Miscellaneous Musings

by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low • July 2, 2008 • I spent much of the month of May writing about the Spirit in the House Festival, and continued my ambivalent struggle with the concept: what possible definition of “spiritual theatre” can be created that isn’t either offensively narrow or ludicrously broad? The problem fascinates me enough that I’ve written about it at some length.

by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low • June 22, 2008 • “It is a misfortune that Drama, an art fundamentally distinct from Literature, should so commonly be considered together with it, or as a branch of it. Among these misfortunes we may reckon the depreciation of Fantasy. For in part at least this depreciation is due to the natural desire of critics to cry up the forms of literature or imagination that they themselves, innately or by training, prefer.

by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low • June 20, 2008 • Hey. My name’s phillip low, and I’ve written for enough blogs in the past two years that I suspect I could write these introductions in my sleep. That seems pretty dry, though, and we’ll be learning about each other soon enough. Since my primary function here is to write about the Minnesota Fringe Festival, however, a brief recap of my history with the organization may be fruitful.