I’ve now seen a couple of standalone 1H6s and can confirm is good!

Hanh Bui reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2024 production of Pericles, dir. Tamara Harvey.

🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/pericles/pas...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971401

📷: Johan Persson

Scott Shepherd reviews Oh! Ophelia, Ophelia, presented by Choi Sung-ok’s Meta-dance Project as part of the 2024 K Stage Festa at Myeongdong Theater.

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971399

📷: Sang Hoon Ok

Best of all, this issue is published Open Access, so all of these reviews are available to anyone who wants to read them - no institutional access necessary! 🙌

There’s also something grimly fitting about the fact that the machines don’t understand “no”.

Gonna stick just to theatre productions, and those which live rent free in my brain:

1. Cheek by Jowl’s Measure for Measure
2. Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s Roman Tragedies
3. Dash Arts’ Midsummer Night’s Dream
4. Filter’s Twelfth Night
5. The RSC’s 2006-08 Histories Cycle (2 Henry VI if forced)

I mean, this is still a long way away from the abolition of ‘AI’ that I’m after; it’s good that the SoA is working on this, but I’m resisting the propaganda that this is inevitable and that the ground we’re fighting is only ‘how much do we get’

I think that it’s good faith, but I think the current systems, practices, and driving forces of “AI” are so hideous that I continue to conscientiously object. I hate the language of “opportunities”; I don’t see opportunity here, I see fear of lack of compensation.

Many thoughts.

“Higher education experts at PA Consulting” which might explain the absolute business jargon word salad. Engage, portfolio rationalization, engage, downsize, service provision, engage. Imagine showing this to anyone working at a university 50 years ago. Hell, even 20.

No, I don’t think so, unless a single play is getting so much discussion that breaking it down becomes necessary. We did character entries for my two volumes in the Critical Reader series because the entire book was about a single play.

… the pursuit of knowledge and discovery and joy for their own sake is the *point*, rather than just the accrual of capital. I think there’s time and space for us to do the things that others aren’t doing, and I don’t think that’s a dilution of the bigger missions.

I try to remind myself that it’s not a zero-sum game, otherwise we crush ourselves with guilt into uselessness for not achieving a 100% productivity in activism goal. I also think that the esoteric projects we do are their own form of resistance, an act of faith towards a world where …