Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:17:38 -0500 To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Bread Puppet addition >I have volunteered with Bread and Puppet during their summer program and >while on tour for the past three years and I have never experienced anything >but a loving and open atmosphere from the theater. I wonder how many here >who are spouting negativity about the theater's work have actually worked >with the company. All art, including art that prides itself on making political pronouncements, is a legitimate object of diverse and sometimes hostile critique. What difference does it make whether or not the critics have worked with the artists and whether or not the artists are loving people? What is being discussed is the work and how it presents itself. It is a bit gauche and uncouth to try to manipulate its critics into a position of bad-conscience, by branding critical views of B&P's work and its professional decisions as "spouting negativity" - as if criticizing B&P was defeatist or politically incorrect. ><but have always parted favor with their over the >> head with a sledge hammer method of delivering a "message"> > >how is it that mainstream culture and politics do not beat Americans over >the head with their "message" whether it's patriotism or the sexuality of >pop singers? Bread and Puppet circus acts, although they do represent an >alternative political view, are extremely tame compared to most television >that I can recall. Melissa, so what? Is mainstream culture a yardstick for the art we should make? -m _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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