This and That
Sun, 21 Feb 1999, 01:34 amWalter Plinge3 posts in thread
This and That
Sun, 21 Feb 1999, 01:34 amHi there,Just about to do March Link and thought I would check in first. We get all messages sent to our email address and it took forever to download. You've all been very busy little beavers, haven't you! I would have to double the size of the Link this month were I to put it all in. Congratulations, Kimberley, what a great way to excite a response - and what a passionate one! Now that we've got everybody talking,let's keep it up. We could do with some new blood - or is that that expression too near the bone.Grant, you're a marvel! The new site is great and I can see why you couldn't have had much time to answer my queries, or is it what I said about "As You Like It"? In case I don't get a chance later - congratulations on the site's first birthday. It certainly has been an exciting inception.One of the reasons for sending this message, (extraordinary coincidence reading Eliot's last missive), was to congratulate KADS and everyone involved on the delightful evening we had last night seeing "Jigsaws". It was the first time we, i.e. my sister, Marie, and I, had been to KADS theatre. (I hate driving at night). What a lovely welcoming group they are. You were made to feel you belonged right away. But the evening just kept getting better. It was the most pleasant theatrical experience I've had in a long time. The play was a delight, about the relationships of five women in 3 generations of a family - insightful, funny and moving. The director, Ann Farrell, did everything right, from the casting to the crew, set and costumes were perfect. And the cast - how wonderful to get so much talent in one play, each one was so obviously right in the character. Congratulations to Elaine Carter, Nadia Nassif, Kimberley Shaw, Susan Welbourne and Susan Giri. Thankyou all for a wonderful evening.I was speaking to someone about the show earlier this evening and he told me that he'd heard not so fulsome praise from a couple of men who thought the play boring, dealing as it does with women's issues. David, who saw the play with me, thoroughly enjoyed it. I ask myself is it because he's a theatre person and can appreciate a work of skill, or because he's sensitive to and interested in communication problems, be they male or female. I must admit I was surprised to hear someone say it was a 'woman's play'. (Is there such a thing as a man's play?) And does that make the man who believes this superior or inferior? Rhetorical question, of course. Any man willing to give his views?Keep the site alive.Liz
Walter PlingeSun, 21 Feb 1999, 01:34 am
Hi there,Just about to do March Link and thought I would check in first. We get all messages sent to our email address and it took forever to download. You've all been very busy little beavers, haven't you! I would have to double the size of the Link this month were I to put it all in. Congratulations, Kimberley, what a great way to excite a response - and what a passionate one! Now that we've got everybody talking,let's keep it up. We could do with some new blood - or is that that expression too near the bone.Grant, you're a marvel! The new site is great and I can see why you couldn't have had much time to answer my queries, or is it what I said about "As You Like It"? In case I don't get a chance later - congratulations on the site's first birthday. It certainly has been an exciting inception.One of the reasons for sending this message, (extraordinary coincidence reading Eliot's last missive), was to congratulate KADS and everyone involved on the delightful evening we had last night seeing "Jigsaws". It was the first time we, i.e. my sister, Marie, and I, had been to KADS theatre. (I hate driving at night). What a lovely welcoming group they are. You were made to feel you belonged right away. But the evening just kept getting better. It was the most pleasant theatrical experience I've had in a long time. The play was a delight, about the relationships of five women in 3 generations of a family - insightful, funny and moving. The director, Ann Farrell, did everything right, from the casting to the crew, set and costumes were perfect. And the cast - how wonderful to get so much talent in one play, each one was so obviously right in the character. Congratulations to Elaine Carter, Nadia Nassif, Kimberley Shaw, Susan Welbourne and Susan Giri. Thankyou all for a wonderful evening.I was speaking to someone about the show earlier this evening and he told me that he'd heard not so fulsome praise from a couple of men who thought the play boring, dealing as it does with women's issues. David, who saw the play with me, thoroughly enjoyed it. I ask myself is it because he's a theatre person and can appreciate a work of skill, or because he's sensitive to and interested in communication problems, be they male or female. I must admit I was surprised to hear someone say it was a 'woman's play'. (Is there such a thing as a man's play?) And does that make the man who believes this superior or inferior? Rhetorical question, of course. Any man willing to give his views?Keep the site alive.Liz
LabrugMon, 22 Feb 1999, 09:10 am
Re: This and That
EMAILNOTICES>no> problems, be they male or female. I must admit I was surprised to> hear someone say it was a 'woman's play'. (Is there such a thing as> a man's play?)I've also heard the term "Women's Logic" and there is a generalopinion that there is a difference in the way stereotypical men andwomen think. One 'expert' once said that supermarkets of aboutfive to ten years ago were designed for the female shopper, that'sthe zig-zag format. It was found that men tended to get lost in suchplaces trying to go straight to what they were after while women wouldgo through each lane checking everything.Nowdays, the line is very blurred and some of my friends have switchedto calling it Feminine and Masculine Logic.Simply put, yes there can be such a think as a Man's film and a ChickFlick and equally applied to plays as well, as long as you have in mindthe older ideas of "Man" and "Woman".> And does that make the man who believes this superior> or inferior? Rhetorical question, of course. Any man willing to give> his views?In terms of it being superior or inferior, I have often asked a similarquestion of my friends. Depending on the type of person you ask,it could be either. Personally, I think it's neither, it just makes fora well rounded personallity.From someone labled as having "Women's Logic."Jeff.
Walter PlingeMon, 22 Feb 1999, 03:55 pm
How's the weather?
JeffreyYou have the gift of Womens logic eh? hehe. How the devil are you and what is the weather like (assuming you are still in Blighty old boy?).Do you have stars in your eyes yet or just in your dressing room?We miss you Jeff, well who elso can we theoretically pelt with rotton eggs and tomatoes!!Only kidding, hope everything is going well for you. have you appeared in anything yet or is it still early days? I am about to audition for Wild Bill Hickock in Calamity Jane - I'll give it my best shot.Drop us a line on:mounties@vianet.net.au