvantage of doing so. I am wondering now if she took them down because someone threatened to sue?<br /><br />The difference between critique and ad hominem is: was Ming-Zhu talking about the work, or Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-83435075079626700032006-12-06T08:18:00.000+11:002006-12-06T08:18:00.000+11:00Hi Alison
I posted the 11.53pm comment last night...Hi Alison<br /><br />I posted the 11.53pm comment last night, and apologise for doing so anon. My name is Nicole Rhys, and I am a lawyer, would be actress, and regular theatre goer who recently moved back to Melbourne from Sydney. I'm not sure if that qualifies me to comment on Ming's blog. <br /><br />I was personally appalled by the vitriol in her post, which I read for the first time last Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-89164394795545977462006-12-06T00:44:00.000+11:002006-12-06T00:44:00.000+11:00Hmmm. Strange that you chose this post to comment ...Hmmm. Strange that you chose this post to comment on, Anonymous. I notice that Ming-Zhu had the courage to speak under her own name, which you, Anonymous, did not. I am personally extremely sorry that Ming-Zhu felt she had to do that, and that she attracted what she describes as "vitriolic" attack for daring to ask questions.<br /><br />There is quite a difference between critical engagement and Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-35860475840569582722006-12-05T23:53:00.000+11:002006-12-05T23:53:00.000+11:00I noticed that the fearless Ming has deleted her p...I noticed that the fearless Ming has deleted her posts after soundly bagging Short & Sweet, and at least one independent theatre company that allegedly treated her friend badly. <br /><br />I'm guessing she has heard only one side of the latter story, as I know a person who works for the MTC (therefore having some importance I'd imagine in Ming's world) and works with the independent theatre Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-49669446376459030452006-11-07T11:24:00.000+11:002006-11-07T11:24:00.000+11:00As you know, Alison, cinema is more my medium (tho...As you know, Alison, cinema is more my medium (though I'm tempted to go see a Red Stitch production, having seen their flier last night at the Westgarth Cinema, with Laura Gordon and Kat Stewart from Em 4 Jay). Very little Australian cinema would get made without government assistance. There really is no mature argument against the support of the arts. A government chooses how to spend it's Paul Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10965628567103267009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-52663909161579474262006-11-07T01:47:00.000+11:002006-11-07T01:47:00.000+11:00Read all these threads and whatnot. Must say, it a...Read all these threads and whatnot. Must say, it amazes me how pervasive the view that the arts are somehow an elitist leisure activity, unworthy of "taxpayer money."<br /><br />It's ironic that those that value their money so much, don't know what exactly the term "value" means.Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01183078884824734105noreply@blogger.com