RealTime E-dition 22 August 2018

RealTime E-dition

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RealTime will take performative shape on 21 October. Titled RealTime in real time and part of the just launched 2018 Performance Space Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art program, it’s a five-hour open conversation focusing on a quarter of a century of extraordinary change in the arts — for artists and audiences and not least reviewers. Writers from around Australia will gather with local reviewers, artists, RealTime readers and performers to map out where we’ve been and might be going. In this edition, Ben Brooker and Zsuzsanna Soboslay (along with Chris Reid, Philip Brophy, Virginia Baxter and Katerina Sakkas in recent editions) provide preludes to RealTime in real time. Ben reflects on the works that mattered in his years with RealTime and the negatives that continue to limit bottom-up arts development in South Australia and which are met by artists with resilience and a commitment to nurturance. Zsuzsanna recalls from her decades of writing for RealTime, overseas and around Australia, pivotal experiences that are telling about the complexities of a writer’s responsiveness to art. We hope you’ll join us for RealTime in real time and will tell you more about it in our next edition. Good reading and recollecting! Keith & Virginia

PERFORMANCE IN A PROGRESSION-REGRESSION HELIX
While reflecting on works, companies and festival productions that deeply engaged him when reviewing performance for RealTime in 2011-17, Ben Brooker worries at the disadvantages suffered by the city's small-scale innovators.

THE ART EXPERIENCE:
ITCHING SHAKING CRYING BEING HELD
In the first of two intensely felt, lyrical accounts of works she wrote about for RealTime for over two decades, Zsuzsanna Soboslay tracks her physical and emotional responses with concomitant observations about the writing body and the politics of gender and ability.

THEATRE OF SOAK: ON DRUNKENNESS AS PERFORMANCE
Novelist, essayist and leading creative writing teacher Bernard Cohen in his younger years wrote an occasional series on performance-in-the-everyday (shifting furniture, driving with aggro etc) for RealTime in the 1990s. Here, he drolly delves into a variety of alcohol-induced competencies.

THE LONG FORGOTTEN DREAM: A DREAM-IN-PROGRESS
H Lawrence Sumner’s play about fate and loss of Indigenous culture yields powerful performances from Wayne Blair and Melissa Jaffer, and immersive design and music, but the script’s lumbering exposition, underdeveloped characters and uneven dialogue deny the work greatness.

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RealTime E-ditions are published by Open City an Incorporated Association in New South Wales. Open City Inc is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy [VACS], an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

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