Witness Performance | Samsara | Activity https://witnessperformance.com/members/samsara/activity/ Activity feed for Samsara. Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:24:08 +1100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-AU 30 hourly 2 88b91b6fffe1273d4d9193b29ef4a4df Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/melbourne-fringe-a-red-square/#comment-10683 Sat, 21 Nov 2020 06:10:48 +1100 How interesting Rob. My copy of red square included a review written by me and the congratulatory theatre scene was filled with my head. I wonder if they manage to do this for everyone who buys a copy or just reviewers…?

In reply to - Robert Reid wrote a new post The Powerpoint adventures of a red square invite Robert Reid into a bizarre alternative world There has been a square red envelope on my desk for a few days now: bright and […] ]]> 51bc11fe9ab715ab6df5eaac8c01db36 Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/on-reading-playscripts/#comment-9000 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 01:17:51 +1000 Once again I find myself in agreement with you Mark. The one thing I want to leave a piece of theatre doing, and what I want my audiences to do, is to engage in robust discussion about ideas and concepts. With a production background of course I care about staging and presentation and interpretation. In the end though, what inspires me or…[Read more]

In reply to - Mark Pritchard wrote a new post What is a playscript? What does it mean to read it? Mark Pritchard takes us through the process of conjuring a three-dimensional world from the two dimensions of a page I love […] ]]> aecc09560413446fcdf8d30ac72efe2d Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/experiments-in-form/#comment-8901 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:17:37 +1000 A well considered essay Ben. One thing I would say is don’t be so quick to blame the medium. I have seen plenty of plays around 2 hours in length which have made me want to gnaw off my own leg rather than have to stay to the very end… 😉

In reply to - BEN BROOKER wrote a new post Tiny Bricks’ As One demonstrates that live-streaming theatre is a whole new ballgame, says Ben Brooker Note: spoilers within I may as well start with a confession: I haven’t wat […] ]]> d827619608e75ecd89a607e705aef760 Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/theatre-of-isolation/#comment-8900 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:09:27 +1000 Hi Alison, I have watched both sessions so far. I agree with your critique of the second session. I personally find this a great way to experience monologues though. I have always struggled with appreciating monologues as live theatre. They never quite leave me feeling sated, but this hybrid presentation – living in a space somewhere between in…[Read more]

In reply to - Alison Croggon wrote a new post ‘It’s almost like theatre’: Alison Croggon reviews Malthouse Theatre’s The Lockdown Monologues and Uninvited Guests’ Love Letters Straight from the Heart I have all sorts of […] ]]> 6a5ffa27da89603c052ecb2f62f326ea Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/on-reading-playscripts/#comment-8897 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:56:25 +1000 Hi Mark, there is so much I agree with here such as your opening observation “To understand playscripts, we have to wrestle with them – where they come from, who wrote them and why, who edited and formatted them, when in the process of play-making they were put down in print.”
Then you follow with how, as a reader, you wrestle with what is not t…[Read more]

In reply to - Mark Pritchard wrote a new post What is a playscript? What does it mean to read it? Mark Pritchard takes us through the process of conjuring a three-dimensional world from the two dimensions of a page I love […] ]]> 23f3bf488c52b1ffba835f421614ed83 Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/return-to-escape-from-woomera/#comment-4281 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 01:24:17 +1000 Hi Rob,

Intriguing review and great perspective. I saw it on opening and we had Katherine Neale on the panel – she initiated the original game project ( http://www.whatdidshethink.com/2019/05/return-to-escape-from-wimmera-live-art.html ) so I think we got more discussion on the game itself and how they developed it in close consultation with…[Read more]

In reply to - Robert Reid wrote a new post How do white artists use refugees to make art? Return to Escape from Woomera prompts Robert Reid to ponder well-meaning political art in the Age of Morrison I’m at Arts House to see R […] ]]> 5d0238a7a7e14761241eba1bfe632091 Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/australian-plays-our-lost-canons/#comment-3344 Thu, 09 May 2019 06:39:02 +1000 Great article Rob. I have been saying for years a written play is more than just what is performed on stage. I don’t know what the prospects are regarding lost canon but it would be great if we would start putting energy into recognising the current canon. So much of what we know about the history of so many cultures comes through their written…[Read more]

In reply to - Robert Reid wrote a new post ‘We cannot keep pulling up the past behind us as we go’: Robert Reid on the rolling cultural disaster of unpublished Australian plays A few years ago I was in London to workshop a […] ]]> c1dff68485005c82c67cc53b446a26fe Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/dance-massive-skeleton-tree/#comment-1919 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:52:07 +1100 Hi Alison, you need to check the spelling for Niklas in the review 🙂

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 […] ]]> c59b5c31404f26bc5acc42ca901e5f95 Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/how-to-think-like-a-theatre-critic/#comment-1391 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:04:21 +1100 Hi Alison,

I love this paragraph:

‘It will be a response. You will bring to your response everything that you brought to the theatre: your attention, your knowledge, your experience, your sensibility, your life. You know that the less you bring, the less you’ll have to respond with. You don’t care about your opinion. Everyone has an opi…[Read more]

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, […] ]]> a5cfa0df232b15d63b5c7ddf4d8f1915 Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/midsumma-cock/#comment-1305 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:50:24 +1100 You are a bit more generous than I was Robert. Yes, the big problem is the script and Beng stages most of it well but having all the cast standing around the outside of the arena made the whole thing fall in a hole for me. If I wanted to see that in theatre I would – well – just read the play.

In reply to - Robert Reid wrote a new post The artifical dilemma of binaries: Robert Reid on Fifteen Minutes from Anywhere’s return season of Cock The return season of 15 Minutes from Anywhere’s production of Mike B […] ]]> ab903121790a859c83d96d3b968e4765 Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/midsumma-truly-madly-disturbingly/#comment-1105 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 23:52:21 +1100 Oh sorry, the byline lists it as posted by you.

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 […] ]]> 1082255856ab8c57d720c721ec8d33dc Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/midsumma-truly-madly-disturbingly/#comment-1086 Mon, 28 Jan 2019 06:07:22 +1100 Hi Alison

I had the same questions and reservations when I saw the show too. I wasn’t there to review, just to watch. Pretty much everything you question are the questions raised in me too. I wanted to like this show but I left not knowing if I would like myself if I liked it… 🙂

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 […] ]]> bd94c646adccd4f8feb41586b15e4e2c Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/im-done-with-the-bare-minimum/#comment-868 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:52:07 +1100 Alison, you can’t end with a sentence like that and assume the conversation would end. Firstly both you and Will have been complicit in this conversation so it is not my sole responsibility it has continued. I merely respond to you provocations as you do to mine. Secondly I never characterised Description Victoria in such a way although I don’t…[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 […] ]]> cc8533a5a038bf4064b452eb8cbd9cce Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/im-done-with-the-bare-minimum/#comment-866 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 04:57:21 +1100 Firstly, it is not hearsay when it is happening to me directly, Will. I was there. I heard it, I saw it, and it happened to me. In fact, I was the first describer to find evidence of the public rhetoric being thrown about and brought it to the attention of the VA audio description service. I have also said I agree everything which was said and…[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 […] ]]> 5aa85de5c39e16333c56f6a53403742c Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/im-done-with-the-bare-minimum/#comment-863 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 03:21:43 +1100 Hi Olivia and Will, I understand the point of view of the artical and I mention in both my comments I totally agree with the access issues you raise and, as I mention, Vision Australia has been wrestling with these issues for a very long time now and I hope with so many advocates the issue is redressed somehow.

Will, I absolutely do have…[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 […] ]]> 73fe6477b3805a2ab50d3d9ac050963a Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/im-done-with-the-bare-minimum/#comment-852 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 07:05:40 +1100 Hi Alison, yes, I am not disputing anything Olivia says about the need for more and better services. Everyone, even Vision Australia is trying to solve that one. It is always a difficult balance for describers, particularly in scripts which are script heavy, trying to provide enough description and some describers are, of course, better than…[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 […] ]]> 2aeb25ffdba2b4284daffdb5b7d9fc2e Samsara posted a new activity comment https://witnessperformance.com/im-done-with-the-bare-minimum/#comment-850 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:10:08 +1100 Olivia this is a great article and I agree with everything you are saying. I used to be a volunteer audio describer with VA (for four years) and I am mildly concerned about how you have characterised the service. It sounds an awful lot like the poor rhetoric Description Victoria bandied about when they first set up shop in Melbourne. I know from…[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 […] ]]> 2f3d3f5f45bbf6a019c0b943d279de72 Samsara replied to the topic April Live Night: PERSONAL in the forum Live Nights https://witnessperformance.com/forums/topic/april-live-night-personal/#post-3201 Sun, 29 Apr 2018 06:50:44 +1000 So in the end I did choose to review it. http://www.whatdidshethink.com/2018/04/personal-theatre-review.html

I also remembered the two shows that came to mind watching Personal
History History History at the Substation in 2017 https://www.weekendnotes.com/history-history-history-substation/
and
Endings at Arts House…[Read more]

]]> 0 601631e0f54ce3916332af865bd12393 Samsara replied to the topic April Live Night: PERSONAL in the forum Live Nights https://witnessperformance.com/forums/topic/april-live-night-personal/#post-3173 Sat, 28 Apr 2018 01:24:37 +1000 I am reminded of the Thoreau quote “The question is not what you look at, but what you see” and with this show I feel so clearly reminded that every audience member will come out with a different experience.

I wish those of you who felt an emptiness could have seen what I saw because I was not at all disappointed. I know bits were missing but I…[Read more]

]]> 0 98ee148bb764edafa93623fe809a934d Samsara replied to the topic May Live Night: The Bleeding Tree in the forum Live Nights https://witnessperformance.com/forums/topic/may-live-night-the-bleeding-tree/#post-3158 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 04:04:30 +1000 Just booked. It didn’t say Witness so I just booked $30 offer. It seemed like the right thing and I have a concession card if I have to use it 🙂

]]> 0 24ee77f86af905ea457dfe1b499dec23 Samsara replied to the topic April Live Night: PERSONAL in the forum Live Nights https://witnessperformance.com/forums/topic/april-live-night-personal/#post-3157 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 03:56:20 +1000 I think, in a way, we were too big a group to avoid having the shyer people feel it was hard. I remember at the Malthouse it was discussed that we would break into smaller groups and then move about between them to share ideas and therefore everyone would have more ‘space’ to talk. I think that is what Arts House was setting up for us, much like…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9b01409f9d14f9770be938c856f7ce9 Samsara replied to the topic May Live Night: The Bleeding Tree in the forum Live Nights https://witnessperformance.com/forums/topic/may-live-night-the-bleeding-tree/#post-3092 Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:09:08 +1000 So I tried to book and when I got to the ticketing site it said it had applied the Witness discount but the prices looked the same as the normal ones. Is it the $30 offer we should select? It wasn’t very clear…

]]> 0 483e8460d35aeca019b6ae265a730af9 Samsara changed their profile picture https://witnessperformance.com/activity/p/242/ Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:57:24 +1000 0 8bc427f61a405f924b91e7c1b8f8a72f Samsara's profile was updated https://witnessperformance.com/activity/p/241/ Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:56:11 +1000 0 5930709e9a81a7b2e3065e76338c5ed3 Samsara replied to the topic April Live Night: PERSONAL in the forum Live Nights https://witnessperformance.com/forums/topic/april-live-night-personal/#post-3091 Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:54:59 +1000 Just booked. This looks great. Thanks for choosing this one 🙂

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