Witness Performance | Ben Keene | Friends Activity https://witnessperformance.com/members/ben-keene/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Ben Keene's friends. Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:24:08 +1100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-AU 30 hourly 2 02c9c0bb549bec625eb8f1f6055e3c04 Alison Croggon wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=8125 Sun, 27 Jun 2021 01:01:18 +1000 Childrens performance critic Gully Thompson says that Parrwang Lifts the Sky is a thrilling example of performance for young people

Children’s theatre is often at its best when it takes risks. As a child, I r […]

]]> 86f3113fac19ace762ad879bef4a0f81 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/i-was-never-afraid-of-bleeding-for-myself-or-for-an-audience/#comment-9381 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 02:44:55 +1000 Hi Majid. What a great idea! It would be great. If we ever get back to the stage. 🙂 x

In reply to - Asher Wolf wrote a new post In the second Witness essay on digital life for BLEED 2020, highly-online writer Asher Wolf contemplates her online and corporeal lives in an isolated forest during COVID-19 I […] ]]> 764aa59dc28ac77a96614ae33f0cec77 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/arts-funding-a-survey-of-destruction/#comment-7801 Mon, 11 May 2020 03:22:47 +1000 Thanks Stephen

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post Alison Croggon thinks it’s time we faced up to the fact that everything is going according to plan Over the past month, a lot of people have been asking me about what I think […] ]]> 898cfad82250707bca8dda7b74e98a3f Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/arts-funding-a-survey-of-destruction/#comment-7621 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:18:15 +1000 Thanks, Ian. Yes, the Australia Council continues to be in an impossible position, continually on the back foot trying to cope with the continual crisis. Interesting times! I hope we can rescue something good from this, but it is going to be so difficult. On the other hand, there is now very little to lose.

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post Alison Croggon thinks it’s time we faced up to the fact that everything is going according to plan Over the past month, a lot of people have been asking me about what I think […] ]]> 967d60c9cacd4280e57accf522d7741c Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/arts-funding-a-survey-of-destruction/#comment-7619 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:08:45 +1000 Thanks Matthew. I think that’s what we’ve been doing. I’m hope we can begin to do something else! x

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post Alison Croggon thinks it’s time we faced up to the fact that everything is going according to plan Over the past month, a lot of people have been asking me about what I think […] ]]> de38f524d5d48fca62ba7edf4f2db836 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/art-in-dark-times/#comment-7539 Tue, 07 Apr 2020 08:54:40 +1000 Thanks so much, David! I hope you’re keeping well in these bleak times.

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘Think of all the great art!’ Let’s not. Alison Croggon ponders art in dark times.  After the election of Donald Trump, a meme started doing the rounds on social media. Well, at […] ]]> 89d4ec66371e625db841438c749900e7 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/art-in-dark-times/#comment-7528 Sat, 04 Apr 2020 23:43:16 +1100 Thanks Matthew

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘Think of all the great art!’ Let’s not. Alison Croggon ponders art in dark times.  After the election of Donald Trump, a meme started doing the rounds on social media. Well, at […] ]]> bc01801592726c3e2cb979c482d372bd Alison Croggon wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=6852 Sat, 14 Mar 2020 01:40:33 +1100 Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s Saigon is remarkably beautiful theatre that reminds us what a main stage play can be, says Alison Croggon

Update: Sadly, the final two performances are cancelled at the touring c […]

]]> df1db08d88efc9e4fb2d5677f6595045 Alison Croggon wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=6794 Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:52:14 +1100 ‘MÁM is a
celebration of ordinary moments, which are as mysterious and ambiguous as the
supernatural spirits that haunt and weave through them’: Alison Croggon on Teaċ
Damsa’s exhilarating dance theatre

As […]

]]> dbdd10b2479d5fdf33e7e1be628d7316 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/sorrow-beyond-dreams/#comment-7319 Sat, 29 Feb 2020 13:43:17 +1100 Thanks Chris. I’m glad you enjoyed it! Yes, it does stay with you. I haven’t seen anything quite like it before.

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘Difficult truths wrought into profound, unsettling harmonies’: Alison Croggon explores the sorrow and light in Kamila Andini’s remarkable dance theatre work The Seen and Unsee […] ]]> ff0c803b73e6debab637c6581a856244 Alison Croggon wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=6744 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 04:31:21 +1100 ‘Difficult truths wrought into
profound, unsettling harmonies’: Alison Croggon explores the sorrow and light
in Kamila Andini’s remarkable dance theatre work The Seen and Unseen at AsiaTOPA

AsiaTOPA 2020 – or, […]

]]> 6f57eeca30c8d65694938a1596ab766a Alison Croggon wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=6725 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:51:26 +1100 ‘It’s interesting how lines that once simply slipped by register with spikes now’: Alison Croggon on the return of Ridiculusmus’ two-person The Importance of Being Earnest

I’m getting older, which can be bo […]

]]> 47acc9e6be54aec723db64ed61f2cc3a Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/opera-and-the-invisibility-of-women/#comment-6886 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 03:01:31 +1100 Hi Ceridwen, many thanks for your comment. “Gender equity” is consciously used here, and therefore not at all misleading: at Witness we wish to include all women (including trans women, who are particularly marginalised) in the language we use. As modern science confirms, sex is by no means as binary as patriarchal tradition wishes us to believe,…[Read more]

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘A galvanising moment’: a conference last month on contemporary opera saw the frustrations of women creators boil over. Alison Croggon reports Perception matters. It is not simply […] ]]> bf9b0611da37b986b5c86f0a53c378f3 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/earshot-the-poetry-of-the-everyday/#comment-6239 Sat, 07 Dec 2019 23:15:22 +1100 Thanks Peter. Nudging a door open here and there is pretty much the best that anyone can do!

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post Kate Hunter’s Earshot – remounted last week for the Due West Arts Festival – is a darkly pleasurable delight, says Alison Croggon Last week I went to the Due West Arts Festi […] ]]> 1998d0510a2f89083bfcd8eeacefbd74 Alison Croggon wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=6250 Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:47:49 +1100 The Melbourne Theatre Company’s Photograph 51 dramatises the inexorable diminishment of a brilliant woman, says Alison Croggon
Sexism, like every -ism and –phobia, is, in the end, simply exhausting. These str […]

]]> 34506b922dc0f2c4c5b65b7942db834d Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/the-obscurity-of-shallows/#comment-5328 Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:42:51 +1100 Maybe? I mean, one brings one’s subjectivity to all art (or what’s the point?) but clearly others felt the same, so it wasn’t only me. (Not that that invalidates your own response at all.) Knowing the story made no difference for me, and the more I researched it the more I felt it was a missed opportunity, Also the text was for me utterly banal…[Read more]

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘It makes sense to take a theatrically experimental approach to this work; what baffled me was the falsity that hollows out its artifice.’ Alison Croggon on The Nico Project We all […] ]]> 89c120a8eafdd9c86133dc92ec20e21b Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/the-obscurity-of-shallows/#comment-5310 Sun, 20 Oct 2019 22:05:49 +1100 Hi Tom! Interestingly there were moments – particularly the part that for me really worked, which focused on the band- that really strongly reminded me of Jacobs’ work. But maybe that was why I found it so lacking? I missed the mix of cool intellectuality and raw passion that happens in Fraught Outfit’s (and others) productions. They always fee…[Read more]

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘It makes sense to take a theatrically experimental approach to this work; what baffled me was the falsity that hollows out its artifice.’ Alison Croggon on The Nico Project We all […] ]]> 29b25e1fc327d5d89a681a71af1729d4 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/the-obscurity-of-shallows/#comment-5272 Sat, 19 Oct 2019 21:25:50 +1100 Hi Mick, I take your point, and I too thought of the resources that went into that show and how they might have been otherwise used; but I can think of a lot of commissioned festival shows that have not been failures. Off the top of my head, Stephanie Lake’s Colossus, which was co-commissioned by the Fringe and programmed by MIAF (you can read m…[Read more]

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘It makes sense to take a theatrically experimental approach to this work; what baffled me was the falsity that hollows out its artifice.’ Alison Croggon on The Nico Project We all […] ]]> 6ed23fabfc298a816cb4e3d4b9b93185 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/the-obscurity-of-shallows/#comment-5260 Sat, 19 Oct 2019 02:44:38 +1100 Thanks Jo. It was a puzzler, for sure! Though I know of others who liked it.

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘It makes sense to take a theatrically experimental approach to this work; what baffled me was the falsity that hollows out its artifice.’ Alison Croggon on The Nico Project We all […] ]]> 455f9b50ce540237a356a8d41dd8d4a1 Alison Croggon wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=6146 Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:23:37 +1100 ‘It feels as urgent as his work ever has, but the complexities have deepened profoundly. Unmissable.” Alison Croggon on Hofesh Schechter’s Grand Finale at the Melbourne Festival
Always beneath the skin, the […]

]]> f51d173e628c58dadf7fbfdc8646b278 Alison Croggon wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=6040 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:01:46 +1000 ‘In this assertion of humanity lingers the spark that becomes revolution’: Robert Reid on Wild Cherries at La Mama
Daniel Keene has been one of Australia’s best known playwrights, both locally and i […]

]]> 79307b60a4b96d0f0f71d89acd12fc9e Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/politics-as-pride/#comment-4695 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 07:59:44 +1000 Oops, out of date bio – Gully has been reviewing for us since last year! Will update!

In reply to - Witness Performance wrote a new post ‘The level of the audience’s participation in the show, whether it was screams, cheers, boos or bear growls, was something to behold’: youth critic Gully Thompson on Black H […] ]]> b79da753ebe86916b0f357551c613b3d Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/storm-in-a-tea-cup/#comment-4137 Sun, 30 Jun 2019 23:29:25 +1000 Well, as I said right at the beginning of this conversation: a lot of the beauty of art is that different people have different responses to the same work, for all sorts of different reasons. You are very welcome to disagree, but you seem rather to be claiming that any response that differs from yours is invalid. It would be more interesting to…[Read more]

In reply to - Monique Grbec wrote a new post The stage adaptation of Colin Thiele’s beloved book Storm Boy is ‘a carnival of theatrical colonialism and missed opportunities’, says Monique Grbec Storm Boy, the 1964 YA novella by […] ]]> 6d8655fbd727307e0bdd4785ae8a2e51 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/storm-in-a-tea-cup/#comment-4126 Sat, 29 Jun 2019 01:05:37 +1000 Hey, Hideaway was literally telling Storm Boy he couldn’t speak to any strangers, or be visible in any way, and punished him if he did. Storm Boy was completely isolated from human contact by his father. Classic abusive behaviours, for those sensitive to the red lights. None of this happens in the book, fwiw, nor in the first film adaptation, w…[Read more]

In reply to - Monique Grbec wrote a new post The stage adaptation of Colin Thiele’s beloved book Storm Boy is ‘a carnival of theatrical colonialism and missed opportunities’, says Monique Grbec Storm Boy, the 1964 YA novella by […] ]]> 9ae3369868275ab4bfa419b8378930f8 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/storm-in-a-tea-cup/#comment-4041 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 23:51:07 +1000 For my part, for about the first third I thought I was watching a story about an abused child…so I don’t think it’s such a stretch. All the themes Monique mentions are in the play, and how each of us responds or picks up on them depends on each of our experiences. Perhaps this is a perspective we’re not used to seeing in our criticism.

In reply to - Monique Grbec wrote a new post The stage adaptation of Colin Thiele’s beloved book Storm Boy is ‘a carnival of theatrical colonialism and missed opportunities’, says Monique Grbec Storm Boy, the 1964 YA novella by […] ]]> d979d47572b73ec7a8efbfe2239f9c25 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/storm-in-a-tea-cup/#comment-4035 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 22:22:40 +1000 Hi Luke, one of the interesting things about theatre – in fact, art in general – is that it’s possible to have very different responses to the same work. Why would Monique’s experience be more “preconceived” than yours? Like everyone else, she watched the show and this was her response. Perhaps it isn’t surprising that someone who has Stolen…[Read more]

In reply to - Monique Grbec wrote a new post The stage adaptation of Colin Thiele’s beloved book Storm Boy is ‘a carnival of theatrical colonialism and missed opportunities’, says Monique Grbec Storm Boy, the 1964 YA novella by […] ]]> decc3e970751d4aa4f6282ded57ae541 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/quantum-pap-heisenberg/#comment-3668 Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:57:04 +1000 I think you shouldn’t avoid his work, I’ve really enjoyed a lot of it. The baffling thing about this play is why it was programmed. It’s not derivative of Copenhagen – which I didn’t like either, ftr! – but it draws on that metaphor. As do many many other works of art!

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg is faux theatre for a poverty-stricken time, says Alison Croggon The Fairfax Theatre at Arts Centre Melbourne is a famously difficult space. Originally […] ]]> 4a32f7a8107cd72db91deafe91232570 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/writing-as-freedom-suzan-lori-parks/#comment-3342 Thu, 09 May 2019 01:42:29 +1000 It would actually be super great to see a remount of this production!

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post The exhilarating Victorian College of the Arts production of Fucking A was a rare chance to see one of the US’s most significant playwrights, says Alison Croggon Suzan-Lori Parks is […] ]]> 6365d65fca32821cb02e433f2a03a3fd Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/hydra-a-intimacy-muted/#comment-3340 Thu, 09 May 2019 00:12:32 +1000 *Strikes forehead* Of course! Will fix and thanks for the note.

In reply to - Jane Howard wrote a new post Based on the story of the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, Jane Howard says that Hydra is most compelling in its intimacy It’s the 1950s. We’re on Hydra, an island two hou […] ]]> 4164388c95d6f94c18a3b3e3bde8d756 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/the-rush-trial-a-backgrounder/#comment-2677 Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:24:05 +1000 Thanks Matthew. As I said in this piece, neither Rush nor Norvill were on trial and this trial didn’t determine anything except whether Nationwide News had defamed Rush (which in my opinion it did). The DT was found to have defamed him, and its defence of truth – which means that defamation is allowed in certain circumstances – was thrown out of…[Read more]

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘The trial has prompted a deep anger within the theatre community. Its reverberations will echo for a long time’: Alison Croggon looks at the Geoffrey Rush defamation trial and its […] ]]> 1bf99f077583c8350b071873720092e4 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/dance-massive-skeleton-tree/#comment-1923 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 22:10:22 +1100 Thanks Samsara – to think I’ve spent all these years spelling it right! Corrected now.

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘We all vanish, but the traces of our passing – ephemeral, glittering – remain in our wake’: Alison Croggon on Stephanie Lake’s Skeleton Tree Last year, Stephanie Lake’s Colos […] ]]> 5cf01a187fe97a88284e76c5ffc80715 Alison Croggon wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5318 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:40:17 +1100 ‘A beautiful opening of the self’: Alison Croggon on Public Actions from Luke George and Collaborators
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What is dance? Is it embodied thinking? Dynamic representation? A temporal narrative? A series […]

]]> 01b3707a88b8f0e9b0a03dacec1396cc Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/adelaide-festival-la-reprise-histoires-du-theatre-1/#comment-1694 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:00:31 +1100 I suppose…the reality of that violence, that we see constructed in front of us, says something about how violence is constructed and represented? But yeah, for me it just said that we have the power to construct this violence, whether it’s real or imagined. It’s interesting how that violence for me obliterated everything else in the rest of the…[Read more]

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘It feels like the same old exploitations, enacted now in the name of art’: Alison Croggon on Milo Rau’s La Reprise Content warning: racist and homophobic violence Swiss director […] ]]> 03fe62901f7531cba36c00f1c3d86e62 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/rage-humiliation-and-opportunity-metoo-in-the-performing-arts/#comment-1508 Sun, 10 Mar 2019 06:04:33 +1100 I’d say in this case it’s about protecting the confidentiality of the complainant rather than any lack of courage or some kind of protective self interest on the part of Dan. Also, as Dan points out, it’s not enough to hang a few scapegoats, because these problems are endemic and occur throughout the industry.

In reply to - Dan Spielman wrote a new post ‘We should be thinking, not about how these processes inhibit our expression, but how they might liberate it’: actor Dan Spielman explores the implications of #MeToo in the performing […] ]]> 72b2d6c8e4004ce5b360e93d1d6e9b08 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/how-to-think-like-a-theatre-critic/#comment-1396 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 07:49:47 +1100 Thank you, Samsara! 🙂

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘You want to be a critic who thinks with all of her body’: Alison Croggon on the process of reviewing, extracted from her new collection of criticism, Remembered Presences First, […] ]]> a683f3caa0246be22339825eacf3ecef Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child/#comment-1366 Sat, 02 Mar 2019 02:58:56 +1100 Thanks – it’s nice to be linked to! x

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘Unambiguously a triumph’: Alison Croggon on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child [Spoiler free] I still remember first reading Harry Potter. When The Chamber of Secrets was […] ]]> 97698d49106c9cd4e86bc4b23cc004aa Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child/#comment-1363 Sat, 02 Mar 2019 02:28:06 +1100 No problem! It’s great if you can link back if you quote. And I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I agree that William McKenna was a big surprise!

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘Unambiguously a triumph’: Alison Croggon on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child [Spoiler free] I still remember first reading Harry Potter. When The Chamber of Secrets was […] ]]> 02117ea66c32960fb06cb6ca5aabf3da Alison Croggon wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5179 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 11:19:37 +1100 ‘Unambiguously a triumph’: Alison Croggon on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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I still remember first reading Harry Potter. When The Chamber of Secrets was published, an old friend told me that […]

]]> 8ae8e38131f024de49776ae3b9727b93 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/perth-festival-the-magic-flute/#comment-1307 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:57:20 +1100 Thanks Al! As you have probably guessed, I know a bit more about the Rosicrucians and alchemy and so on than I know about the musical history of opera 🙂 I understand e flat in the overture and the opera also references Masonic symbolism?

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘The whole production looks like an attack on heteronormative patriarchy, dressed up as a surreal and charming fairytale’: Alison Croggon on Barrie Kosky and 1927’s The Magic […] ]]> 5e779b1e44657e81c2ad510c9d93b666 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/perth-festival-kwongkan/#comment-1303 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 02:57:55 +1100 Hi David – Yes, that inner circular monologue goes on and on in my head too. Despair is paralysing and guarantees our diminishing futures… Maybe what art can do is give people courage, especially to imagine that things might be otherwise, which is not a small thing.

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘Kwongkan squanders its moments of power by reaching for a simplistic idea of protest’: Alison Croggon on a Perth Festival dance work that attempts to take on the enormity of […] ]]> 3e149a90b431f0ca3006e9faa4ef1546 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/perth-festival-the-magic-flute/#comment-1298 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:37:51 +1100 Thank you! Corrected.

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘The whole production looks like an attack on heteronormative patriarchy, dressed up as a surreal and charming fairytale’: Alison Croggon on Barrie Kosky and 1927’s The Magic […] ]]> 5f0bdb551ab82c101ca055145dfa702e Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/the-lady-in-the-van-a-complex-tedium/#comment-1274 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 07:31:10 +1100 Hi Tom – the design certainly dominated the whole production! It’s interesting to compare the film – it’s on Netflix if you’re interested – which does give an idea of relationship between them (as well as the environment around them) that is missing here. I doubt I’d love this play even in the best circumstances, but it should be a lot more li…[Read more]

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘There’s a very British heartlessness lurking in the centre of this play that the over-produced staging inadvertently exposes’: Alison Croggon on The Lady in the Van The tedium t […] ]]> 0ce5adb3b253521316061012c8a8c675 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/media-politics-and-art/#comment-1213 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:14:20 +1100 Hi Matt, thank you – delighted to be in the company you place us! Yes, it’s very depressing that these artificial divisions condition our media, to the impoverishment of all discourses. Perhaps in these other corners we can stage a counter-conversation… I hope so. Warmly, Alison

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post If the Australian media understood theatre instead of dissing it, we might have a better chance of seeing our politics clearly. Alison Croggon explains why Last week I read a […] ]]> 73c6a03b85dc3f7077efabdc236cb187 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/midsumma-truly-madly-disturbingly/#comment-1150 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:15:16 +1100 It’s already prepared, as part of the “school” fiction.

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post How far can comedy go? Carissa Lee ponders Truly Madly Britney’s take on fan culture at Melbourne’s Midsumma festival [Spoilers within] Stan culture is a recent i […] ]]> 161b2aa0c47edfb909454e4143f54ef8 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/midsumma-truly-madly-disturbingly/#comment-1106 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 23:57:23 +1100 *Sound of editor quietly screaming* The byline is now corrected

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post How far can comedy go? Carissa Lee ponders Truly Madly Britney’s take on fan culture at Melbourne’s Midsumma festival [Spoilers within] Stan culture is a recent i […] ]]> 3c5a4ccee0ba1ad6316554ac57af7449 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/midsumma-truly-madly-disturbingly/#comment-1104 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 23:44:25 +1100 Thanks Samsara – I haven’t seen it, but you’re not the only person who’s said this about Carissa’s review…

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post How far can comedy go? Carissa Lee ponders Truly Madly Britney’s take on fan culture at Melbourne’s Midsumma festival [Spoilers within] Stan culture is a recent i […] ]]> 98d85094900b009492fe637ac4cea67a Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/midsumma-flying-beyond-the-binaries/#comment-1084 Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:31:37 +1100 I do too! I’d see it again tomorrow

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘Being part of that audience was electrifying’: Alison Croggon on Mama Alto and Maude Davey’s Gender Euphoria “Trans” is, like a lot of the English language, stolen from Latin. A h […] ]]> 46d3ae1fe918d64eda85afea0ef711cd Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/ibsen-hollowed-out-a-dolls-house-part-2/#comment-1049 Sun, 20 Jan 2019 04:41:44 +1100 Always happy to be of service 🙂

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘The emptiest experience I’ve had in a theatre this year’: Alison Croggon on Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part 2 Theatre has made me well used to what Michael Billington once mem […] ]]> bf9abeb451c0d9963df892bbe29c1878 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/notes-from-a-wandering-mind/#comment-951 Wed, 09 Jan 2019 03:39:10 +1100 Thanks, Larry!

In reply to - Olivia Muscat wrote a new post ‘I was desperately waiting for something to throw me off, to make me sit up and really pay attention’: Blind reviewer Olivia Muscat attends an audio-described performance of The Arc […] ]]> fffc2d8362667664ee519f0b4e0e9889 Alison Croggon posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/im-done-with-the-bare-minimum/#comment-869 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:05:55 +1100 Samsara, I suggest the main message here is to listen to what Olivia and other Blind and VI people have to say. You have instead focused on taking offence at Olivia’s descriptions of her own experiences and turned this into a singularly profitless airing of grievances. Olivia’s comments are measured and also fair (she said she is grateful for the…[Read more]

In reply to - Olivia Muscat wrote a new post ‘Some days it feels like I’m a starving animal, happy to accept the tiniest crumbs someone is willing to throw my way’: Blind critic Olivia Muscat calls for a total rethink of our i […] ]]>