Boys Dont Make Passes at Girls with Glasses
Seen at the Rarig Center for Youth Pasors in the Arena at 10pm on August 5th. This show was a rather let down. I guess i had higher hopes for what i thought that the fringe would crank out. I dont mean to demean but i think that reading from scrips is something that we all leave behind in 4th grade. I was disapointed at the lack of anything within this show and wondered how it was that they were in the fringe show. Memorize the show for god sakes. I mean how old are we now? The story's were interesting and some were captivating but it really hung me that there wasnt any effort within this show. i found myslef checking my watch till the end. i gave it a .5 for lack of effort.
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Hi C -- thanks for giving us a chance! We know spoken word isn't everyone's bag so of course we don't expect to please everyone, but we're glad you found some of the work "interesting" and even "captivating" -- if some of our writing captivated you, that's a great compliment.
I did want to draw your attention to a blurb printed in our program, which addresses in part your question about "Memorize the show for god sakes. I mean how old are we now?"; an excerpt of local paywright Matthew Everett's reaction to our show last year:
"Laura and Curt perform their stories with the words on sheets of paper in front of them, on music stands, to which they occasionally refer, as many spoken word performers do. This seems to bewilder some people. 'Didn't they bother to memorize their lines? Isn't this theater?' Well, to be simplistic about it, no and no. This isn't the kind of theater where the actors are pretending to be somebody else whose thoughts spring from their mind and out of their mouth as if the playwright didn't exist. There is no fourth wall. There is no alternate reality. The words are the point. The words need to be in front of them, not as a crutch, but as a reminder to the audience that this is about the crafting of language on a page... The music stands are the point. They're supposed to be there."
I look forward to reading more about your experiences at Fringe!
Curt (TrueEnough)
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