Melbourne Reviews
The monks' current touring show, Legendary Masters of Kung Fu, has a much more integrated theatrical approach, with acts blending comfortably into one another and plenty of fast-paced ensemble action. It's not short on entertainment, even for Kung Fu virgins like myself.
Photo - Jeff Busby
The
play has certainly dated to some extent and has become a drawing-room
drama, albeit in Australian suburbia, where the initially shocking
issues of promiscuity, wife-swapping and lesbianism now seem rather
tame, but that is not the only problem.
Photo - Branco Gaica
Contemporary
audiences are at once both made for and yet terribly ill-suited to
opera. On the one hand, we live in the society of the spectacle,
thriving on a diet of bigger-is-better media events. On the other, we
also live in a permanent state of disinterested distraction, weaned on
the faddish impermanence of a commodified mediascape.
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