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Re: RAT In support of in-home, in-class, on-line theater
The people I'm talking about are involved in the counterculture, the tech
culture, the psych-culture. For example, over the past year, in talking to
professional writers [mostly fiction] from a group I help to run very few saw
theater more than twice last year. Why? The writing/performance they see in film
(even TV) is superior to what they see (Phila and NYC) on stage. It's not a
travel thing -- several of them went well out of their way to see films at the
new, improved Festival of World Cinema in Phila, or regularly go to Film Forum
in NYC.
It has to do with their notion of what constitutes *quality* -- and that
has been defined by novel/film.
And.... when theater doesn't relate to the community that it serves, then
it is really theater in the original sense, is it? :)
Cheers,
Cat
This elitism has been displayed
in several of the posts on this topic.
-Cat
IMHO humble and elite
in the same sentence!?
sounds like "the most interesting people"you know
are fed up with what is out
there and are in front of the computer more
than they'd like.
It's easy to become cynical if the theatre you visit
does not look like the
world you invision yourself a part of.
Theatre
is harder to get to than film. It often asks we make a special effort
to
get directions, to get tickets, to read the play. If that special effort
is elitist, well, break my bones!
Jessica