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Bobby,

If and when you recover from your giddiness from talking with Mac, please try 
to send another one of your inspiring Theatre Project press releases to the 
rat-list.  

Keep that theater talk going!!!

--nick

In a message dated 12/15/99 10:24:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
bby@earthlink.net writes:

> 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?
>