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Re: RAT MATING CRIES: Which Night?
Hi, gang--
I'm new to the list. I've been reading the postings for about a week, but
am just now able to introduce myself. I "do" theatre in Dallas. I'm
involved in every way, onstage and off, most recently with a theatre company
called Our Endeavors. I also work with an organization called Young
Audiences, which works to bring the arts into schools. I look at it as
cultivating a future audience. Get 'em while they're young, I say.
What most interests me are performances that are essentially theatrical.
I'm less interested in work that could just as easily be done on film or
television. I won't go so far as to say that that kind of work shouldn't be
done. "There's room for everything," I say cheerfully through tight teeth.
But I see an awful lot of theatre that might as well be videotaped. I
exhort everyone listening to take utter, extreme advantage of the fact that
you are in a specific space, participating in several successive moments of
live interaction with an audience that cannot be duplicated (the moments or
the audience - forgive my dangling participle).
Sounds simple, but aren't we all a bit tired of watching what amounts to
ninety-minute, live sitcoms, or movies-of-the-week?
Thanks for allowing the mini-rat-rant.
Oh, and to the Independent Eye--
Come to Dallas! We'd love to see you here. Bring your show. I've got a
venue for you. This is for real, so respond if you're interested.
Donna
>From: The Independent Eye <bards@independenteye.org>
>Reply-To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>Subject: RAT MATING CRIES: Which Night?
>Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:54:56 -0800
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