The Vile Blog

Theatre and Culture from Scotland, starring The List's Theatre Editor, his performance persona and occasional guest stars. Experimental writings, cod-academic critiques and all his opinions, stolen or original.

Sunday, 19 January 2014

Carnival and BDSM (NSFW)

Ah, we all knew we'd end up here eventually: the carnivalesque. The popular description of pantomime and live art (they both challenge...

A Bad Metropolitan Novel

A Bad Novel, yesterday Raymond Williams describes a conversation. An educated French man meets the professor. 'Alas,' he cries. ...

Religious Ramble: Theatrical Thoughts

At the end of Performance: A Critical Introduction , Marvin Carlson considers the audience, partially as a plea not to dissolve the study of...

Saturday, 18 January 2014

Debord come up with Deideas.

This evening's selected highlight from Glasgow University library is Audiences by Abercrombie and Longhurst. Although it was published ...

Scottish Theatre (thinking out loud)

No doubt the world is waiting for the Vile opinion on Scottish Independence. Sadly, I am a Wessex Regionalist, and my opinion is firmly i...

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