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Re: RAT MATING CRIES: Which Night?



Couldn't agree more or have said it better.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

--- Donna Sherritt <ohbelladonna@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, gang--
> 

> 
> 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?

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