MAN ABOUT TOWN

The blog of a 44 year-old gay man living in Melbourne, Australia: a writer, broadcaster, arts worker, arts lover, and Collingwood supporter. Should contain moments of angst about being single, reviews of various arts events, and sporadic humour.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

More Fringe, the start of MIAF

Just a quick note to say that I will be trying to catch up with some micro-reviews of the remaining shows I saw at the Melbourne Fringe Festival over the weekend (I saw 32 shows in all this year, so have been struggling to find the time to write about them) as well as the first couple of MIAF shows I've seen, the Abbey Theatre's gorgeously grotesque Terminus and the Hofesh Schecter Company's dance works Uprising and In Your Rooms, both of which I very much enjoyed.

So far so good for MIAF, in fact, though I was interested to see Peter Greenaway's take on The Last Supper, and his claims about visual literacy, roundly criticised by Robert Nelson in today''s Age. I suspect Greenaway might have a bit to say about that tonight at the Q+A after the screening of his film J'Accuse!

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5 Comments:

At 15/10/09 12:43, Blogger The Comedian Talks said...

Hey Richard,
I looked up reviews of my show and your blog came up. Did you get a chance to come to our show, the Metrosketchuals?

 
At 15/10/09 13:30, Blogger richardwatts said...

Sorry man no, I didn't get the chance to get along to that one. Are you doing a remount at any stage?

 
At 15/10/09 20:30, Anonymous conrad said...

Thanks for the recommendation on the Hofesh Schecter company. I saw them too and thought they were great (and the music great too).

 
At 27/10/09 22:33, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Metrosketchuals will be coming to a Melbourne International Comedy Festival near you...

 
At 28/10/09 07:36, Blogger richardwatts said...

Excellent news, thanks Anon!

 

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