Re: RAT Re: Tickets

["Glen-Skip- Newell" <skipworthy@hotmail.com>]

Cousin Audie said-
>
>Jesus Christ!  We're paraphrasing Jesus Christ now in
>this argument?!?

Yep. And Buddha, and Mohammed too...(pffffttttt)

Please do please give me a break.
>After 2K years....

No, give ME a break...you've been doing theatre for 2000 years ? You can 
honestly speak of box office vs art in the days of Greek tragedy (when both 
belonged to the temple...speaking of institutionally subsidized art...)


I find most intelligent audience
>members have progressed beyond wanting to see us nail
>ourselves to a big ol' bloody  cross for their sake.

Yep. I never said we should martyr ourselves (but then, english IS such an 
ODD language...). I hate that kind of theatre , personally-had enough of it.


>I suppose it made for reasonably good, cutting-edge
>theatre back then, but now it just seems to smack ever
>so slightly of... what's the word?... condescension.
>

Worse. it's completely disingenuous to invite people into our 
theatre/home/temple and bombard them with how miserable we are...not to 
mention inhospitable.

>Either give them something they want (I know--
>Heresy!), or convince them to want something they
>didn't think they would, could or should.

I don't think it's heresy to entertain, or to aid folks in escaping 
'reality' for awhile. It IS heresy and high treason as well to tell them 
something is 'good' or 'art' or anything it is NOT.

>  Martyrdom
>makes for lousy art.
>
Agreed.

By the way...your mother says hello...

skipworthy



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