Re: hey, what's new in RATdom?

[Bobby Mrozek <bby@earthlink.net>]

Theatre.

Is anyone interested in talking about theatre?  

Has anyone see "INFRARED" at DTW (New York)?  It is excellent!  I've 
seen about 400-500 plays in the last 10-15 years, an this production is 
outstanding amoung all that I've seen.  The language is brilliant and 
the performances exist with a captivating physical presence that can't 
be ignored. And, the "Judas Man" scene, what do think of that!?!  I had 
the good fortune of attending opening night, with the author, Mac 
Wellman, present, and, as I had made his acquaintance years before, I 
had the chance to talk to him before and after.  He is the sort of 
person who is quite impossible to quote, so I won't, but his comments on 
the production were bold, and effusive, and enthusiastic, and glowing, 
and laudatory, and panegyrical, and so on... like a sort of poet's 
benediction (he had seen rehearsals as well as the first public 
performance). But the "Judas Man" scene -- why can't more theatre be as 
that?

"INFRARED," two performances remain, 12/17-18 at DTW's Bessie Schonberg 
Theatre, 212.924.0077.

Theatre.  May I suggest that this list could be of some use for 
discussion of theatre.  I've been on for 3-4 years, and we never, ever 
talk about theatre. We only talk about ourselves, with a vague reason 
that it has something to do with theatre, because, we also have an 
ancillary interested in theatre, but obviously not as profound and 
insightfull as our interest in ourselves, our sophmoric politics and our 
stunning realization of our own self-brilliance, which no one else can 
possibly understand...    

Theatre.  Would anyone like to talk about theatre?