 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Breast Cancer / July 2004Mango (odd title but read it anyway)
BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play today "Mango" was about the dancer Anne Kilcoyne who produced a performance based on her breast cancer. The performance was based on a one-breast striptease, at the age of 62. Anne, who died last week, reads the central narrative herself. I found it quite moving. If you have RealPlayer (e.g. the free download) and a broadband connection you can listen to it anytime in the next seven days at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/ram/afternoonplay_fri.ram (ignore the first few seconds trailing another program, these things are recorded automatically.) Tim Jackson > BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play today "Mango" was about the dancer Anne > Kilcoyne who produced a performance based on her breast cancer. The [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > I found it quite moving. I wondered if anyone here heard it. I found it irritatingly slow, contrived and pretentious and not at all moving, I was very disappointed because it seemed to have no relevance to me or anyone here after the first few minutes. But I'm pleased that it served someone else differently :-) Mary > Tim Jackson > > BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play today "Mango" was about the dancer Anne > > Kilcoyne who produced a performance based on her breast cancer. The [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > But I'm pleased that it served someone else differently :-) Fair enough, I was driving, so the slowness didn't bother me, I wasn't paying a lot of attention at first. It might have more relevance to males, as what it mainly seemed to address (IMHO) was the male reaction to mastectomy. Tim > > > BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play today "Mango" was about the dancer Anne > > > Kilcoyne who produced a performance based on her breast cancer. The [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > as what it mainly seemed to address (IMHO) was the male reaction to > mastectomy. I think you have a point there - the male reaction comment. But you know my opinion of mastectomy anyway, perhaps I was being too harsh, I know that many women are very upset about it. When it began I was interested because of the description of the woman with the joyful picture of her new image. Then, when the narrator was so presumptuous about the other photograph (of a woman's torso showing her mastectomy scar) I was cross - I felt that she shouldn't have made such an assessment of how that woman felt when she couldn't see her face. Or even if she had been able to ... I thought about those lovely (to me) pictures we've talked about recently on this group and my asking if we could do our own gallery. Just because a woman isn't smiling or laughing doesn't mean that she's miserable about her condition. She could be calm, she could be more accepting than the subject of the play, come to think of it ... Value judgements can do a disservice to others. I'm really sorry that I couldn't enjoy the play, I wanted to ... Mary > Tim > > > > BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play today "Mango" was about the dancer Anne > > > > Kilcoyne who produced a performance based on her breast cancer. The [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > accepting than the subject of the play, come to think of it ... Value > judgements can do a disservice to others. That's the way with art I suppose: the way the picture makes the viewer feel may have nothing to do with how the model felt. Else all the guys who buy Playboy would feel bored, cold and irritable. I think that is particularly true when you can't see the face. Medical photos do seem rather depressing to me. I think she was more criticising the picture as art than the woman herself - and essentially saying "I can do better than that", which prompted to produce a work in her own artform. Tim > > > > > BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play today "Mango" was about the dancer Anne > > > > > Kilcoyne who produced a performance based on her breast cancer. The [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > That's the way with art I suppose: the way the picture makes the viewer feel > may have nothing to do with how the model felt. But in that case the way the model felt was irrelevant to the image ... > Else all the guys who buy > Playboy would feel bored, cold and irritable. I bow to your greater experience :-) > I think that is particularly > true when you can't see the face. Medical photos do seem rather depressing > to me. They're objective, emotions have no place in them. > I think she was more criticising the picture as art than the woman herself - > and essentially saying "I can do better than that", which prompted to > produce a work in her own artform. That's one interpretation which didn't come across to me - perhaps I was distracted. But it wasn't supposed to be art ... and I suspect that the pictures on that website we saw recently have a bigger audience than her play ... which wasn't 100% real, more an interpretation of her experience. Which is what all art is :-) And what medical pictures aren't. I'm not being rude but I'm off to bed, so tired ... still not back to Real Life after two weeks in Wales. Hugs, Mary > Tim > BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play today "Mango" was about the dancer Anne > Kilcoyne who produced a performance based on her breast cancer. The [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > I found it quite moving. It had very good responses from subscribers to Feedback. Mary |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.