Hi All,
Last night saw Dorothy Porter's, The Monkey's Mask, at the Stables
in Sydney, performed and produced by
Marianne Bryant.
This great work is one of the artistic alternatives
to the Olympics, anyone in Sydney at the moment should go along, the
music by Sarah De Jong is worth the price of admission
alone.
Dorothy's work is sexy, hot, confronting, funny and
passionate, but mostly I found a great simile to the Humphrey
Bogart character Sam Spade, from Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese
Falcon, (Sam who get $25.00 dollars a day plus expenses)
this performance of Humphrey's was once describe in a
critique as an expression of the characters built up homosexual
frustration.
The Monkey's Mask I feel, has many similarities to this
critique ( just can not remember who it was)
The stuff that dreams are made of, The Monkeys Mask, by
Dorothy Porter.