Saturday, June 21, 2014

Tumblr by Alison Croggon

Since the beginning of 2014 I've been logging my disparate online essays and reviews in one place, so they're easier to track. You can find the Miscellany tumblr here.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Archive by Alison Croggon

Theatre Notes will remain here as an archive. The blog is fully searchable using the search box to the right, and there are browsable lists of all reviews since 2004 and of notable interview…

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Last Post by Alison Croggon

Dear Readers As some of you will already know, I've decided to close down Theatre Notes. It's a decision that's been staring me in the face for a while now, and it's fair to say that I've b…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 08:27PM
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Review: Pompeii, LA by Alison Croggon

Warning: here be spoilers From medium to medium, the real is volatilized, becoming an allegory of death. But it is also, in a sense, reinforced through its own destruction. It becomes reali…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 12:05AM
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Review: Wild Surmise, I am the Wind by Alison Croggon

Last week I saw two adventures in theatrical poetry. Malthouse Theatre literally brought poetry into the theatre with Jane Montgomery Griffiths's and Marion Potts' theatricalisation of Dorot…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 11:21PM
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

So, that was a blast by Alison Croggon

Despite Melbourne's uncertain spring, Ms TN had a most excellent adventure at the 2012 Melbourne Festival, Brett Sheehy's last before he takes up the reins as AD of the Melbourne Theatre Com…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:40PM
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Melbourne Festival: Dance Territories by Alison Croggon

Melbourne Festival Diary #10 After three weeks of full-on performance, Dance Teritories was a refreshing return to the basics: a stage, a performer, an audience. Dance Territories presented…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:34PM
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Melbourne Festival: Before Your Very Eyes, The House of Dreaming by Alison Croggon

Melbourne Festival Diary #9 We're heading towards the end of the festival, which closes on Saturday, and Ms TN is feeling, truth be told, rather ragged. On the one hand, devoting myself to …

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 10:52PM
Monday, October 22, 2012

Melbourne Festival: An Enemy of the People by Alison Croggon

Melbourne Festival Diary #8 I woke the morning after seeing the Schaubühne Berlin's production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People seething with a burning, undirected anger. I don't k…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 11:05PM
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Melbourne Festival: The Minotaur Trilogy by Alison Croggon

Festival Diary #7 Chamber Made Opera's innovative series of Living Room Operas - small-scale opera performances commissioned as site-specific works and performed in private houses - has pro…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 11:21PM
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Melbourne Festival: An Act of Now, Weather, DESH by Alison Croggon

Melbourne Festival Diary #6 Even off the plan, the strongest aspect of the 2012 Melbourne Festival was always the dance. It's a feeling borne out in the performances I've seen: William Fors…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 11:22PM
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Melbourne Festival: Holding Note by Alison Croggon

Melbourne Festival Diary #5 Holding note: Sometimes I find that all that emerges from my fingertips is a sludge of meh. This can particularly happen when I've been knocked out by a work: al…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:33PM
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Melbourne Festival: Orlando by Alison Croggon

Melbourne Festival Diary #4 Some notes on Orlando White. No colour, every colour; plenty and absence at once. The empty page awaiting inscription, the page which may be shredded or burned…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:10PM
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Melbourne Festival: After Life by Alison Croggon

Melbourne Festival Diary #3 It may have only opened on Thursday, but the Melbourne Festival is now well into its stride. Aside from the Forsythe Dance Company, my highlight so far has been …

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 09:55PM
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Melbourne Festival: Forsythe Dance Company, Force Majeure by Alison Croggon

Melbourne Festival Diary #2 I Don't Believe in Outer Space, Forsythe Dance Company; Never Did Me Any Harm, Force Majeure.   I used to say that I enjoyed seeing dance because it gave me a …

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 11:59PM

Melbourne Festival Diary: A Divagation on Criticism by Alison Croggon

Festival Diary #1 The Melbourne Festival officially opens tonight, but a couple of pre-opening events have already tempted Ms TN out of her burrow. Over the past two nights, I've seen two c…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 01:03AM
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Shout out: 2012 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards by Alison Croggon

Know someone who's made an outstanding contribution to the Australian performing arts? I thought so. You should be nominating them for the 2012 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards. Right now,…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 11:38PM
Friday, September 21, 2012

Poems for Pussy Riot by Alison Croggon

As we all know, three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were recently imprisoned after a farcical trial in which they were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious …

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 06:43PM
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Review: Top Girls by Alison Croggon

Okay, okay, I know I swore that I was writing no reviews for a month. But just this one, because it's important. I was completely unprepared for the emotional impact of watching Jenny Kemp'…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 10:11PM
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Acknowledging defeat by Alison Croggon

Dear everybody: as we all know, good intentions are the road to hell. And Ms TN is full of good intentions. I wrote them all out this morning, having cleared some space to catch up on the sh…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 11:22PM
Monday, September 10, 2012

Malthouse 2013 by Alison Croggon

'Tis the season for theatre launches, which gives Ms TN ample opportunity to exploit her genius for SNAFU. Recently my trigger finger gave the MTC's pr department conniptions by blithely twe…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 08:21PM
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

What I'm doing right now by Alison Croggon

Regular readers will be chortling into their coffee to hear that Ms TN has been yet again ruefully contemplating her total inability to control any aspect of her writing life. Viz: yet again…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:59PM
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Patrick White, playwright by Alison Croggon

A brief talk on the plays of Patrick White, which I delivered yesterday at the Melbourne Writers Festival as part of the event Remembering Patrick White. My fellow panelists were David Marr,…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:23PM
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Hasty pointer: Melbourne Theatre Company 2013 by Alison Croggon

Brett Sheehy's first season as artistic director of the Melbourne Theatre Company was launched last night. It's fair to say that the 2013 program been rapturously received: it's the most ima…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:59PM
Sunday, August 19, 2012

Melbourne Writers Festival by Alison Croggon

It's that time of the year again, and I have a busy weekend coming up. If you want to stalk me at the Melbourne Writers Festival, here's the roadmap. I'm part of four sessions: two events ar…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 09:38PM
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Reviews: On the Misconception of Oedipus, His Girl Friday by Alison Croggon

There's a certain discomfort and sharpness, a sense of reaching beyond the limitations of merely making "good" theatre, that filled me with relief when I was watching On the Miscon…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 10:36PM
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Quick note: Victorian Premier's Literary Awards by Alison Croggon

The shortlistings for the Victorian Premier's Literary Prize were announced recently, and are now online at the Wheeler Centre's website. I mention it because this year the Wheeler Centre, i…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 09:24PM
Monday, August 6, 2012

Review: Helicopter by Alison Croggon

Briefly, before the week disappears into the irrevocable past. And a suggestion that if you have an idle nine hours, you should spend them at Robert Lepage's Lipsynch, now on at the Arts Cen…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 10:10PM
Saturday, August 4, 2012

Review: Hell House by Alison Croggon

Some notes I saw Back to Back's Hell House - or, at least, the Hell House part of it - on Friday. I've been thinking about it ever since, and I want to get some thoughts down before I head …

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 09:27PM
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Review: Blood Wedding, Triangle by Alison Croggon

"Publish? I don't publish my plays... Plays are made to be felt in the theatre. They should last as long as the performance does, that's enough... That is what makes the theatre so love…

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 10:55PM

Poetry review by Alison Croggon

My review of folk singer/poet Kate Fagan's collection First Light is now up at Overland Journal.

SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:36PM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
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Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
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Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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