Theater How Theater Failed America
posted by on January 31 at 12:55 PM
That’s the title of Mike Daisey’s new monologue. Listen to the first six minutes here, in which he makes fun of TCG conferences (“everyone has their oat bran muffin in one hand and their free bagel in the other hand… and they’re dialoguing with each other like if there’s enough dialogue, something will happen”) and people who equate arts funding with good art (“in Sweden, the government just shits money into your mouth, all day long!”), and the title How Theater Failed America (“it’s a sensationalist, graceless, bombastic title—it’s bullshit”).
It’s infuriating, how consistently good Mike Daisey is. Buy HTFA tickets here.
It is difficult to argue that Sweden is a consistently good source of compelling art; even Bergman was too comfortable in the welfare state to produce what he could have if only he had been less comfortable.
Jens Lekman's pretty hot, though.
better or worse than Monopoly?
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