Mycroft Hears, Mycroft Knows

One of Mycroft's fans directed him to the following blog:

http://shitonyourplay.blogspot.com/

This contains some rather hilarious reviews of the Sydney theatre scene.  Hilarious because the plays are actually reveiwed rather than worshipped.  The usual theatre review never tells you what you need to know.  Usually this would be something along the lines of 'Avoid this play because it is pretentious pseudo intellectual nonsense, as well as long winded and boring'. 

I would write reviews myself if I could actually recall what some of the plays were that I had to sit through.  I do recall one called 'Riflemind', which stands out as it was simply the dullest production of anything I've even seen.  As I recall, it tells the story of a rock band - all 25 years of it, in real time.  Falling asleep was no problem, as the story was repeated ceaselessly about every 3 minutes.

Theatre can be amusing of course.  One of the funniest things is watching people stand up to give a standing ovation to something which is quite mundane, or in fact downright bad.  They just want everyone to look at them in all their faux-intellectual glory as they applaud something that the rest of us were just happy to get to the end of. 

Readers may be wondering what Mycroft knows this week.  He knows he needs to blog more, and keep the momentum going.  He also knows there have been requests from readers, such as that the 'Golden Turkey' awards should make a comeback.  For those of you not familiar with the 'Golden Turkey' awards, these are conferred on anything particularly bad.  Often the 'Golden Turkey' is awarded to a particularly poor movie (eg: the fabulously bad 'Dr Faustus' starring Richard Burton), though the awards can apply in almost any field of endeavour.  Readers with a nominee for a 'Golden Turkey' should get them in.  At the end of the year we shall award the following (in ascending order of magnitude):

Garden Variety Golden Turkey
Premium Golden Turkey
Superior Golden Turkey
Ocean Going Golden Turkey
Intergalactic Golden Turkey
Golden Turkey with Diamonds