Having just moved Miching Malicho over here to Between the Acts, I have been a little bit more interested in what other Theatre/Culture blogs look like this week. In reading through some blogs I came across Cultural Tales of Two Cities. I really like the way that the blog focuses on the two cities of Manchester and London, though there is a review of the RSC Twelfth Night there so clearly towns and cities between Manchester and London count. There was a very interesting comment on the casting of Richard Wilson as Malvolio in the RSC’s Twelfth Night on the blog this week. The blog notes that this production was
A play of two halves really for the RSC’s latest Stratford offering. This production of ‘Twelfth Night’ was apparently delayed until Richard Wilson was available to play Malvolio. I am just not sure that someone who is so known for one character can credibly play another. At times it felt like the audience was waiting for him to announce ‘I don’t believe it’… (Cultural Tales of Two Cities accessed 8th November 2009)
I always think that Peter Kirwin’s Bardathon is so informative, and this week he was writing about the RSC’s Days of Significance and commenting on its relationship to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. I was interested to see that Blogging By Numbers was writing about Mother Courage and Their Children last week with a big But:
But – and this is one of those huge, clunking buts – I was never less than engaged. I loved the invention. I loved the humour. I loved the money I could see had been spent. I loved, loved Fiona Shaw as a Mother Courage that you were at once compelled and repulsed by. (Blogging By Number accessed 8th November 2009)
This still makes me feel I should have gone to see the whole thing after all after having the just the first half experience.
I’m writing about blogging at the moment, as well as blogging about blogging, which feels a little indulgent. I am interested in the idea that Web 2.0 opens up the web for the audience to produce and to inform what is being written and produced. The myriad of opinion out there is often engaging and interesting and we have the choice to read or not.
As blogs appear and we all get a say, one blog that seems to have gone is Patricia 1957 Arts Diary. I really enjoyed reading the posts on Patricia 1957 Arts Diary , but it looks like this has been deleted which is a shame. My move from Miching Malicho to Between the Acts is about changing virtual personas. However, the disappearance of Patricia1957ArtsDiary shows that on the blogosphere we can have a voice and silence our own voices just as quickly.
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