[NEohioPAL] Criticism-Requiescat In Pace.

[Tom Kerr]

wow...my wife and daughter were stunned and amazed at your response.  I only wrote a couple of sentences.  I inspired a thesis...
T.


--- On Sat, 1/24/09, Ensemble Theatre <ensemble-theatre at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Ensemble Theatre <ensemble-theatre at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Criticism-Requiescat In Pace.
> To: neohiopal at listserve.com, kulturekids at yahoo.com
> Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 12:47 AM
> Mr. Kerr, 
>  
> Yes, I also enjoyed the 'criticisms' on commentary,
> and vice versa. 
> But even if it is true, as your uncle Walter said, that
> criticism is no longer needed
> or valued, what is getting just too painful to watch is the
> slow dying, and death of the very craft and profession that
> spawns the life of critics - live theatre performances. 
>  
> It is like the honey bees, and the frogs, and the glaciers
> - vital and necessary elements of our living and breathing,
> natural living essences that are disappearing - vanishing
> from our
> everyday lives with a rapidity that forms a large lump in
> our throats, and an 
> even larger vacuum in our hearts and souls. Live theatre is
> humanity's mirror -
> enacted within the very same darkened chamber where our
> real emotions, dreams, 
> and nightmares are created and perceived, for joy or for
> terror. Every culture
> on the planet needs to measure themselves, for sheer bliss
> or for utter anguish.   
>  
> There can never be a substitute for human contact within 25
> feet, and 
> sometimes much, much closer.If you think there is, it
> is no longer human.
> No wonder that critics are a vanishing breed - they are
> like koala bears
> in a forest with no eucalyptus plants- pelicans without
> fish, and. . oops!!.
>  . . .here we go again. ..critics without plays. 
>  
> If 'nasty, brutish and short' is a description of
> life, no matter who said it, 
> why art then? Why theatre, or dance, or poetry or any
> form of beauty or
> grace that firmly puts the lie to the naysayers, the
> nihilists and, for the
> younger ones among us, the' dark force?'
>  
> Technology is replacing human culture from a 'path
> that twisted in the woods'
> to an eight lane expressway.What Borgian monstrosity will
> appear next
> to swallow whole the flower of human creativity, as it has
> already attacked
> the natural world with its lethal consequences and
> vanishing species? 
>  
> "Straighten up and fly right," as the song says
> now -  but what song or beautiful phrase
> will attract you to look up - and what breeze of air will
> bear you aloft? 
>   
> Martin Cosentino
>  
>  
> 
> --- On Fri, 1/23/09, Tom Kerr <kulturekids at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> From: Tom Kerr <kulturekids at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] Criticism
> To: neohiopal at listserve.com
> Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 5:29 PM
> 
> I've enjoyed the commentary on criticisms (or vice
> versa).
>    It's becoming a moot point, though.  My uncle
> (Walter Kerr) said to me
> shortly before he died in 1996:
>    "My breed is dead, or near death.  We are no longer
> valued or needed. 
> Though, of course, we should be both."
> 
> Tom Kerr
> 
> 
>       
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