Torque
Torque :Liquid Paper 1: Making Light of Gravity by Hellen Sky and The
Proscenium by Margaret Cameron. Three performance "showing" @ the Malthouse
Theatre.
One of the definitions of torque is "the moment of a system of forces
producing rotation". It's easy to see why Hellen Sky and Margaret Cameron
chose Torque to title this double bill: Liquid Paper 1: Making Light of
Gravity and The Proscenium stand in dynamic relation to each other, creating
a deeply interesting theatrical conversation between two extremely
accomplished and very different solo performers.
Hellen Sky's background is mainly in dance and new media; she is artistic
director of Dancehouse, and the co-director of Company in Space, whose work
focuses on the intersections between technology and art. Margaret Cameron
is a performer/writer, whose profoundly poetic work has for years been
stubbornly challenging conventional theatre practice in Melbourne. Seeing
their two solo pieces in tandem was fascinating. Both are challenging works
of considerable beauty, and both, in different but deeply related ways,
interrogate notions of the self and the body.
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Critics and "objectivity"
Fellow theatre blogger Spearbearer Down Left has a post on Pulitzer Prize
winning playwright Paula Vogel (how's that for alliteration, folks?) which
caught my eye, because it talks about crrrrritics.
Paula Vogel has, it seems, invited theatre critics along to a day-long "boot
camp", during which they'll be asked to write plays "on the spot". This is
an idea that has a history: I remember some years ago the Guardian's theatre
critic Michael Billington writing about an exercise in which he was invited
to direct a play, in order to understand better how difficult it is. And
there are those panels (I've participated in at least two) which "criticise
the critics". It's part of the endless quest by the theatre world to
grapple critics to its heart, all the better to strangle them (only joking).
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All the best
Alison
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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