Oh la la, quelle drame, quelle chose!

Poor horse boy

You would think that after 25 years you'd maybe get over the little Cain and Abel thing you're trying to strike up between us? A very successful performance of victimhood with 'no one understands me' , 'no one goes to the theatre anymore' , 'what I do and what everyone else does shouldn't be called by the same name'... and of course the easy anti-intellectual crap. How predictable and tiresome....

Theatre, Film, TV 2011

Entirely selective, started late:

Film: Rivers and Tides (Goldsworthy), The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo), Caché (Haneke), The Green Hornet (generic), Unknown (generic), You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Allen), Dorian Grey, Is Anyone There

TV: More Dexter, in fact all of it, True Blood (most of it)

Der Strum, KAMMERSPIELE, Muenchen, 26.07.2010

Interesting to see a production done by a company of actors, a show in rep. Despite the fact that my German is quite rough (and indeed not fully understanding the language of course liberates oneto focus in other directions), I thoroughly enjoyed this production, complete with its karaoke, it's kraftwerk vs rammmstein dance offs, it's projections. There was a certain sloth that had snuck its way into the psychophysical score, with actors not really engaging with impulse in a way that would lead to convincing harnessing of action.

LUMINATO and CATR, Toronto, June, 2010

Que le temps passe quand on s'amuse. Brief listing:

Dbi Young piece.

Nina Arsenault Barbie piece

Africa Trilogy: Volcano

Bestland: Rimini Protokoll

Frankenstein (the Musical) CANSTAGE, Wri/Dir John Christenson, 22.05.10

This was a kind of a twee rendition of a lugubrious masterpiece. I needed to go to the graveyard with my familiar afterwards and nibble on some corpses to remind myself of life's more ghoulish undertones. Nonetheless, I'm very happy that this Canadian company has been able to create this show from scratch and make the most of it's enjoyable and unapologetic theatricalism, it's use of complex language and phraseology (comments overheard of the likes of "there's too much language in this" suggest that the show will only go so far in our visual culture), and its competent cast. Still though, why explore the grotesque and the fantastical if all you're really going to end up with is a complex rendition of a Sat am tv show for kids? Any kid worth their salt is going to be hankering for more...

This is what happens next, Necessary Angel w/ CanStage, Brooks/McKivor, 04.24.2010

Oh Daniels

Oh Daniels

Brooks and McKivor

What a sad piece of shite you have offered!

Is this what the Siminovitch does to you!

Good actor and writer

both

But as I sit sat slept through

this bourgeois fantasia

with a little spritz of meta meta

theatre

a touch of sentiment here

a cute gay there

the requisite odd ethnic fortune teller there

the little narrative trick of

having the kid describe the death as a monster

I couldn't help but noticing that everyone there

was monied

dressed

primped

bored

bored bored bored

and lining up to pee.