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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Review: Porn.Cake by Alison Croggon

Consumerism depends on the frustration of desire. Unhappiness might be the most profitable emotion in first world society: it creates an ever-tightening spiral, the pursuit of happiness inev…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:53PM

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Briefs: Howie the Rookie, Hypatia II, In The Next Room by Alison Croggon

Your faithful correspondent has been somewhat scattered of late, like a barrel of popcorn given a hefty thump. I have excuses, with which I won't bore you; suffice to say that recently my ot…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:45PM

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Advertisements for myself by Alison Croggon

Things might have been quiet on TN (aside from the shenanigans on the Baal comment thread) but that doesn't mean that Ms TN has been idle. No, indeed: life in all its glorious variety has be…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 10:07PM

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Rise of the Amateur by Alison Croggon

I gave this talk on Monday at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane as part of the Low-Fi Forum, organised by Arts Queensland. “Amateur” is an interesting word. It us…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:24PM

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Review: Baal by Alison Croggon

Baal, pagan Lord of Heaven, god of rain and fertility. Baal, the first king of the Christian Hell, best known to us as Beelzebub. Milton's Baalim, one of those evilly ambiguous demons who, &…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 06:46PM

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Review: Delectable Shelter, Minotaur by Alison Croggon

Watching the development of theatre companies is a fascinating business. They are organisms subject to all the travails of being alive: growth, change, decay, death and renewal. They are net…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:21PM

Newsy bits by Alison Croggon

* It's all over US newspapers, but I can't seem to find it in any local sheets, at least online: former MIAF director Kristy Edmunds has landed a plum job at UCLA as artistic director of its…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 06:33PM

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Review: Amplification, Faker by Alison Croggon

Finally - the last of my responses to Dance Massive, which, such is the pace of life around these here parts, feels in the remote past already, although it only closed a few days ago. I mana…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 08:43PM

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Review: The Wild Duck by Alison Croggon

Last week Ms TN took a few days off to lounge about in the fleshpots of Sydney. And lo, it was good, although the perilous aspect of taking a short holiday is that it makes you understand ho…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 06:51PM

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Holding note by Alison Croggon

I saw three fascinating performances last week: two Dance Massive works (BalletLab's Amplification and Gideon Obarzanek's one-man piece Faker) and, in Sydney, Simon Stone's astonishing adapt…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 08:22PM

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Briefs: In Glass, These Are The Isolate by Alison Croggon

Less, so the conventional wisdom goes, is more. Like most truisms it isn't always true, but it's a handy rule of thumb that Narelle Benjamin might have heeded when creating In Glass, a multi…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 08:13PM

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Dance Massive: Sunstruck, NOWNOWNOW by Alison Croggon

Dance Massive is now in full swing, offering the kind of fare that means I am constantly kicking myself (an interesting athletic feat) for not seeing everything on the program. Altogether, I…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:39PM

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Dance Massive: Connected by Alison Croggon

You know, I thought that Melbourne was a small city, just the right size for a cultural grasshopper like Ms TN. Unlike the seething metropolises of London or Paris, it seemed to me that in M…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 06:22PM

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