Reviews of Temporo (an ARENA production)
Mon, 12 Apr 2004, 02:46 pmAndrew Shugg16 posts in thread
Reviews of Temporo (an ARENA production)
Mon, 12 Apr 2004, 02:46 pmHi all,
Firstly I'm not the reviewer, just the message bearer ...
A review of ARENA's "Temporo" was posted(1) by Touchstone over in the Billboard Bulletins forum. Rather than copy & paste the whole thing here, I thought it'd be better for you to go and look in the Billboard forum. =)
Another review was put up(2) on the IndiePerth website, which was somewhat less glowing. They also shredded Blak Yak's "Red Dwarf II: Kryten" so our (sincere) consolations go to them as well as to ourselves!
And in blatant self-promotion of our website, an easy way to get to all of these reviews is to visit www.arenaentertainment.com.au and click on the "Reviews & Testimonials" page.
Cheers,
Andrew S
(for Arena Arts & Entertainment)
(1) http://theatre.asn.au/read.php?f=18&i=3628&t=3626
(2) http://www.indielondon.co.uk/perth/theatre/temporo_rev.html
Firstly I'm not the reviewer, just the message bearer ...
A review of ARENA's "Temporo" was posted(1) by Touchstone over in the Billboard Bulletins forum. Rather than copy & paste the whole thing here, I thought it'd be better for you to go and look in the Billboard forum. =)
Another review was put up(2) on the IndiePerth website, which was somewhat less glowing. They also shredded Blak Yak's "Red Dwarf II: Kryten" so our (sincere) consolations go to them as well as to ourselves!
And in blatant self-promotion of our website, an easy way to get to all of these reviews is to visit www.arenaentertainment.com.au and click on the "Reviews & Testimonials" page.
Cheers,
Andrew S
(for Arena Arts & Entertainment)
(1) http://theatre.asn.au/read.php?f=18&i=3628&t=3626
(2) http://www.indielondon.co.uk/perth/theatre/temporo_rev.html
Re: Reviews of Temporo (an ARENA production)
Thu, 15 Apr 2004, 11:06 amthor wrote:
> looks like this 'indieperth' site is offering fairly honest
> reviews, rather than the usual brown-nosing you see on this
> site. i will keep an eye on it, as long as they dont get too
> carried away with themselves.
Of course! But I don't think it's really fair for a reviewer to fail to acknowledge that community theatre really _is_ run with a very small budget, using actors with little or no professional stage experience, props that can't be smashed up too vigorously because they can't be replaced and need to last for the whole production run, and all that sort of thing ...
Then again, "Temporo" was compared to an episode of Scooby Doo, and how on earth can that be a bad thing? =)
We also understand that the reviewer did not stay for the second half, either due to a lack of interest in the play (in which case, how can it be reviewed professionally?) or due to not understanding what an intermission was. So with that in mind, and no credit given for being an amateur rather than a professional one, I would have to disagree about this "fairly honest review" ...
So, come and see "Temporo", and then please write your own review for this site. The season's still running!
http://www.arenaentertainment.com.au/temporo.html
Andrew S.
> looks like this 'indieperth' site is offering fairly honest
> reviews, rather than the usual brown-nosing you see on this
> site. i will keep an eye on it, as long as they dont get too
> carried away with themselves.
Of course! But I don't think it's really fair for a reviewer to fail to acknowledge that community theatre really _is_ run with a very small budget, using actors with little or no professional stage experience, props that can't be smashed up too vigorously because they can't be replaced and need to last for the whole production run, and all that sort of thing ...
Then again, "Temporo" was compared to an episode of Scooby Doo, and how on earth can that be a bad thing? =)
We also understand that the reviewer did not stay for the second half, either due to a lack of interest in the play (in which case, how can it be reviewed professionally?) or due to not understanding what an intermission was. So with that in mind, and no credit given for being an amateur rather than a professional one, I would have to disagree about this "fairly honest review" ...
So, come and see "Temporo", and then please write your own review for this site. The season's still running!
http://www.arenaentertainment.com.au/temporo.html
Andrew S.
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