tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651145764236805587.post3856444984932032167..comments2024-03-06T08:27:42.713+00:00Comments on Deliq.: scratching at the surface of ontroerend goedmaddy costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04929576408540749708noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651145764236805587.post-10605142201745938972011-12-15T17:37:51.497+00:002011-12-15T17:37:51.497+00:00Lovely, searching piece, Maddie. And name me anoth...Lovely, searching piece, Maddie. And name me another company that would make you go home and write an extra 3000 words above what you'd been commissioned. <br /><br />It reminds me of the friend who saw Internal with four other men, all of them strangers. None of them liked the show, but all of them went and had a drink together to discuss it. <br /><br />Have you ever heard of a show that could have that effect on five people who didn't even know each other? <br /><br />Having seen nearly everything they've done since I stumbled across Smile Off Your Face by chance on the Edinburgh Fringe, I find the effect they have on audiences (those who like the shows and those who don't) to be fascinating.Mark Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14877407195452350555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651145764236805587.post-78764119608974407542011-12-11T23:41:07.925+00:002011-12-11T23:41:07.925+00:00Ooh, I've just read your review and really, re...Ooh, I've just read your review and really, really wish I'd been there to see you in action. I've no idea how I would have felt about Audience if I'd first seen it on a quiet night when no one said anything, or if the girl had been visibly upset, or if or if or if... Other context for my Edinburgh viewing is that the night before I saw One Man Show, and most of what that said about the experience of watching people on stage/being an audience, Audience cracked through in the first 10 or 15 minutes. Re manipulations, there was one more absorbing Devriendt quote that I snippeted from in the G2 piece and meant to go back to above but forgot: "People here sometimes say: 'You have all the power over me.' I'm like: no, you have power too. The strangest thing is, I don't want to make people feel stupid, but sometimes when people are angry and they're like, 'You're manipulating me', of course I am. I'm pretty open in my information because we are being manipulated all the time, by quotes and all that." Which again suggests to me he knows exactly what he's doing, yet doesn't have a clue, doesn't realise not everyone finds him as "open in [his] information" as he believes himself to be. As you say, any company that gets people talking and debating to such an extent has to be doing something right, no matter how wrong it all feels.maddy costahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929576408540749708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651145764236805587.post-12082914024004157982011-12-10T23:38:35.880+00:002011-12-10T23:38:35.880+00:00This was a really great read and one I found parti...This was a really great read and one I found particularly enlightening after last night's trip to see <i>Audience</i>. I agree with you that OG are great manipulators; however, my conclusion is that there is a big streak of maliciousness in this manipulation that they refuse to take ownership of, and I find myself not respecting them as individuals for making work that does, in my belief, damage the audience they so cheerfully walk away from when their "job" is over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com