on 9/7/01 10:18 AM, [log in to unmask] at [log in to unmask] wrote:
Alison
fair enough, and thanks for clarifying the source
best wishes
Anthony
> Sorry, Anthony: but it wasn't a review. Reviews can be whatever they
> are. It was an opinion piece in the Sunday papers, and therefore in a
> sense gratuitous; and for me it had applications beyond the work itself.
>
> John Embling, one of the founders of the Families in Distress Foundation
> in Footsray, and author of the books Fighting Back and Fragmented Lives,
> has had exactly the same reactions when he has talked about his work,
> which is infinitely more important than art: when he has talked about the
> kinds of violence with which he deals every day, and the kinds of
> circumstances under which the children he attempts to help live, he is
> told "that doesn't happen here" or "don't make us feel guilty".
>
> Both reactions - against Emblign and against the plays - are hostile
> reactions against the truths of OUR society, both profoundly
> anti-intellectual and intellectually dishonest, and I want better from
> those who speak publically about them.
>
> Best
>
> Alison
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