Posts by Craig Ranapia
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And it was a joke - my ambiguity towards the other Holy Trinity is well on the record (and I agree with Sasha doesn't need to be rehashed) and I'm already suffering from Hobbit hype fatigue. :) But yeah, my cultural curmudgeon takes a personal day when our performers take it to the world.
Does it really have to be a zero-sum game, anyway? I'd suggest not - as I said, the whole point of the Globe to Globe festival is that the most English of dramatists crosses borders of language and culture with the greatest of ease. Hell, Shakespeare himself was a giant multi-cultural mixing desk who took classical myth, history and his own imagination and turned it into something rich and strange.
Toroihi raua ko Kahira is just one more link in the chain, and I'm going to be seriously fucked off if come Bardsday they're not present, accounted for and ready to burn down the house. Well, The Globe anyway. :)
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Hard News: A fiction of unalloyed darkness, in reply to 3410,
I don't get this. Why would anyone expect a theatre piece to be literally true?
When it's being presented as a "memoir" or a "documentary play" (or even that delightfully fuzzy genre the 'biopic'), I think that expectation is real and not unreasonable.
Here's now This American Life is described on it's own website:
The radio show and TV show follow the same format. There’s a theme to each episode, and a variety of stories on that theme. It’s mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always.
Call me an old fogey, if you must, but when you're billing yourself as mostly truth, but part fiction keeping that distinction clear is a non-trivial thing to do.
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Hard News: A fiction of unalloyed darkness, in reply to Russell Brown,
The fact of Daisey's confession doesn't seem to be an impediment to their beliefs.
And I'm pretty fucking sick of seeing TAL host/producer Ira Glass being patted on the back for his "integrity" in promptly retracting a story on his show whose fabrications were pretty brutally - and comprehensively - fisked. As my Nana used to say: It's all very nice saying sorry, but even better to have nothing to apologize for in the first place.
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Hard News: A fiction of unalloyed darkness, in reply to bronwyn,
One interesting part (for me, anyway) of this story has been the lily-livered assertion by Mike Daisey that what he did was OK because it was "theatre".
WSJ drama critic and arts blogger Terry Teachout has a proposed first commandment for performance artists that's worth quoting in full:
If you go on a stage and say that you personally saw something, and the show in which you make this claim is not clearly identified in some meaningful way as "fiction" or "fictionalized," [Emphasis mine] then you'd better have seen it--especially if you tell your audiences that they need to take action based on what you claim to have seen.
Hard to disagree with any of that.
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Memo to self: Never make a joke at your own expense. :)
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Speaking of, did you ever get anything useful from the OIA requests?
"Useful", no - not in the sense of 'material strong enough to justify doing the Ubangi stomp on the Council's arse, Public Address style". (Am I getting temperate and responsible in my old age?) Interesting reading though. :)
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Emma Hart,
DELETED - Just realized the quote from Greer may be extremely triggering not only to trans-gendered readers but rape survivors. Apologies for being thoughtless.
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Hilary Stace,
There was an accusation from the audience of transphobia. Don't know the details of the case but something about an academic appointment.
So, in 1996 Greer didn't oppose the election of trans physicist Rachael Padman as a fellow of Newnham College?
Padman herself has a slightly different recollection.
And to be honest, Hilary, I don't even want to cut and paste from the chapter on 'Pantomime Dames' in The Whole Woman. It's ugly stuff and a disturbing proportion of it sounds like some meta-parody of Garth George.
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BTW, Sandra Coney still has an open invitation to discuss her role in the Odd Future/BDO canning. Thanks for being open, accountable and engaging with the community Councillor.
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