tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post9095837012895758767..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: Review: Briwyant, The McNeil ProjectAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-20346965184043591882012-07-09T15:17:34.571+10:002012-07-09T15:17:34.571+10:00Hi Chris - yes, it's all quite clear. McNeil i...Hi Chris - yes, it's all quite clear. McNeil isn't doing the larrikin thing with his language: it's vivid and (properly) colourful idiom. I didn't know that about the use of "dingo", btw: trust you to.Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-18385327351601277642012-07-09T14:16:22.158+10:002012-07-09T14:16:22.158+10:00I especially enjoyed the use of Aussie slang in Th...I especially enjoyed the use of Aussie slang in The Old Familiar Juice. Not just McNeil's clever use of it, but the clear delivery of it. (It's slighly hyperbolic, maybe, but the director and cast made our slang as comprehensible as the RSC and Old Vic, say, make Shakespeare!) <br /><br />Take the use of the word dingo. That word has been used to mean coward since the middle decades Chris Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18215203610745043810noreply@blogger.com