At Theatre Notes this week: the continuing adventures of Little Alison at
the Melbourne Festival.
Le Dernier Caravansérail (Odyssées), devised by the company, directed by
Ariane Mnouchkine. Théâtre de Soleil, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
Gardens.
17th October 2005
Dear Ariane
I hope you will forgive me for addressing you so familiarly, since I have
never met you. Writing a letter seems, perhaps not so strangely, the only
fit way to address Le Dernier Caravansérail (Odyssées) . I saw both parts
in one long and dizzying Sunday and it makes me want to say many things that
you must already know. Principally, I wish to say that I witnessed
something beautiful, a work of theatre that left me moved and shaken.
But this is already inadequate. Beauty is so often taken to mean the
anodyne, the conventional; to be moved suggests a surfeit of sentiment. The
work of your company is so far from the anodyne and sentimental, the
deadliness of the worthy, that in writing about it I fear misrepresenting
the breathtaking honesty and directness of its aesthetic.
Read more at http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
And responses also to:
Death and the Ploughman, SITI Theatre
La Clique...A Sideshow Burlesque @ The Spiegeltent
The Odyssey, Malthouse Theatre
Songs of Exile, Diamanda Galas
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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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