Re: RAT MATING CRIES: Which Night?

["Jonathan Westerberg" <jwesterberg@earthlink.net>]

Yes, and what about being able to smell the performers on stage?

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>From: Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>
>To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>Subject: Re: RAT MATING CRIES: Which Night?
>Date: Wed, Dec 29, 1999, 9:07 AM
>

> Couldn't agree more or have said it better.
>
> Welcome, welcome, welcome.
>
> --- Donna Sherritt <ohbelladonna@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, gang--
>>
>
>>
>> What most interests me are performances that are
>> essentially theatrical.
>> I'm less interested in work that could just as
>> easily be done on film or
>> television.  I won't go so far as to say that that
>> kind of work shouldn't be
>> done.  "There's room for everything," I say
>> cheerfully through tight teeth.
>> But I see an awful lot of theatre that might as well
>> be videotaped.  I
>> exhort everyone listening to take utter, extreme
>> advantage of the fact that
>> you are in a specific space, participating in
>> several successive moments of
>> live interaction with an audience that cannot be
>> duplicated (the moments or
>> the audience - forgive my dangling participle).
>>
>> Sounds simple, but aren't we all a bit tired of
>> watching what amounts to
>> ninety-minute, live sitcoms, or movies-of-the-week?
>
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