https://witnessperformance.com/members/sarahmc/activity/ Activity feed for Sarah McNeill. Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:24:08 +1100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-AU 30 hourly 2 77ef04b4e6f8383338fe4016b4690d68 https://witnessperformance.com/the-rush-trial-a-backgrounder/#comment-754 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 07:12:55 +1100 Thanks for reminding everyone that it is the newspaper’s inappropriate reporting that is on trial here, not a woman’s, or a man’s personal definition of what’s appropriate. A newspaper ran a story without evidence or confirmation from those involved. As in subsequent cases where politicians have taken the lead, media needs to be reminded that the…[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 […] ]]> 92b61cfe37add1aec2490a3e0ec29d13 https://witnessperformance.com/fury/#comment-419 Thu, 05 Jul 2018 03:32:51 +1000 I’m in Perth so haven’t seen the production but given Alison’s long essay about theatre criticism and how it often resorts to “commentary that’s all about spectacle at the expense of substance”, I am disappointed to read such disparaging and dismissive comments like “classic patriarchal heteronormative form”. Its pomposity aside, theatre should s…[Read more]

In reply to - Robert Reid wrote a new post Robert Reid reviews Fury, Joanna Murray-Smith’s exploration of middle-class extremism, and is unimpressed. White. Noise. So much white on stage. White Walls. White floor. White cu […] ]]>