The Blues Brothers Band
Thebarton Theatre
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
There is a scene in the Blues Brothers movie when the eponymous Jake and Ellwood are putting The Band back together. They go to an empty dinner club to find a remnant of the group in musical purgatory -dressed in mulberry velour playing easy listening kitsch nobody wants to hear. Billed as Murph and the Magictones they epitomise the fate of all has-beens and nevers-were. Sadly, they also prefigure the …
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Criticising Criticism
CRITICISING CRITICISM
By Murray Bramwell
Perhaps because theatre criticism is such a long established enterprise everyone thinks the business and purpose of it is self-evident. In fact, theatre reviewing is a rather strange, some might say barbaric, ritual. Of all reviews, theatre ones are the most intimate and immediate. A film will be widely available and screened and re-screened over a long period of time. Once made, it is infinitely repeatable and open to reconsideration. All sorts of films deemed …
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