so this past weekend...i lie, this past 48 hours (it's a long weekend) i have seen 5 one-act plays (one of them being my own) and 2 full length plays.
that's a whole hell of a lot of theatre...here's the problem...only ONE of those 7 shows (and not mine) was really fantastic...the other full length was pretty ok but generally i was disappointed with yesterday's 6.5 shows ( i saw .5 because mine was technically on friday night)...
there just wasn't anything new or interesting or even particularly outstandingly well done. the thing with the one acts that i was involved in was that they were all really sickeningly amateur (mine included and one excluded) and there was no surprise when the winners were announced (it was a competition) because those guys that won win everything...they are the best at never doing anything different...
now, i know this may be making me sound a little bit like 'princess bitter' but i assure you i'm not; it's hard to be bitter about a show that you didn't love and didn't work too too hard on not winning...i'm just bitter that it's all gotten so boring and that even the stuff that is suppose to be 'cutting edge' is no sharper than an old fuckin' table spoon...the only thing these artists are challenging is your ability to stay awake and think of some bullshit positive comments to make after their show...
now, this may also sound like me being, 'oh, i am so much better than you because i am using a sharp fuckin' knife when i make art...' ew! please, i am not that pretentious and in no way do i think that highly of myself...i WANT to make art like that someday but right now i am still treading water in the shallow end with the kids that shit in the pool...which is fine because we all gotta start somewhere...
now, the show i saw tonight...
wait, can i just sidebar and say that i have started the last three paragraphs with 'now,...' funny....i have no intention of changing it but i thought it would let y'all know that i noticed it too...
now, the show i saw tonight wasn't breaking down any borders or attempting to do anything that hadn't been done before but it was show created and mounted with honesty and heart and by two people who genuinely love what they do...
if you aren't going to 'reinvent the wheel' (which is not what i am asking for...) then at least do what you're going to do honestly and with love; that shouldn't be too much to ask....or maybe it is...
xo alice.
p.s. organic raisins are WAY better than chemical raisins...for reals kids!
p.p.s. the spell checker wants to turn fuckin' into puccini...heh heh!
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