Theatre Notes
Blog URL http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Located Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Tags theatre, art, dance, poetry, plays, writing, performance
Independent theatre reviewing and commentary by Alison Croggon
Latest Blog Posts
- Women in theatre: the Philip Parons Memorial Lecture on Nov 19, 2009 in gender blog biz
Keen theatrenauts will have no problem calling to mind the on-going debate over the place of women in Australian theatre. Sparked by a season launch at Company B Belvoir St that overshadowed Neil Armfield's farewell season by fielding one woman among...
- Review: Africa on Nov 19, 2009 in my darling patricia malthouse
I’ve often pondered the astounding ability of puppets to generate intense emotional responses. How is it possible that we can identify so fiercely with an overtly unrealistic object made of sticks and paper?The power of animation plumbs our imagina...
- The Native Returns on Nov 15, 2009 in blog biz
Yes, faithful readers: your truant blogger has returned from the fleshpots of the northern hemisphere, having bounced around England and Ireland and Scotland like a crazed blowfly in a bottle. I had a marvellous time, I met a lot of charming people a...
- Packing on Oct 9, 2009 in blog biz poetry
Tickets, check. Passport, check. Itinerary, check. iPhone A-Z, check. Ms TN is a traveler who likes to know where her towel is, and most particularly wants maps, even if she has a record of holding them upside down and striding optimistically in exac...
- Fringe: A Black Joy, Yuri Wells, In the Absence of Sunlight on Oct 7, 2009 in fortyfive downstairs declan greene benedict hardie the hayloft project fringe festival
In the interests of organisation, Ms TN has been tidying her desk. This bland, anodyne phrase cannot begin to comprehend the dimensions of the task. It's like the fifth labour of Hercules (Augean Stables, Cleaning Of), only instead of incontinent cow...
- Fringe: Attract/Repel, The Ridiculusmus Readings on Oct 4, 2009 in la mama store room ridiculusmus ming-zhu hii fringe festival
Attract/Repel is an intriguing work of theatre at the Store Room which meets, head-on, the question of racism. One of the best things about it is how it does so without fuss or apology, yet instead of visiting the expected arguments of victimisation...
- Sex and stuff on Oct 2, 2009 in gender blog biz bell shakespeare
Fringe shows are now piling up, but not the wherewithal to write about them. Ms TN's got a headache, not of the hangover variety but of the Jane Austen sick-headake kind. I need a shadowed bechamber and some lavender water. But some pointers, all the...
