Saturday, February 18, 2006

Theatre is changing (a manifesto)

Okay, I'm sorted (I think those chips helped - thanks, Col) . Sorry about my little sojorn away from bloggerdom, I think it was simply a need for fresh air after the intellectuous rigours of witnessing BLACKPUDDING* a week ago. In the intervening "jours" (a french word meaning, litrally, 'days': hence journal, journey, joury duty, jourst one cornetto, etc etc) I have had time to inwardly cogitate (I don't recommend this if you've been drinking heavily, by the way), and now I have come up with my All New All Fab Shaun Spock Theatre Green Room Manifesto des Arts Practicquel et Magnifique(s)TM

1) Art is a three letter word for a reason
2) Never compromise your Art
3) Theatre is Life
4) Life is Art
5) The artistic imperative is, at once, self-reflective but never narcissississitic**
6) Could I have extra salsa on that***

















And so, in conclusion, I offer you this, by way of a summation:

Be rigorous. Be true. Be artistic.

BUT ABOVE ALL

Be-have.







*thankyou to eagle-eyed blogfan Finty Germaine for pointing out my mistaken use of the 'gap' in the title
** check speling here+
+delete this footnote
***definitely delete this - it is extremely irrelevant and will only irritate my loyal fans

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