New Poll - To crit or not to crit
Mon, 21 July 2003, 03:37 pmcrgwllms18 posts in thread
New Poll - To crit or not to crit
Mon, 21 July 2003, 03:37 pmI don't know whether this suggestion was prompted by a recent production...?
"You see a show;you have friends in it. You think it was crap. Do you congratulate everyone and publish nothing? Yes/No. "
There are probably other options not catered for in this poll, but which may bear discussion here.
The Poll-tergeist
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"You see a show;you have friends in it. You think it was crap. Do you congratulate everyone and publish nothing? Yes/No. "
There are probably other options not catered for in this poll, but which may bear discussion here.
The Poll-tergeist
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Re: viewing those crit'ers
Thu, 24 July 2003, 12:00 amWalter Plinge
Jason Seperic wrote:
> For the record, I would rather see a "passionately
> constructive damnation" of a production by a critic, who had
> a real 'love' of the artform at the centre of their arguments
> and their value system
I think there are some in the local press who do this. I find Geoff Gibbs to one of the few critics locally who actually pass muster. This is a man with about forty years under his belt as an actor, director, teacher, and administrator, whose love of the art-form and passion for extracting the absolute best in performers is what has made WAAPA the pre-eminent drama school in this country.
The only thing that makes him controversial in these illustrious e-pages is the fact that he can be... shall we say... "blunt" in his assessments. But he's never rude or demeaning, nor does he set out to attack or to humiliate, but rather to offer direct, honest (sometimes brutally so) appraisals of performances and their relative merits.
He neither pisses in pockets, nor excuses shortcomings. If you're bad, he'll tell you... but he doesn't rub your nose in it.
I would there were more like him.
> You know, the more I think about it, the more apparent it
> seems to me that this issue is much more at the heart of the
> apparent 'decline' of things than would appear on the surface.
That and the distinct lack of money available to comprehensively subsidise the local industry.
Not to mention a lack of any real classical back-bone to the repertoire, an almost psychotic obsession with new local work (sometimes with an absolute disregard for issues of quality and merit), and a resolute unwillingness to evolve the community of principal players (actors, directors, artistic directors, etc.).
But I digress.
The Meddoes.
> For the record, I would rather see a "passionately
> constructive damnation" of a production by a critic, who had
> a real 'love' of the artform at the centre of their arguments
> and their value system
I think there are some in the local press who do this. I find Geoff Gibbs to one of the few critics locally who actually pass muster. This is a man with about forty years under his belt as an actor, director, teacher, and administrator, whose love of the art-form and passion for extracting the absolute best in performers is what has made WAAPA the pre-eminent drama school in this country.
The only thing that makes him controversial in these illustrious e-pages is the fact that he can be... shall we say... "blunt" in his assessments. But he's never rude or demeaning, nor does he set out to attack or to humiliate, but rather to offer direct, honest (sometimes brutally so) appraisals of performances and their relative merits.
He neither pisses in pockets, nor excuses shortcomings. If you're bad, he'll tell you... but he doesn't rub your nose in it.
I would there were more like him.
> You know, the more I think about it, the more apparent it
> seems to me that this issue is much more at the heart of the
> apparent 'decline' of things than would appear on the surface.
That and the distinct lack of money available to comprehensively subsidise the local industry.
Not to mention a lack of any real classical back-bone to the repertoire, an almost psychotic obsession with new local work (sometimes with an absolute disregard for issues of quality and merit), and a resolute unwillingness to evolve the community of principal players (actors, directors, artistic directors, etc.).
But I digress.
The Meddoes.
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