Re: RAT Marx in Soho (in LA)

[Greg Romero <gregoryromero@yahoo.com>]

I'm just glad I don't have such a bleak outlook
on things.  I'm over here trying to make a
difference, however small that might be.

> 
> It seems to me that theater as a whole in the
> US has a few primary
> functions:
> -- a way of spending time pleasantly while
> digesting dinner (postprandial
> literacy)
> -- a way of preparing children for roles as
> managers in the corporate
> world
> -- an inexpensive training ground for actors,
> writers, and directors who
> will primarily work in TV
> -- a living museum for the history of the
> theater, which is essentially a
> history of the upper middle class and their
> betters
> -- a place to more-or-less gainfully employ
> children of the educated
> upper middle class who are unsuited for careers
> in real businesses and
> who will write, direct, produce, and criticize
> entertainments aimed at
> portraying the lives and travails of the
> upper-middle-class (or of people
> who greatly interest the upper middle class --
> such as the upper class,
> the amusing working class, freaks,
> intellectuals, and other people with
> whom one wouldn't want to extended periods of
> time) [Have you ever
> wondered why so many artistic directors of
> almost-profitable theaters are
> so aggressive and such spin-meisters? It's
> those business genes kicking
> in.:)]
> 
> The only reason there is any public funding for
> theater has to do with
> corporate support of the above items.


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Greg Romero
Dramaturg
rm 120 theatre
PO Box 300165
Austin TX  78703
(512) 481-8366

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