Jeffreys' play, seen here in its regional premiere, raises pertinent questions about artistic birthright and cultural exploitation, beautifully summed up in Jesse's sardonically improvised Stockbroker Belt Blues: "Down in Surrey I have to work so hard/I break stocks all day and plant lobelias in the yard".
This flattening of culture follows the popularity of post-structuralism, which rejects a hierarchy of artistic merit and equates exploitation and art.
Sunday Times writer Bryan Appleyard added that the "K Foundation's witty exploitations of artistic greed... are essential aspects of the prize itself.
Given Hirst's debated artistic status, and his knowing exploitation of this, surely it should have been a central part of any information written about him.
I'll let you be the judge of how successful he has been, but this third visit to the material strikes me as either crude exploitation or extreme artistic indecision, and it's hard to judge which is worse.
An Easy Rider with conceptual rigor, the movie that most clearly presaged the way in which exploitation content and artistic treatment would be combined in modestly budgeted films of later years was United Artists' biker-themed Electra Glide in Blue (1973), directed by James William Guercio.
In Ishiguro's case the "gory details" of organ donation and human exploitation are further freighted with the artistic scruples of the impersonator.
Chico and Rita, both Cubans of African descent, must deal with discrimination and exploitation as they pursue fame, fortune and artistic fulfillment.
Career as administrator: Co- founder and administrator Open Space Theatre ('69-77 '69-77stic director Round House ('77-83); heartisticuring andirectorcial exploitation National TheatRound85-89); executive producer Peter HouseCompany '77-83 '77-83olt Ltd '90-.
