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Re: RAT Altamont Now



brad,
my play would be on that list if you'd read it.
--Karen in Seattle, tired of being obscure!!!!!
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>From: brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>
>To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>Subject: Re: RAT Altamont Now
>Date: Thu, Feb 18, 1999, 8:36 AM
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> Karen and all other assorted RATS,
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>Thank youi for the quick and voluminous responses (even you, autoreply
>Gaby.)  Never before have I
> gotten this kind  of immediate feedback to anything I've written on tthis
>list, and I must say I am honored and  happily surprised. For all of the
>cynical hipness we might project, I feel this points to a real commitment
>to each other and the work that we do that is at least as important as
>Conferences , or Rat Sass, or sharing doughnuts. And erik, if you are out
>there, you're absolutely right-- there is no way any institution could be
>this flexible.
>
>Just to clarify-- when it rains , it pours...  I had just reurned from 19
>Graduate School Auditions (in  6 days) to find a message on my machine from
>a small Philadelphia theatre (Allen's Lane. )
> They had gotten a message that I wanted to direct, and wanted to talk to
>me about a possible slot in the fall of '99.   I explained  to them  that I
>had just apllied to Grad School, and they responded by asking me to fax
>them my  bio sketch, resume, headshot, and a list of five plays that I
>would want to direct  with ideas on production of each.
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>Now,  Theatre Double is the RAT theatre in these parts, but even they can't
>do everything, and I have a special desire to flood  Philadelphia with Rat
>and Rat-like theatre. So I sat down and composeed the following list:
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>1) A Girl's Guide to the Divine Comedy by Shelley Berc
>2) Native Speech by Eric Overmyer
>3) Elektra Fugues by Ruth Margraff
>4) Altamont Now by David Bucci
>5) 7 Blowjobs by Mkac Wellman
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>This is all from a random phone call that appeared on my machine, and will
>only actualize if I don't get in  to Grad School.  If I do, I will be
>coming to an M.F.A. program near you.... Institutional subversion, anyone??
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>May a Thousand RATS Scavenge,
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