and we got a review for the play i'm in, The Harvey Project. it's exciting to be reviewed no matter what, although this one is a little surface. the other problem with this show in particular is that it is a new play, and the people in charge of Openstage Etc. saw fit to offer the cast up as sacrificial lambs after every single show for a talk-back.
now, i have nothing against talk-backs. they can be fun, and often you get a truer sense of what an audience is seeing, since it's not your friends telling you what they thought of the show--it's strangers. but since this is a new play, and since people have been explicitly invited to offer their opinions of it, we are getting an awful lot of not-useful information best sent directly to the playwright. people want to critique the story ad infinitum, and the plot, and the length of the scenes, and we have no control over that. and so it becomes an exercise in listening to people bitch about things we cannot fix, even if we wanted to.
and last week we were blessed to have half a dozen or so recent graduates from CSU's theatre department bestow the deep vastness of their knowledge upon us. there's nothing like a recent college graduate to tell you everything you never wanted to know about everything.
i never knew so much as i did when i graduated; thank god i know less and less every year.
anyway, i think the atmosphere of the talk-back might influence reviewers. the fact that there is a talk-back might even change people's opinions of the show, and make them less open to what they are seeing out there, rather than thinking about clever things to say about the meta-picture.
or i could just be whining...
come see it either way, two more weekends, starting tonight.
peace,
k
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