– from – and more – from – here
the so-called re-activation of the theatre is temporary.
the question I would ask is how make it permanently temporary?
since the theatre is temporary.
a region of existential refrain. [Guattari]
I suggested a similar re-activation for Downstage theatre Wellington when it was announced it couldn’t afford to stay open after Radar’s one man show.
It has stayed open. But is in poor health. Negotiations were held with City Council. And, since, strategies have been put in place…
strategies…?
put in place…?
I still propose occupying Downstage.
Despite the depredations of prolonged use as a venue with skeletal administration – starvation in other words – and no company and the concomitant deterioration in the state of the building – through economic isolation although not an isolated case of it –
and despite the good intentions of Downstage’s board of governance and the rallying of the supporters’ society
and that of the negotiators
those theatrical healthcare officers
to devise a strategy for treatment [see here]
it is still that lovable bunker, the unfinished concrete interior of which once long ago caused some old ladies I overheard in an interval in the ambulatory to express their pleasure at buying tickets since the money would help pay to finish the building!
and meanwhile its present shameful disuse continues for the St. James theatre in Auckland … better occupy that than that excuse for a civic space, Aotea Square, in the land of the long white out …
