August 2012
2 posts
May 2012
1 post
“…if we believe in liberty, if we want the air we breathe to remain plentiful and breathable, this is the art whose right to exist we must not only defend, but celebrate. Art is not entertainment. At its very best, it’s a revolution.”
—Salman Rushdie on censorship, at our new literary blog, Page-Turner (via newyorker)
March 2012
9 posts
Opinionator: Freud’s Radical Talking (from NYtimes) →
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
“Freud hypothesized that the best way to refashion our world for the better is to adopt a new way of speaking to one another. Above all, this radical way of talking is defined by what appears to be extended pointlessness, something we are increasingly incapable of tolerating as the world around us moves ever faster. There are books to read, mouths to feed, meetings to attend, corporations to fight or defend, new places to visit, starving children to save…who has the time? And yet it is precisely in not allowing ourselves the time to be “unproductive” that reality is insured to remain rigid and unchanging.”
February 2012
7 posts
Should theatre be fearless, not flawless? →
guardian.co.uk
This was written by my Dramatic Criticism teacher, Lyn Gardner.
