Thanks Melissa for your review and comment on my question. I mentioned the Dee opera today to a colleague who said he thought it might be touring to Manchester as well. If it comes north I reckon I'll check it out, if even for kitsch value.
Justin
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On 6 Jul 2011, at 11:27, Melissa Harrington <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sure, but dont let it put you off, its still pretty amazing, and does introduce Dee/Kelley and their work in the context of Elizabethan politics and zeitgeist, its just that it's truly fabulous theatre but shallow on the magic. Proper review to follow.
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>> On 04/07/2011 22:44, Melissa Harrington wrote:
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>> Pity - can i repost your comment below?
>> mogg
>>> Dear All
>>>
>>> The Dee Opera was indeed an opera, with much serious funding, to be used in the olympics, incorporating the English National Orchestra; and the quality of the cast, theatrics, sets and directing was so good I really enjoyed all of it but Damon Albarn's incongruous busker style commentaries. Stunning effects, well worth watching and a good afternoon out, but be aware that the magic you see will be on a par with that of a wicked witch or fairy Godmother in the local Christmas panto, this is a materialist reading which conflates necromancy and enochian scrying, focusses on politics and the mundane aspects of the Dee/Kelley journey, and is in essence a faustian morality tale. I will write a proper review this week.
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>>> Dear Justin
>>>
>>> I love this question, but the answer is perhaps something huge we are all working on together on this list!
>>>
>>> "Some say art is a mirror, others a hammer. I can't help but see it more as a reflexive (sometimes unconscious) spasm responding to the sociopolitical conditions an artist lives within. If we agree that art is a means of materialising and holding suspended the immaterial invisible aspects of being, What does all this spasming around the occult Say about the conditions of our time?
>>> "
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