RAT Hey Brad!

[Sharon MacMenamin <saoirse9@yahoo.com>]

Do you remember a performance of "Armaggedon" by Brian Finney (a 1 man
show) the night the war broke out (or the night b4?) @ the Pioneer
Square Theater?  I, too, was in attendance @ the Federal
Building...got arrested on the 10th avenue bridge when we all sat down
& blocked mounted police from disbursing our protest...again, so much
4 artists (in my case, an actor) 4 being apolitical...hell, if i had a
dollar for every hour i protested @ the British Consulate as a teen
when Bobby Sands was dying on hunger strike, but I digress...

Saw your crazy band of guerilla theatre revolutionaries all covered in
blood: wish I'd found out where else ya'll performed...did you guys
also do guerilla theatre down around 1st avenue near the Pike Place
Market, too?


Sharon MacMenamin,
Annex (not "The Annex Theatre"!) Theatre alum
Sacred Fool now


---brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com> wrote:
>
> Karen,
> 
> Way back when, at the beginnig of this debate, you announced to me
that ifI
> had only read your play, it would be on my list of pieces that  I
should
> produce-- which led to the obscurity thread...
> 
> My direct contact with you has been quite edifying, and enjoyable..
but as
> I read you, I find myself going from "gee, she's aggresssive" to "I
feel
> she might be alienating a lot of people who could help her  get her 
work
> produced" to " i wish she'd just cool out"  to "  I don't care about
 this
> anymore" to" I wish I wasn't on this list." That was my  personal
> progression.
> 
>  Forget what you might be feeling for a second- a question- does 
everyone
> have to share every opinion they might have just because  they're
thinking
> about it? Are we all Pavlovian RATS,. reaching for the Reply to all"
> button? Must  we always,  to quote  Spinal Tap, "go to Eleven'?
> 
> 
> Some misconceptions that I care to correct- that all in the theatre
world
> are apolitical. Ask most on this list if they are not tired of my
beautiful
> ravings about anarchism and pacifism. : )
> 
> 
> 
>  No one does theory.
> 
>  We were in Seattle at the same time- I was one of the found ing
members of
> the Alchemical Theatre--- , which was based in Artaud, Meyerhold,
Deleuze
> and Guattari  and Virillio. Had a theatre that shared a wall with
> Underground Seattle, in the alley at the bottom of  Yesler Way...
> 
> As your new lover. Jono, can tell you-- we were so political and
committed
> and controversial that we were denied entry to a non-juried Fringe
Festival
> in Seattle. We were just beyond the pale..Now Jono will respond that
he was
> our white knight , while everyone else was against us....It doesn't
really
> matter. Just interesting that  we were threatening enough to Fringe
> Festival Hierarchy at large that they denied us.
> 
> Or, maybe you remember me from the Gulf War- I was the guy on TV, long
> hair, picket sign in one hand, Teddy Bear in the other. Maybe you
remember
> the one-month anniversary of the Gulf War, the reoccupation of The
Federal
> Builing Plaza, the  Ritual Death piece with naked people covered in
theatre
> blood.  My piece, concieved directed and performed in...  Just a
partial
> list- doesn't include the street piece about not paying your taxes...
> 
> Jusst be more careful in the  assumptions  you make  about this list
before
> you know these folks ok?
> 
> The reason I want to know and like the writers I work with is
because I
> love the theattre.. Even if I am lucky enough to make a living at it
--I
> never want it to turn into a job... This means  selecting out those
people
> who turn love into work..
> 
> 
> Right now, you're making it feel like work.
> 
> --brad
> 
> 
> 

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