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Joining the chorus of people committed to keeping this as, in fact, mainstream view.

It concludes with our book reviews section, spotlighting Theatres of Value by Danielle Rosvally and Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama by Noam Reisner.

43.2 continues with twelve performance reviews including two reworkings of Hamlet – The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel), presented by the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary filmed within GTA Online.

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’