Re: RAT SQUONK

[DgSWEET@aol.com]

Well, actually, Ben Brantley loved SQUONK downtown and wasn't nuts about it 
uptown.  And the difference -- he said explicitly -- wasn't the neighborhood 
but the SPACE.  A lot of theatre is about spacial relationships, and a piece 
that is good in one space is not necessarily good in another.  I didn't see 
SQUONK downtown.  I did see it uptown and it seems to be in the wrong theatre 
-- a formal proscenium with a lot of distance (physical and metaphoric) 
between the stage and the audience.  So don't blame Broadway, blame the 
producers that didn't move this to the appropriate home.

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Jeffrey Sweet
Resident Playwright, Victory Gardens Theatre
Faculty, Actors Studio at the New School
Council, the Dramatists Guild of America
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