tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38560481.post4531059094127666425..comments2023-04-10T04:17:16.433-04:00Comments on The Transcontinental: The Imperfect WagneriteAndrew W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00071098030747838202noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38560481.post-33726301430522405692007-08-15T10:46:00.000-04:002007-08-15T10:46:00.000-04:00Gawain, correct me is I'm wrong, but your point co...Gawain, correct me is I'm wrong, but your point concerns the dropping of contemporary political issues into a work to make it more "relevant" to us, correct?<BR/><BR/>I couldn't agree more with you. I too get tired of seeing this kind of stuff, mainly because it's lazy. <BR/><BR/>What I was aiming at with the Chereau production of the <I>Ring</I> was that a case can be made that his direction touches on issues already there in work. In some sense, he wasn't updating the work, which was why I mentioned Shaw, who describes a very Chereau-like <I>Ring</I> back in 1898!Andrew W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00071098030747838202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38560481.post-9888998612036114132007-08-14T15:56:00.000-04:002007-08-14T15:56:00.000-04:00It seems as if politicization has been reduced to ...It seems as if politicization has been reduced to cheap gags. Put in something controversial, who cares if it makes sense! <BR/><BR/>Indeed, if the recent Transformers movie can take a cheap shot at George Bush, then political context is rendered meaningless, it would seem...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38560481.post-50937691907529635462007-08-14T10:33:00.000-04:002007-08-14T10:33:00.000-04:00all very true.however -- i realize it is changing ...all very true.<BR/><BR/>however -- i realize it is changing the topic a little -- i can't help feeling that politics may weigh in on our art a bit too much these days: it is literally becoming difficult to find a play -- or an opera production -- which isn't political (several times i tried when in NYC on a weekend; in time i stopped trying); all of them being political in precisely the same way, making the same points about the same issues (sex and gender liberation, racism, child abuse, gays in the military, more sex and gender liberation, more racism...); to me it just seems dull -- i have heard it already; i have already been house-trained on all the issues (and sympathize with them all); i would like now a rest from politics -- from time to time; and a little discussion of other things which are equally important; surely, there is something else to life other than -- politics? have we forgotten it? <BR/><BR/>*<BR/><BR/>and about your previous post: lucky you to have good lunchtime conversations. i could use a few. :)Sir Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953581535133000686noreply@blogger.com