Friday, April 16, 2010

Why? in fact, How in the Hell?

Am I the only one that thinks ATC's production with Second City is just plain dumb? If I was planning a corporate retreat and needed some goofy, sophomoric entertainment for the evening I might pick this show. If I am the Artistic/Managing Director for ATC I do not pick this show as part of a season. And I don't care how many sold out houses there are or how many laughs it gets. Two plays in twelve months from a production company with a sweetheart deal from the city doesn't sit well with me, and doesn't justify in my mind crap like this. There are thousands of plays out there already written, great works of art still to be done, and plays yet to be written or produced, that need a company like ATC to give them a life. What do we get instead? Stupid laughs about trivial crap and satire for the ill-informed. This city needs cheap corporate retreat fare like it needs a Monsanto cotton farm - two complete wastes of time and resources and intelligence. The sooner this show goes to Phoenix where it belongs, the better. I have even deeper questions and concerns about the good and the quality of ATC now. There was a time when we couldn't imagine our city without ATC. Now? I wouldn't miss it in the least if it were gone - but my preference would be for ATC to remain and engage itself with some challenging endeavors worthy of general standing and resources. Artistic stagnation and programmatic formula is ruling the roost there right now.

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