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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From: "mandrake" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Doctor Dee
> On 04/07/2011 22:44, Melissa Harrington wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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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