Andrew Upton of Sydney Theatre Co. : “The hardest audience burden of all to tolerate is sitting back and waiting to be fed. This sort of blobby ‘tell me a story while I chew my cud’ has left me wondering if seats should be removed from theatres altogether. … Sit up and engage. It’s not feeding time; it’s haranguing, coaxing, wooing time.”
Tag: 12.03.12
Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts To Add Pavilion For New Collection
“The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has announced it will construct a new building to house Michal and Renata Hornstein’s recent donation of Old Masters paintings valued at $75 million – the largest private art donation in Quebec’s history.”
How Is Matthew Bourne Changing Sleeping Beauty?
For starters: the baby Princess Aurora is a puppet (three different ones, in fact, including one they call “the Exorcist puppet”); the three fairies are named Tantrum, Ardour and Feral; the Lilac Fairy is male (what’s a Matthew Bourne ballet without gender changes?); and Beauty goes to sleep in the Edwardian era and wakes up after 100 years – in the present day.
Slut-Shaming Just Won’t Die (And It Still Inhibits Women)
“For women, engaging in casual sex still carries a stigma, and the prospect of being judged dampens their interest in one-night stands.” A new study “concludes that, more than a half-century after the introduction of the birth control pill, the sexual double standard is alive and well and still influencing women’s everyday behavior.”
Broken Orchestra Model Hobbles Minnesota Orchestras
“Both sides in the current disputes buzz about an outdated orchestra business model. “
‘Illustrated Journalism’ For The iPad Age
“Launched with $34,000 in grants, Symbolia: The Tablet Magazine of Illustrated Journalism, a digital journal designed for the iPad that specializes in comics and illustrated nonfiction reports, debuts today in the app store.”
Is Cirque Du Soleil Losing Its Touch?
Iris, the company’s Los Angeles show which is closing in January, “isn’t the company’s only high-profile bust. The show joins a list of flops that have tarnished the global Cirque brand in recent years” – including Viva Elvis in Las Vegas, Zaia in Macao (which had been planned, like Iris, for a ten-year run), Zed in Tokyo and the touring show Banana Shpeel.
Social Scientists Look At Giftgiving
“To be a really successful giver of gifts, a person usually needs to get inside the head of the intended recipient. Unfortunately, psychological studies reveal that givers and receivers have a hard time understanding each other’s mind-sets, which can make for a tricky holiday experience.” (The good news: re-gifting is okay.)
Conservative? Revolutionary? What Does That Mean?
“Even so-called post-modernism feels old-fashioned at this point. However, if the aesthetic directive of post-post-modernism, for lack of a better moniker, is that you can do whatever you want, terms like progressive and conservative ultimately no longer have any meaning.”
Google Lobbies Hard Over German Proposal To Impose Copyright Protections For News Snippets
According to Google, the law would “make it significantly more difficult to find the information you are searching for on the Internet.”