RE: RAT test

["Sylvain, John" <jsylvain@station.sony.com>]

Yes! Exactly! Perfect! It's happening. A new thing. Now. Here. There. A NEW
THING. A New Theater. A New Medium. I'm so excited I could throw up!!!

Slouching towards Bethlehem.....

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Allison Narver [SMTP:anarver@chesnutt.com]
> Sent:	Friday, February 26, 1999 3:22 PM
> To:	RAT
> Subject:	Re: RAT test
> 
> Naw, if God had been clearing her throat she'd have said, "Come in Radio
> Tokyo, Come in Radio Tokyo".  Huh, I'm not even sure I understand that.
> I couldn't post to the RAT list before (for strange mysterious computer
> reasons) and all that got fixed yesterday.  I was feeling like the strange
> child in a big house who stood at the window and watched all the other
> children at play but couldn't play herself (or watched all the other
> children throw rocks at each other, whatever the case may be).
> Now of course all I want to do is chime in on LAST week's topics --
> "Foolin around with Obscurity" and "Grad School; Expensive Sheep Pen for
> the Stars."
>  
> I just got out of a very expensive Sheep Pen with an MFA in Directing.  I
> hated it at first and felt like I had landed in the set of the TV show
> FAME.  I despised every moment of it and complained violently to Chris
> Jeffries online.  His advice to me was "Steal everything that's not nailed
> down" and I tried my best.  Now, in retrospect I am glad I went.  I got a
> lot of tools that I wouldn't have had otherwise (some stolen, some
> earned).  But I was also pretty darn clear about why I was going in the
> first place -- and the reasons I went had nothing to do with meeting the
> "right" people or making connections.  I had all the connections I ever
> wanted from little old Annex Theatre in Seattle Washington and from Rat
> Conferences past and present.  I went to learn about Meyerhold and Giorgio
> Strehler and Shakespeare and Artaud and Christopher Marlowe and all the
> old dead guys that we had never gone near at Annex.  And I'm so thankful I
> did --   RAT's of the past, all of them.   And I'm a very different
> director as a result. 
>  
> And let me tell you this... the people I knew at Yale were psyched by the
> RAT conference. One teacher, Ben Mordercai, who is a Broadway Producer (I
> say that so you know just how very un-RAT like he is), made articles about
> RAT required reading in his classes.  Even those people working for the
> Man, working for the stodgiest of all institutions recognize it is time
> for radical upheaval in the way we look at and make theater.  And
> particularly in the way the institutions that support theater and support
> artists are run.  And that is what I am most interested in talking
> about... 
> Regional theater was a radical concept when first proposed by people like
> Zelda Fichlander in the fifties.  So, where do we go now?  What radical
> concept do we create that will support the creation of new work on a large
> scale for the next thirty years?   Maybe I'm alone, but I for one believe
> that it is up to us.  And, in thirty years, some new bunch of
> smart-mouthed upstarts will come along and tell us we're fucked up and
> what we've created doesn't work.  
>  
> We need to (and I don't mean RAT, I mean us as a bunch of theater makers
> who seem to live below the radar) create new ways of making new work on a
> large scale.  And we can do it if we believe we can.  Any sense of
> victimization must stop -- "they" aren't keeping us from doing that.  "We"
> are keeping ourselves from doing that.
> Ok now I sound like I'm about to offer you a free personality test if
> you'll just step inside...
>  
> Sorry for the lengthy post.  I'm just stretching my legs (they've been
> cooped up in a first class sheep pen for the last three years)
>  
> Love,
> Allison 
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: chris mac < cmacdona@Adobe.COM <mailto:cmacdona@Adobe.COM>>
> 	To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com <mailto:rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com> <
> rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com <mailto:rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>>
> 	Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 3:38 PM
> 	Subject: Re: RAT test
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> 	Is that the sound of God clearing her voice?
> 	
> 	Big kiss Allison.
> 	
> 	
> 	...C
> 	
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> 	From: "Allison Narver" < anarver@chesnutt.com
> <mailto:anarver@chesnutt.com>>
> 	To: "RAT" <rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>
> 	Subject: RAT test
> 	Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999, 5:59 PM
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> 		test. test. achem. is this thing on?
> 		Allison Narver
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