RE: RAT Famous Playwrights, Mostly Dead

["Werner Trieschmann" <werner_trieschmann@adg.ardemgaz.com>]

What a wonderfully sensible and sane response. 

New topic:

Yes, he's a friend of mine, but I'd recommend Lee Wochner's "Anapest" which I
saw at a reading in Fayetteville, Ark. some years back. It maps out a modern
dystopia with chilling humor. Friends with very unique powers huddle in a
basement and wait to be found out. 

As for Lee's address. He's at Moving Arts in Los Angeles. If you send out a
flare on this list, I'm sure he'll answer. 

Werner T. 
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>From: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com on Wed, Jan 19, 2000 1:27 PM
>Subject: RE: RAT Famous Playwrights, Mostly Dead
>To: 'rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com'
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>SARCASTIC OPENING:
>Boy I agree. When coming up with the most influencial plays of the
>millenium, century and decade, which is obviously a matter of artistic life
>or death, we should take it deathly seriously and try to mention plays that
>we didn't enjoy, didn't understand and didn't see. I can't believe people
>are listing off all these tired old hacks. Like that guy Chris Jeffries who
>mentioned "70 Scenes of Halloween!" What a conventional, mainstream,
>unimaginative choice!! He could at least chosen play that is a little more
>interesting like "Nightcoil". 
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>GENERALLY SINCERE PLEA:
>To those who want to promote unheard theater voices. Could you please stop
>relying on guilt trips to get your message across? It's really boring.
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>OBVIOUS OBSERVATION:
>Lists or contests or statements about "The Person of the Century" or the
>"Most Influencial Play of the Millenium" are by their nature reductive and
>silly. They are also fun. If you take them seriously you are just being a
>bummer.  
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>PREDICTED RESPONSE:
>"Shut up! I have the right to be a bummer!!! You're just like Hitler and the
>Nazis!"
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>MY RESPONSE:
>Yes you have the right to be a bummer. And a whiner too. Keep up the good
>work.
>
>POSSIBLE NEW TOPIC:
>"Best play that I saw in the past decade that should be produced by RAT
>theaters...and here's the play and the playwright's address...."
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>ANOTHER POSSIBLE TOPIC:
>"The correct use of semi-colons."
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>YET ANOTHER TOPIC:
>"Shakespeare ain't shit cuz he's a Dead Straight White Anglo Saxon Man."
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