We really don't care about theatre do we?

dance vs. choreography is an important, tho basic, distinction tho, imo

There's also a lot of literary performance going on now that blurs the line between a reading and theater, but has nothing to do with "spoken word" or "poetry slams" -- much closer to what David Sedaris does. Another case where it's kind of exciting that there isn't terminology for it, just that there's an audience who is drawn to it ("Hey, it's like David Sedaris, but it's free and in the back of a bar"). Groups like this one and this one.

Any Londoners gonna see (or have seen) Mishima's Madame De Sade.

saw two nights of stunning quebecois dance from Sylvain Émard Danse

http://www.ladansesurlesroutes.com/res/photo/Wave_2436.jpg

amd Cas Public

http://www.ubishops.ca/centennial/pictures/program/cas-public-1.jpg
http://www.ubishops.ca/centennial/pictures/program/cas-public-2.jpg

both mindlblowing! i LOVE this stuff.

amd, and, whatever!

hey! update my dance performance thread!!

and i can tell you there how jealous i am of you cuz that looks awesome

Dance performance C/D S/D

such a treat. genuinely thought provoking and life affirming!

xpost was that the dildos, snow white etc thread?

sur, it was gorgeous and (the second one) sexy!!! all of the dancers either on point (the women) or in high hells (the men).and the men were like o_O look at that body.

agree on awesome...

meanwhile Madame de Sade is getting bad reviews, however some of the reasons (that it isn't dramatic and the like) still make me want to see it. xp

julio, sorry about not responding to your email of a month+ ago. i couldn't afford the trip in the end.

That's ok jed, not to worry - do let me know if you come round again.

And if I go to Glasgow/Edinburgh to see a dance company/or a play that you've designed I will let you know :-)

:D

julio, ann liv young at the batterea arts centre from the 15th to the 19th of may.

http://www.annlivyoung.com/performancepage.html

its on

"More recently Young has loosened the reins. "Snow White," in particular, has become indelibly deconstructed. "It got to the point where we didn't even do the show," she recalled. "I would say: 'You know, I really don't feel like doing this. How about let's do a question-and-answer session?' And people would get really angry. They felt cheated.""

this is exactly what happened when i saw it. 2/3rds of the way through she goes "ok, this is shit, this isn't working and i can tell you [the audience] are bored. let's do the radio show" cut to all the perfomers clearing the stage to mount the sub-show followed by getting the audience up on stage and trying to get them to strip off. j, i recommend you sink as far down in your seat as you can so she can't pick you out!

i rly don't know what i would do

one guy i see out at these events has become, in my head, 'that guy "peter" that stripped off and danced with ann liv young while she told the sudience to leave the auditorium'.

audience! i'm slightly tipsy.

orgy of tolerance

orgy of tolerance

orgy of lolerance?

i like it!

saw godot with lane/goodman/irwin. irwin was awesome. i hate lane. if i closed my eyes it could have been pumba saying the lines. i hated how they sentimentalized the end. ugh.

another thing: extra general admission ticket available for the philanthropist on saturday (new christopher hampton play starring matthew broderick). anyone want it? the only weird part is i'll be there w/ mom/dadrza lol.

Saw Orgy of Tolerance on Wednesday night. I saw it as a bunch of 'tableaux': really well put together, the final dance off was brilliant -- and one of two LOL moments for me; the other was the 'Come Together' bit.

Wasn't so hot on any underlying ideas, and maybe that's why I wasn't laughing as much and finding it as funny as I thought I could. This constant evasion and pre-emption; the need to not be pegged down...ultimately this got pretty tiresome. I liked the title of this A LOT but the promise, ultimately, was not to be fulfilled.

Glad I went.

i'm glad you went and your thoughts echo mine to some extent but, even though some of the ideas are pretty adolescent and some of the scenes didn't work (specifically the stylist making over J C which was a major misfire) i was carried away by the enthusuasm of the whole thing and it is extremely well crafted in spite of seeming random.

i mean, the shopping trolley waltz and the rifle-up-the-arse were worth the price of admission alone and there were many many more great scenes than that.

having said that it was probably only the 3rd or 4th best thing i have seen this year so far.

on monday i saw one of my (two) favourites things of this year, Ontroerend Goed's "Once And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen". The show is preformed by teenagers and intended for teenagers and adults. i thought it was completely thrilling. a example of just how great devised theatre can be. if you get a chance to see this run, don't walk. i took my 14 year olf neice to see it and she left like this *_*

"i mean, the shopping trolley waltz and the rifle-up-the-arse were worth the price of admission alone and there were many many more great scenes than that."

I can definitely agree that you can't fault it if you go on a pure scene by scene basis, the hit rate is high, and the very first 10 mins did the whole take no prisoners thing well.

I didn't find it all that random because I could see the underlying idea that connected the scenes.

I went to see the newish Enda Walsh play The New Electric Ballroom (guy who wrote dialogue for Hunger, Disco Pigs) incredibly ornate Midlands-Gothic-High-Camp melodrama. It drew on equal parts Pinter, Waters and McCabe, which was a pretty awesome combo imo. Mikel Murfi pretty much redeemed himself for a decades worth of trading in on Galway Arts Festival goodwill. Great playful subversion of William Trevor Ballroom of romance RTE orthodoxy, genuinely unsettling revision of 1960's Ireland, even now more than fifteen years after the Butcher Boy. Obscenely brilliant stage design, A+ would be freaked out again.

ann liv young's "The Bagwell In Me" is truly incredible. i'm kind of speechless. it's hard to describe or explain just why it is so good. it's a huge leap forward from Snow white. quite possibly a work of genius.

going to see 'angela's mixtape' tonight. friend has offered me 'pay what you can' tix - anyone interested in joining?

Cherry Orchard pretty good, Mary Stuart great

philanthropist was mildly entertaining but overall something not worth seeing - there's no substance to it. i was more offended by godot, maybe because they did such a horrible job with a great play. this just wasn't a great play.

i'm not going to get to see the London Godot as I had thought :( i saw an Intiman production as a teenager.

If that was '91 or so, I saw that Intiman production as a 20-year-old.

that was it

angela's mixtape was pretty good! super funny at times, totally touching at others. eisa davis is some kind of superhuman and it's worth going just to watch her.
also, fun mixes on the blog: http://is.gd/r3m5

my mother is making me see a broadway play with the family, but i get to choose what to see. i've really got no interest or knowledge in this (though i used to love going when i was in HS), so what would yall recommend?

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did anyone see west side story?

^this is what my mom wanted to see. i'd be down with it i guess...i did like the movie.

dunno if yall are trolling me w/ little mermaid, but it is pretty appealing. saw beauty and the beast a few years ago and liked

mary poppins is not bad - darker and more fun than the movie, but still geared towards kids.

the little mermaid is supposed to be totally horrible. i will still rep for the lion king.

tony noms here: http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/index.html
but are not necessarily a good indicator of what is actually worth seeing.

i've heard great things about mary stuart. billy elliot is supposedly just like the movie but enjoyable, fwiw. i'm interested in west side story, esp the bit about incorporating more spanish. i wonder what the effect is.

http://famespy.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/rock-of-ages1.jpg

Tony-nominated!

the best show on broadway right now is probably the britishes sex farce about unhappy families/marriages The Norman Conquests, which when seen in full is an all-day affair. this is obv what you should see w/ your mom.

tbh it was pretty fun when i saw it off-broadway! probably better suited to broadway, actually, because it appeals more to tourists/non-trad theater-goers than something with the 'off-broadway' connotation of 'more artsy'. also: scantily clad women and a former american idol contestant. and they let you drink while you watch.

oh wait it's not 'on broadway'. nm.

i still want to see it, but i've already spent money this season on a Steel Panther show (of shame)

"ann liv young's "The Bagwell In Me" is truly incredible. i'm kind of speechless. it's hard to describe or explain just why it is so good. it's a huge leap forward from Snow white. quite possibly a work of genius."

So I went to this last night - just checking, comparing notes before I go any further (and I may need to be drunker than I currently am, even after nearly 24 hours after seeing it -- which is not AT ALL).

Did Ann Liv start her show then stop after five mins, have a RAGING argument with the sound guy (who then left), then demand to see the guy who ran the venue, asking him questions on stuff like MARKETING (getting him to answer with the microphone distorted in a 'chipmunk' sorta mode) and THEN go on to have a discussion with the audience (only 25 of us, she counted 'em) about stuff like what was going to be in the show but that she wouldn't perform, as well as talking about marketing THEN getting onto perform bits of the show (stopping every now and again for a 'soundcheck') but FINALLY getting going, performing what I imagine were scenes from a show we would only ever have in our heads if it were something approaching 'professional', amazingly screaming and hollering through a few of the hits of the pop parade that were distorted to shit on the sound system...totally guerilla-not-giving-a-flying-fuck style before er actually fucking the girl who played George Washington's slave on the show with a strap on (there was a camera guy and a small screen so we all got the angle, I guess we can buy the DVD now).

Did the above (only some of the highlights, but I think I've said enough) also happen in Glasgow?

Anyway: I do care about theatre now :-)