tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359466909937985736.post5919469268774099677..comments2021-05-09T18:12:42.272+10:00Comments on our man in berlin: Don't Make Me Angryour man in berlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01350019532999048864noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359466909937985736.post-37798533154054043292006-12-27T05:39:00.000+11:002006-12-27T05:39:00.000+11:00has there been any recent summary/critique/stock-t...<i>has there been any recent summary/critique/stock-take of the Malthouse's artistic aims and the ongoing result of those aims?</i> <br /><br />Not that I'm aware of, Daniel. Or not specifically on the Malthouse. The entrails were preemptively examined around the time of Kantor's appointment. But apart from some editorialising within reviews there's not been much since. <br /><br />I see that Kate Herbert and my combined wrap of the year in drama is in today's Herald Sun... no link, as usual. My remarks on the Malthouse in that piece -- aside from comments on specific productions -- are limited to hoping, aloud, that it survives and thrives. (I originally ended with a quotation from Gordon Rogoff: "one doesn't have to be Jewish to loathe... white bread." But I cut it at the last minute. Without explaining that Gordon, cutely, calls himself "a New York unfrocked Jew", it looked a bit dodgy.) <br /><br /><i>And are your and Kate's reviews anywhere out there? Cursory googling came up blank</i><br /><br />Regrettably, no.Chris Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18215203610745043810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359466909937985736.post-63057608013122639972006-12-26T20:48:00.000+11:002006-12-26T20:48:00.000+11:00Robin Usher also has my admiration for valiantly t...Robin Usher also has my admiration for valiantly trying to rectify the lack of critical mass in this city with Storm Magazine. Action AND words. This relates to the serious side of my rant, at what point in the cycle can an intervention be useful?<br /><br />I'm still trying to figure out what Ray Gill does! But was confronted on recent return with his odd "comic" G2 articles, which I think, Alison Croggon then critiqued, can't find the link.<br /><br />Chris, what initially got under my skin about HT's reviews were that they seriously shut-down any assessment of the different kind of theatre that was being attempted. You might be able to help me out: has there been any recent summary/critique/stock-take of the Malthouse's artistic aims and the ongoing result of those aims? And are your and Kate's reviews anywhere out there? Cursory googling came up blank<br /><br />(I do want to bring this back to Alison's letter and will post afresh about that.)our man in berlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350019532999048864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359466909937985736.post-58646503506731616512006-12-26T17:42:00.000+11:002006-12-26T17:42:00.000+11:00While I don't necessarily disagree with shyboy's s...While I don't necessarily disagree with shyboy's sentiments, I have to point out that Mantas are jawed vertebrates... even if they are relatively spineless. (No stinger.) They do have lots of Gills. And they're mostly harmless... unlike other Rays. <br /><br />And, yeah, great letter. <br /><br />I've gotta say, I thought <i>Ham Funeral</i> was deadly theatre -- as much as I wanted to celebrate and write positive things -- and was an unworthy companion piece to <i>Journal of the Plague Year</i> where, it seemed to me, all the effort and imagination went. <br /><br />Unfortunately, I drew the short straw and had to review <i>Ham Funeral</i> only. Kate Herbert reviewed <i>Journal</i>.Chris Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18215203610745043810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359466909937985736.post-87383624680965023492006-12-26T17:23:00.000+11:002006-12-26T17:23:00.000+11:00Great letter to RT, by the way.Great letter to RT, by the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359466909937985736.post-86293326648231565092006-12-26T17:22:00.000+11:002006-12-26T17:22:00.000+11:00Usher looks like a man, at least, next to that inv...Usher looks like a man, at least, next to that invertebrate "Manta" Ray Gill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359466909937985736.post-58916243027370689272006-12-25T21:05:00.000+11:002006-12-25T21:05:00.000+11:00muhahahahaha merry xmas cunt.
disgustedmuhahahahaha merry xmas cunt.<br /><br />disgustedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359466909937985736.post-81718315045679034152006-12-25T16:50:00.000+11:002006-12-25T16:50:00.000+11:00Dear Disgusted,
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