Alison,
Glad you put words to the feeling.
Next time you're on a panel you'll know precisely and profoundly what that
formerly creeping vagueness was about, and you'll begin the discussion---the
wonderful uncomfortable, in-all-of-our-faces debate about what theatre seeks
and does, what art succeeds or fails in its trying, what the PEOPLE, the
artists, strain to communicate, what parts of their productions explode
meanings and what parts leave no traces.
THEN critics and their critics---many of them, anyway---will have to get
into the mud, name names of playwrights, actors, directors, plays, lines in
plays, with the blood-enthusiasm necessary to life=art!
Thanks,
Judy who thinks tepid often just gets fetid
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 5:34 PM
Subject: Forumitis >
I felt I had
> participated in the imprisoning of something I think of, not as an
> expression of freedom, but as freedom itself.
>
> I certainly couldn't have said anything like this at the event today. I
> could not have even thought it, and nor would it have been "appropriate".
> After all, we were only talking about theatre reviewing.
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> Alison Croggon
>
> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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