Simon Taylor
you were so modular, Fort. St., from the Unisex Architecture series
“Why’d I do it?” A dialogue in broken English on the state of critical discourse in New Zealand as it appeared before the Smythe coterie at Theatreview, or, critical organ flaccid for fluffers in front of cultural grand canyon: “It started with a trickle”
Below, to grow your viewing pleasure and to view my growing displeasure, please find a minimally edited copy of the exchange of comments ensuing from that already posted here in the preceding post. [link] Theatreview provided the venue for this unhappy episode, on the occasion of John Smythe’s review
cultural fluffers & grand canyons, the former ending, the latter starting, with a trickle from the top. John Smythe reports from the front, saying, “It now runs very deep.”
The following is a comment posted in response to John Smythe’s review of Ross Jolly’s production of
Mary Stuart
by Friedrich Schiller at Circa Theatre, Wellington. (Full review here.)
A couple of statements stick out at odd angles from this review so I feel compelled to comment. To