tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672013373020085991.post8931291221871815565..comments2023-09-13T02:47:23.471-07:00Comments on Cowboys and Bohemians: 'For Brenda, Vince, Aurel, and Gerry, Once We Were Kings'Bohemian Cowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106578522099021236noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672013373020085991.post-1961035178451279722010-01-06T13:50:04.545-08:002010-01-06T13:50:04.545-08:00Raymond you have exorcised out of my artificial fo...Raymond you have exorcised out of my artificial forced retirement important memories of my many years in theatre. The story of theatre is theatre itself. A story many people don't understand or even know about, especially critics. Theatre has its own special God, it's own special Spirit, and to become acquainted with the Spirit is a rare and wonderful gift which only the performer can enjoy.<br /><br />I was associated for many years with the Cricle Rep Lab in NYC where all we did were new plays. Excellent actors, most of them working actors, we pushed our best talent and artistry through the grid of a script that had never been done before, discovering its beauty and strength, and its importance. Sometimes some of them, but by no means the best, would go on to Broadway. But that was superfluous. Otherwise we were, as you say, ignored.<br /><br />Please write your book Raymond. We need it.<br /><br />DBDBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09144446186279708019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672013373020085991.post-832009388031279962010-01-05T23:14:13.926-08:002010-01-05T23:14:13.926-08:00Yeah, I got there just near the end. Too bad, I wo...Yeah, I got there just near the end. Too bad, I would have loved it.Chuckhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17782141434809753377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672013373020085991.post-71765496318944202652010-01-05T17:18:25.264-08:002010-01-05T17:18:25.264-08:00The story you tell is the story behind the story a...The story you tell is the story behind the story and needs to be known. How could people know what actually happened...was happening when the play went on. <br />As we link to the world, we need to know what becomes important. This is a novel you should write as only you can. Keep remembering!<br />(interesting that the word today is rembr)kanyonland King 2.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09889895547932287411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672013373020085991.post-9904919271787341672010-01-05T15:46:38.017-08:002010-01-05T15:46:38.017-08:00I am already excited by the book you will be able ...I am already excited by the book you will be able to write about the history of Playwrights Theater Company, because you lived it! I have thought how so many times if the newspaper's theater critic does not see the opportunity to bring life to a community by featuring the work of local playwrights, it can be as though it never happened, but all of us who got our plays up know that it did happen. There were a lot of theater critics covering the beat the time with the afternoon paper, The Phoenix Gazette, still in existence and covering theater, as well as the Mesa Tribue whose theater critic, Max McQueen, never missed a production once he started coming. The coverage and the reviews were hit and miss. It was as though the 'hard boiled' newspaper people could not relinquish their skepticism about the talent being out there to embrace our nerve and conviction that we could develop and stage great plays with great themes, and whether they believed it was happening or not, we did it! People who did not see enough of the work will think your history is fiction, which makes me laugh because so many of us can bear witness that this was the most exciting period of our playwright lives...Gerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771917880182186281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672013373020085991.post-42652711562575009662010-01-05T13:45:01.601-08:002010-01-05T13:45:01.601-08:00"...we were warriors, we were theatre kings a..."...we were warriors, we were theatre kings and queens. We did the impossible, and only 'we' who experienced it know, and some small part of the universe..."<br /><br />So you still are.carolinehttp://womanontheverge.typepad.com/fibertribenoreply@blogger.com