tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57298487237306457022024-03-05T20:27:21.293+00:00Taxi for Weirdy PapooseMostly thoughts on stuff I see. Mostly.weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-78621023073423036502011-11-13T15:01:00.001+00:002011-11-13T15:12:01.182+00:00Category errorGenerally I don't go to the theatre to be made a point at. This review of Forced Entertainment's Void Story gives a pretty objective account of what happens in the performance, but the reviewer criticises the show on the basis that the story has no point, and on top of that, the review claims that Void Story also misses the point of both the medium of graphic novel and the medium of live weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-71056611633566749922011-04-08T16:33:00.006+01:002011-04-08T16:37:45.977+01:00Things I've seen in between: August 2010 - March 2011
image: Still Standing You
Hello blog!
Been a long time. Many half-written posts wasting away in the ether. Tumbleweed.
In amongst the shooting of films, editing of scripts, making of performances and the Work, Work, Work (2010 was something of a killer); I have seen some things:
- Tom Marshman: Move Over Darling
- Dancing Brick: Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice [work-in-progress]
- Aeon weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-53625008597506334312010-09-19T17:31:00.001+01:002010-09-19T17:33:03.809+01:00Edinburgh 2010 diary - memories / cry thoughts / theatre
image: Operation Greenfield
Last year, I went to Edinburgh Fringe Festival again after a break of five years or so. I was there for my birthday, which in accordance with cosmic law, must always ends in proper crying. In 2009 it was silent unstoppable weeping at the poetic, unflinching horrors spoken to us in Palace of the End; followed by I-can't-actually-breathe-now actual crying with weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-42720092696613799222010-08-21T18:15:00.015+01:002010-09-25T13:54:02.134+01:00Things I've seen in between: May - July 2010
image: Food Court
Funnily, it feels like I've not seen as much this year as I saw last year. Not sure if that's true. Not sure if it matters. I made it up to Edinburgh for a fleeting few days this year and am hoping to blog something about those shows shortly. In the meantime, here's the inbetween list, including some rich Mayfest pickings:
- Full Beam Visual Theatre: The Lesser Spotted weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-88743891897797525092010-05-24T22:10:00.012+01:002010-09-25T13:54:27.871+01:00Four Lions
I went to see Four Lions yesterday. For a number of reasons:
Saying you love going to the cinema, but then mainly staying at home as if you secretly prefer to wait for everything to come out on DVD is not cool. And I do love going to the cinema.
The last film I saw at the cinema was Mic-Macs, and that was rubbish. Not even "bad in a good way".
I've yet to be disappointed by anything weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-81768539522866811452010-04-30T13:18:00.009+01:002010-06-11T16:50:48.061+01:00Things I've seen inbetween (January - May 2010)image: and the line goes dead...
Funny how 2010 sounds much more sci-fi than 2009.
Anyway, thought I'd list up before Mayfest hits. Already this year, there's been a couple of fests or festy type seasons showing all kinds of work in development, rehearsed readings or just concentrated goddamn art experiences, so best get the diary out.
- Travelling Light & Champloo: How Coldweirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-87459134630374794692010-03-17T15:55:00.018+00:002010-06-11T15:50:56.150+01:00Juliet and Her RomeoTuesday 16 March 2010, Bristol Old Vic
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but set in a care home, where Romeo and Juliet are amongst the elderly residents. The conceit is that Juliet's daughter wants to marry her mother off to rich ole Paris so that she doesn't have to cover the spiralling costs of residential care. It's a compelling spin for a 2010 retelling.
But there's not a lot of other muckingweirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-64853205492638036822010-03-13T11:52:00.009+00:002010-09-25T13:57:56.753+01:00Writers on writing - plus Graham Linehan is JUST FUNNYI don't think real writers like giving rules for writing. Only "screenwriting gurus" and people who think they're writers like going on about rules for writing. I don't know who this man is, but he looks like he might be prologue-ing for some rules.
I just the watched Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe Screenwriting Special again. It's ace. And anyone who's interested in scriptwriting should watch it.weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-7017490253120732842010-01-09T12:51:00.014+00:002010-06-11T15:52:13.996+01:00How do you like your criticism, pet?
Wotcha! I wonder if I'll get anywhere near to regular blogging this year?
Anyway, dreaming aside, at the end of last year, I applied to be one of the new Arts Council Artistic Assessors. For the last 8 years, and particularly in the job I've had for the last 4 years, seeing live art and theatre work, critiquing it with colleagues and feeding back honestly yet sensitively to artists has been a weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-30298653222207862372009-12-20T16:59:00.028+00:002010-06-11T15:59:36.239+01:00Things I've seen... yadda yadda yadda (July - December 2009)
image: palace of the end
For the record, this list contains one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life, and which I'm happy to evangelise for without reservation. If you get the chance to see this production of Palace of The End, see it. An unbendingly humane and utterly devastating treatise on the war in Iraq.
Here's the rest of the list:
-Adam Peck/FairGround Theatre: Out of weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-28580757812708807552009-07-05T12:39:00.013+01:002010-06-11T16:51:02.379+01:00Are Terminator Salvation and Public Enemies the same film?
Four reasons why Terminator Salvation and Public Enemies are the same film:
Christian Bale
Being a woman holds very little sway
Sense of humour bypass
Much dependence on the right to bear arms
One reason why Terminator Salvation and Public Enemies are not the same film:
TS: Christian Bale doesn't smile / PE: Christian Bale smiles once
weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-33813234517470302272009-07-02T12:08:00.018+01:002010-06-11T16:04:28.860+01:00Things I've Seen Inbetween (Sept 08 - June 09)image: Ontroerend Goed - Once and For All We're Going to Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen
As usual, I've barely written about any of the shows I've seen over the last few months, what with being too busy an' all (aka watching The Wire) so here's m'regular catch up list for, y'know, posterity:
- Prototype Sept 08 Platform
- Clare Thornton - Pleats and Folds (open studio)
- Dartington weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-62333992897178578312009-05-25T20:10:00.015+01:002010-09-25T13:56:23.133+01:00Star Trek: a franchise beginneth againeth
N.B. In a high concept movie FRENZY, I happen to be writing this AND trying to watch Snakes on a Plane simultaneously. It must be all that crazy-jazz pic-n-mix sugar and chemicals I had at the cinema this morning. CHECK IT!
Firstly - context: as much as I am a major sci-fi fan, I have never been able to get through an episode of Star Trek without a) switching channels half-way weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-83633655220154271152009-03-12T12:39:00.010+00:002010-06-11T16:05:08.287+01:00Catherine Johnson: SuspensionTuesday 10 March, Bristol Old Vic
At a time when all theatre-y eyes are on it, I thought it would be worthwhile checking out what Bristol Old Vic is 'flagshipping' at the moment. One of BOV's current big co-productions is Kneehigh's Don John; but given that I'm still angry from the last time I saw a Kneehigh show, I thought I'd go for Catherine Johnson's new play instead.
I wasn't expecting it weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-48004616343122718262009-03-08T12:42:00.001+00:002010-06-11T16:06:05.768+01:00Forced Entertainment: SpectacularFriday 6 March, Arnolfini
This is a brilliant show - laugh-out-loud funny, disconcerting, and weirdly moving. Beautifully written and exquisitely performed. As the Venue Magazine review says of the show:
"Forced Entertainment continue to ask a lot of their audiences, giving what amounts to a smattering of clues towards a performance; and if you're willing to suspend your disbelief in new and weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-74599459640206051482009-02-21T16:03:00.017+00:002010-06-11T16:06:41.072+01:00Action Hero: Watch Me FallArnolfini, Friday 20 February 2009
"I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80mph." [Evel Knievel]
"I just wanna live for another 20-25 years. A couple things I always wanted to do; one was to drive at Indianapolis... The other thing I wanted to do was jump out of an airplaneweirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-92109361160262596212009-01-24T18:59:00.007+00:002010-06-11T16:09:47.729+01:00Pictures of youWhilst I was seeking out pictures to liven up my blog, I did the obvious and google-imaged my name. You don't get much when you try my full name - mainly links to projects I've been part of, plus my facebook pic - but (unsurprisingly) my first name brings up a bunch of images of the Hindi Film Star I was named after:
I really like this slightly hilarious profile of her:
"One wonders if she weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-14637042552010024962009-01-24T16:51:00.004+00:002009-02-21T16:03:41.352+00:00Pimp my blogHello you! whoever you are- (probably me)I was talking to Tom Marshman the other day, and he mentioned he'd been checking out Tim Atack's website."Good pics," he said.Hmmm, I thought. Best pimp my blog.So I've just spent the most extraordinary amount of time finding and splicing a selection of 'lovely pictures' into various bits of this blog. I'm particularly fond of the image I found for CSI in weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-50491626218963157502008-11-23T14:36:00.022+00:002010-09-25T13:58:28.747+01:00Oh My God! I think I've opened the BROWN door...Here's an article I wrote for the Theatre Bristol website. It's a personal perspective on something that's been nagging at me for ages. Thanks to theatrebristol.net for suggesting I spend the time articulating it.
---Last week I went to a meeting led by Sustained Theatre, ostensibly to discuss setting up 'regional hubs' for practitioners from "The Sector".
You get what I mean by "The Sector", weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-43005500505388711642008-11-07T10:27:00.009+00:002009-01-24T16:24:15.270+00:00President ObamaThis result has to be noted. I mean, check out the size of this crowd!Even for those weeks on end, when the polls and the pundits were saying it was a dead cert, I just couldn't bring myself to take it for granted that America would elect a black president.I'm still thrilled by it. It does genuinely feel like something has changed in the world. A massive border has shifted. Aspirations are now weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-32895397666987014162008-11-06T19:18:00.013+00:002010-06-11T16:18:12.497+01:00Producer thoughtsSo, as I've been mentioning, I got to get official as a film producer earlier this year, working with a professional cast and crew, and even a little budget. All my dreams on VHS is now complete, and the DVDs are being burned. I can't wait for people to see it. I really want to know what people think - both those that were involved, and people who know nothing about it. It sure is a handsome filmweirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-22528454703619716482008-10-18T19:24:00.008+01:002009-01-24T12:08:21.089+00:00VilniusA little while back, when the boyf and I realised we weren't going to be able to afford to go on REAL holiday for a couple of years, we decided we'd buy a couple of guide books instead. And pretend, imagine, or (most optimistically) look forward to visiting those places instead.We ended up getting Rough Guides to Scandinavia and The Baltic States. I've always been fascinated by that direction. weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-72159751306899683862008-09-01T13:08:00.009+01:002008-11-08T11:26:25.481+00:00Things I've Seen In Between (April - August 08)Jeeeez - was I really intending to write about every performance I see? Here's the latest list of theatre/live art I haven't blogged about:Tom Marshman - The InvitationPacitti Company - CivilTim Atack - AstronautBodies In Flight - Model Love (durational)Tim Crouch/News from Nowhere - EnglandTom Marshman & Friends - Hello Sailor (Goodbye Heart)Mem Morrison - LeftoversRosie Dennis - Love Song weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-13867580708391787402008-08-27T15:07:00.009+01:002009-01-24T16:47:31.207+00:00All My Dreams on VHSSo, we're right into editing All My Dreams on VHS. I got to check out the rushes over the bank holiday weekend and will get to see the first rough assembly this evening (yikes!). It's all a bit bloody exciting.It's written and directed by Tim Atack, stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw and O-T Fagbenle, and is produced by George Chan for the BBC Film Lab. For my part, as well as my usual script-editing duties,weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5729848723730645702.post-35776465621183644842008-08-19T19:55:00.006+01:002008-11-08T11:23:26.757+00:00Feed my blog!I haven't blogged in AGES.Yes, I've been busy... but you know... I've also watched a lot of TV, so no excuses really.And then I got BLOG FEAR, the official term for which, I believe is "blogstipation".I'm hoping to relieve my symptoms by going on a course of 'get-boyfriend-to-give-me random-blog-titles' pills. Let's see what happens. Given that summer seems to have taken the year off this year, weirdy papoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162409794780643472noreply@blogger.com0