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Vanessa Giron wrote a new post 4 years, 8 months ago
Woolf’s classic essay A Room of One’s Own is much more than Feminism 101. Vanessa Giron on Peta Hanrahan’s moving stage adaptation
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New Review critic Vanessa Giron walks through the dreamscapes of Footscray during its inaugural arts festival
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A compelling piece of immersive performance, Sleepover Gurlz left New Review critic Vanessa Giron questioning her life
I’m invited to a stranger’s house. With 10 other people I’ve never met, I’m taken to a bedro […] -
Vanessa Giron wrote a new post 5 years, 6 months ago
‘She makes you feel totally captivated and invested’: New Review critic Vanessa Giron on Night Terrors at Melbourne Fringe
I don’t like horror stories. But I discovered that I can sit through a one-hour show in w […] -
Vanessa Giron wrote a new post 5 years, 6 months ago
‘I found myself filled with rage, recalling moments when doctors had told me “mind over matter” – a polite way of suggesting “you’re just crazy”.’ New Review critic Vanessa Giron on Have You Tried Yoga?
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Hello there! Thanks for your comment. It’s clear that you feel passionately about this! I want to point out that it’s not an article, but a review. A review is a response to a particular show, as we outline in our editorial policy, which you can find here. And we welcome discussion on Witness Performance.
I can’t speak for Vanessa, but it seems pretty clear in her review that she suffers from an invisible disability that isn’t mental illness, although she refers to mental illness in her opening paragraph. There she was making the link between the well-meaning but potentially dangerous aspects that have been widely discussed about RUOK Day, and the kinds of well-meaning but potentially dangerous interventions that were described in the show. I edited the review, and I don’t recall seeing anywhere that she said that this show was “discouraging conversation” – it seems rather the reverse. I’m a little puzzled by your comment about carers – her problem with the show was that it seemed to make a hurried decision to include carers, when Vanessa thought it was rich enough without it? So she wasn’t asking that disabled people make space for them?