Re: RAT Theatre in our time.

[jonoh1@juno.com]

We have met the audience.
And they is us.
Jonathan

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:41:45 -0800 Mike Shapiro <shap@csi.com> writes:
> <resend>
> 
> if, as they say, we create God in our own image, perhaps it follows: 
>  if the
> audience is King/Queen, maybe we've defined (defiled?) them in some 
> unknowingly
> reflective fashion.  just as it's hard to express a new idea for 
> which words
> have yet to be formed, perhaps it's likewise improbable that we 
> should envision
> and concoct theater for an audience of anyone we haven't, in effect, 
> met
> before.  or more to the point, for a house of souls we wouldn't 
> choose to go
> drinking with afterward, at least for coffee while it's still kind 
> of light
> out.  it's no fun to serve up show-as-medicine, as in "here honey, 
> drink this --
> 
> it's good for you."
> 
> i gotta say, i kind of love big splashy numbers where the women hip 
> their hands
> and the men throw their own heavenward.  i tend to buy it.
> 
> mike
> 

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