Mixtape Post Number II

We can and do experience Mixtape via the individual works and via its whole. We can appreciate and talk about and understand its pieces and/or its overall effect. But I must be careful. By overall effect I do not mean the sum of its pieces. They don't add up that way. Perhaps I mean something like general overall set-up and premise vs each topical episode. Whatever the terms or descriptions you should know that I mean them as two unique concepts, related but not always influencing each other. One one hand we have Matt Walley and Angela Horchem who have come to the stage to perform. On the other hand we have the individual works themselves that they actually show us. No matter how much some performers might want to strip away personality and personal identity from their work (and I'm not implying that Matt and Angela do) they can never, ever, ever, ever, in a hundred thousand million years make that happen. It is worldly impossible. Personality is one-third of the deal which the spectators get. You can't make it go away. And the sooner many actors realize, accept, and embrace this fact, the better they will be. And so in this overall effect I see Angela (female she is) cleaning, working, feeling, thinking, suffering, busy, sometimes frantic, changing, I see Matt (male he is) looking for help, wanting sympathy, joking around, hoping, rarely changing. Not to sound stereotypical, but there it is in front of us. And as spectators we identify, understand and appreciate the dichotomy. It is one part of human nature made evident to us in this show, and also one of the "easier" parts of the show to take in intellectually.