Hi all
A busy week on TN!
* Firstly: an exclusive interview with Head of the VCA School of Drama,
Lindy Davies, who this week announces her resignation after 11 years running
the school.
"The thing that is so disappointing about our culture is the perpetual
amnesia, the lack of acknowledgement of things that have occurred. Our
achievements aren't cherished, aren't built from."
* Secondly, my review of Joanna Murray-Smith's new play, The Female of the
Species -
"This week I went to see Murray-Smith's most recent play, The Female of the
Species, and didn't come out breathing fire or wanting to kill. Did my brush
with death last week made me a wiser, kinder person? Or have all these drugs
numbed my aesthetic perceptions?
Sadly for the moralists, I don't think that suffering has made me more
generous. Nor, despite a certain giddy feeling, do I think that the drugs
have much to do with it. My theory is that Murray-Smith has put away
self-pity for the cruel pleasures of revenge, and in the process has
discovered that she's really a comedian."
* Thirdly, a link to my radio play, Specula, a collaboration with composer
Sam Mallet, which is online at ABC Radio National.
All this and more on a computer near you! And for absolutely free! At
http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
All the best
Alison
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Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
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