Performance Notes:
MELBOURNE to Run, and Write
“Write All Nite is a website, NOT a fucking blog.”
PERTH 3 (+ Performance Notes!): Glory Days Will Never Pass Them By
You can tell a lot about a show by how Bruce greets the audience at the start. For his last of three nights in Perth, he went with, “GOOOOOOOOD EEEEEEVEEEEEEENIIIIIIING WEEEEEESTEEEEEEEEERN AAAAAAAAUSTRAAAAAAAALIAAAAAAA!!!”
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PERTH 1: The NEW American Resistance
To commemorate moving from my Broadway writing back to E Street, here’s a Sound of Music inspired question that wracked my brain in the weeks leading up to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s Australia/New Zealand 2017 Tour:
LION (Garth Davis) – Tweet of Consciousness
LION revels in the latter, making it what I like to call an Onion Cutter movie. This term was inspired by others, but here’s my definition:
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 22, 2017
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THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS (Derek Cianfrance) – Tweet of Consciousness
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS (Derek Cianfrance): 2016’s BY THE SEA, AKA an underrated gem of a probing relationship study starring a real couple
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 22, 2017
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JASON BOURNE (Paul Greengrass) – Tweet of Consciousness
JASON BOURNE (Paul Greengrass): Every page of the script is utterly formulaic, but nobody cinematizes kinetic tension like Paul Greengrass.
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 22, 2017
HUNDRED DAYS (The Bengsons; The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival) – Tweet of Consciousness
HUNDRED DAYS (The Bengsons; Under the Radar): Yet another "this is our love story" confessional song cycle (with some dialogue thrown in)
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 14, 2017
ASSASSIN’S CREED (Justin Kurzel) – Tweet of Consciousness
ASSASSIN’S CREED (Justin Kurzel): Contains the type of stilted, perfunctory writing non-video gamers wrongly associate with all video games
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 14, 2017
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