Re: RAT CONFERENCE 99 INFO

[leewochner@movingarts.org (Lee Wochner)]

Mark:

Don't let these people piss you off. There are only a couple of them and if
they do show up at the RAT Conference they'll probably be little cows in
corners. RAT allowed me to meet the great people from Annex, Peculiar Works
Project, Thieves Theatre, parenthetical theatre works, and, by extension,
almost everyone affiliated with BCT. RAT is a gift from all of us to all of
us. Some people just don't know how to give or receive gifts. Ignore them.
They drown in their own spite.

See you soon.

Lee


At 10:10 PM 6/24/99, ActorsGng1@aol.com wrote:
>Okay,
>
>I just read 170 fucking e-mail messages.  I've been in S.F. for four days
>talking about theater (which I didn't think was a waste of time or somehow an
>inferior activity) and seeing theater, mostly done by what I consider
>inventive, imaginative and alternative companies from around the country.  I
>don't know if RAT = ALTERNATIVE or what.  I do know that my opinion of what
>is alternative, or good, or shitty, is MINE.  I don't expect anyone else to
>abide by it.  And I don't know who made Paul the final authority on what
>Alternative is.  I also disagree that taking money from foundations or
>governments or rich people or film companies or movie stars doesn't make
>theater bad, good, alternative or mainstream (in my opinion). And meeting
>about theater and being on Boards doesn't make you a lesser or better artist.
> Good work is good. Bad work is bad. I don't give shit who pays for it.  I've
>seen a lot of "poor" theater in downtown L.A. (hell, I've done some) and I
>thought some of it was great and some of it sucked and it had nothing to do
>with how much money was spent.
>
>I've just met some RATS from around the country and they seem like good
>people.   But after reading all this petty, angry crap, I'm tempted to stay
>here.
>
>Paul, and everyone else, have the right to their opinions and to voice them.
>And I have the right to think they're full of shit (in my opinion).
>
>Mark Seldis
>Actors' Gang
>(y'know, the mainstream theater that doesn't do alternative work because we
>ocassionally have money).

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