nothing.
thread closed.

oh, well, back to the bongs, i guess.

I saw a play about Squizzy Taylor a while back. It was good.

There's good stuff out there. You just have to know where to find it. I don't know how I did.

I like it. I like bongs too though.

i've been liking it more and more as my special lady friend is a nut for it. the aburdist stuff if fucking great. i like that living people can bring words to life and pretend to be someone else right in front of you.

Not a huge fan.

For some reason it has a stigma about it for me that i can't quite put my finger on.

i have a couple of performing friends (non strippers) and i have a feeling i would sleep thoughout it.

I went to see a production of Cloudstreet that was on in Freo at the boathouse when I was 17. I still remember how magical it was. It was one of the best things I've ever seen.

Jean Anouilh!!! My favourite playwright ever, the English translations of his work are marvelous :)

*Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it. *

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

and

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid

God I love Anouilh!!!

that sounds great, chomsky. looks like he's a fan of goethe.
i'm gonna check this guy out.

His version of Antigone was written & performed in Paris during the nazi occupation of France. Apparently it was a thinly veiled attack on the nazis, which the french appreciated. But the Germans also thought it was grand because they identified with Creon.

It takes a mighty clever writer to walk that fine line!

When are you getting back on the stage, Gnomey?!

it does. it's hard writing stuff to be spoken without it sound preachy, by the way his stuff sounds, i'd like to hear it out loud to see how it works.

Tails, I just realised who you are! How the hell are ya? It's been a while :(

Mounty, I don't speak French so I don't know how good Anouilh's plays are in their original state. However, like I said above, the English translations of french theatre are usually of a very high quality (take Cyrano de Bergerac for example) & the language is both profound & poetic. I'm such a fan!

theatre can be fucking amazing, it's sad to see some folks writing off an entire artform

having said that, the theatre in this country is a bit poorly

too expensive and too conservative

partly due to our small population base being unable to support a thriving fringe scene i guess

so i take it you won't be seeing The Lost Echo with me, Mountme Man?

I love Tom Stoppard, Alan Ayckbourn, David Mamet.

Haven't seen any theatre in AGES. I'd like to go back.

Lally Katz keeps churning them out locally.

Plenty of stuff around in melbourne to see.

tom stoppard is my absolute favourite... closely followed by a whole bunch of others.

actually - I'm pretty sure my brother is in a production of R+G in a couple of weeks...

Tom Stoppard is fuckin' great, tangy_zizzle - my very favourite

Hey redlips, I saw once and for all... last night, and heartily concur. It's not only all of the above, but really accomplished too. Asides all the gushing you can find about the place you get to see two girls in one enormous pair of pants doing a cartwheel, and someone driving a ride on lawnmower thing into a pyramid of water cooler bottles.

amazing isn't it whathaveyou - just thinking about it makes me grin...

anything inneresting on in Melbourne theatre-wise at the moment... I'm down from Wed-Mon...

bump for day crew.

seeing gethsemane at belvoir st tonight

sort of looking forward to it - but will be assuming the brace position in anticipation of yet more fucken dodgy english accents

Anyone seen God Of Carnage?

oooh - do let us know how it is ___v

is curious

looks good.

Going to see One Night the Moon this weekend, cos an old school buddy is in it.

couldn't really recommend Gethsemane - although it was quite funny in parts and never less than mildly engaging

there was some awful stuff in the script, which surprises me 'cos i think of david hare as a pretty deft writer - and there were a few piss poor performances, which i suppose compounded the issue - although i was sympathetic to certain actors who had some pretty sketchy characterisation to work with

i got the same feeling i got with the vertical hour, which was that i'm not quite sure of the value of cargo cult australian versions of US/UK plays with such a culturally specific focus - sure there are ''universally resonant themes'' but in execution these things often feel a bit third-hand and bloodless

rhys muldoon was pretty good as the PM

hm, waiting for godot with ian mckellen at the opera house

i'd quite like to see this but i think $142 is taking the piss a bit so i might not

the original production had patrick stewart and simon callow as well... which might have come a bit closer to justifying the $$$

hmmm... tend to agree with that one.

i.e. too expensive

i'd quite like to see this but i think $142 is taking the piss a bit so i might not

Given Gatz was about $60 for seven or so hours, it certainly looks it.

i am sensing it might be worth waiting for a 2-for-1 deal on this puppy

My friend's just been shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwright Award - w00t!

anyone seen like a fishone at the STC? despite being wary of actors writing plays i have been well-disposed towards anthony weigh since seeing him excel in hedda gabler

I just saw this show in Darwin:

NGURRU-MILMARRAMIRIW / Wrong Skin

It was just brilliant! Funny, moving and technically incredible! See it in Sydney if you can...

as birthday present, friend is taking me is to see this:

august: osage county. it looks good.

for encouragment friend included review with a couple of quotes underlined, heavily.

'everything you never said to your parents is here for the taking'

and

'a lacerating study of midlife crisis'

yes, she obviously knows me.

Totally main stream compared to most theatre in this thread, but just saw Dr Zhivago w/ Anthony Warlow in Syd. Was brilliant! Other than the story, the sets were a real highlight for me, and I usually don't think too much about song and dance productions, but there was something about this one that set it above any other musical I've seen.