RE: RAT Less Work! More Filling!

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

--- Werner Trieschmann 
> Why do some of us feel like we're imposing on people
> by offering up something
> on a stage? 

But don't you see?  You ARE imposing on them-- your
audience at least.

You've asked them to leave their homes-- PC's and
VCR's-- bypass the movie houses that are WAY more
comfortable than the beat-up, crusty, uncomfortable,
smelly ol' seats that you're asking them to sit in. 
And you're asking them to sit through a live
performance, which-- brilliant or miserably bad-- is
ALWAYS more intensly affecting than a two-dimensional
screen experience.  THAT'S why bad theatre is so much
more tortuous than bad film.  It's happening RIGHT
there, in all the same time/space dimensions as you
are.

We ask a lot of our audiences.  We should offer much
in return.  It's not good enough to THINK what we're
doing MIGHT be important.  We have to KNOW it in our
bones, or... be quiet.  Being quiet is beautiful, and
as I said before, almost always preferable to any
imposition on to it.  Let that be our standard.


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