{"id":9,"date":"2006-09-10T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2006-09-10T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T15:04:05","slug":"the-hollow-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"The Hollow Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We are <a title=\"text of T S Eliot poem The Hollow Men\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/poetry.poetryx.com\/poems\/784\/\">the hollow men<\/a><br \/>\nWe are the stuffed men<br \/>\nLeaning together<br \/>\nHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!<br \/>\nOur dried voices, when<br \/>\nWe whisper together<br \/>\nAre quiet and meaningless<br \/>\nAs wind in dry grass<br \/>\nOr rats&#8217; feet over broken glass<br \/>\nIn our dry cellar<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the Hedy Weiss spectacle in Chicago ends in the way it began. Not with a bang but a whimper. Its only accomplishment was the denigration of both theatre and criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Theatre as an art form is more than just the manufacturer of a consumer product subject to the whim of a newspaper review. Audience is something other than the Wal-Mart shopper. Yet playwrights will often cast the press as scapegoat for the culture\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lack of attention to theatre and their lack of a career.<\/p>\n<p>We whisper together \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If only Hedy Weiss were gone, Chicago would be a great theatre town.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The 22 Dramatists Guild letters now sit in their vault, quiet and meaningless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats&#8217; feet over broken glass In our dry cellar And the Hedy Weiss spectacle in Chicago ends in the way it began. Not with a bang but a whimper. Its only accomplishment was the denigration of both theatre and criticism. Theatre as an art form is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=9\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artistcritic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}