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Friday, March 8, 2013

Theater The Snail-Mail Troll Strikes Again!

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:28 PM

I've got no time for anonymous internet trolls, but something about anonymous letter-writers still holds a dank, creepy place in my dank, creepy heart.

Two weeks ago, I got a cryptic letter about a form rejection sent to actors who'd auditioned for Middletown.

who knows?

Yesterday, Intiman artistic director Andrew Russell got a cryptic letter decrying his praise for Satori Group's new show reWilding. (The letter writer is bananas, by the way. The show is a pleasingly bizarre, quasi-Lynchian experiment in an indoor forest. A profile of Satori is here and a review of reWilding is here.)

I'm no fontologist—but the type, syntax, and liberal use of scotch tape seem suspiciously similar... Who could it be?

AND WHERE WILL THE SNAIL-MAIL TROLL STRIKE NEXT?

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Just be glad the letter didn't come coated with a thin white powder.

The snail-mail troll needs to learn about public Internet access.

Posted by floater on March 8, 2013 at 5:48 PM

It's almost impossible to handle scotch tape without gluing images of little bits of your fingerprints to things.

Hey, anonymous snail-mail troll, go buy a glue-stick. The results are more aesthetic, too.

Posted by Brooklyn Reader on March 8, 2013 at 6:46 PM

if i'm reading this correctly (assuming snail-mail troll WROTE it correctly, which is a big leap), they are decrying the act of recommending theatre, not the theatre itself. how idiotic can you get? word-of-mouth is the single-handed best marketing tool any theatre can utilize. russell knows this. we know S-NT wasn't cast at ACT, maybe Intiman didn't like them either?

Posted by bauhaus junkie on March 8, 2013 at 7:02 PM

My my... how 1970's kidnapping drama of them. I feel like I'm watching a movie about the Zodiac Killer.

Posted by Tacoma Traveler on March 8, 2013 at 7:27 PM

Netflix just renamed Queues to Lists.

Take that you bloody limeys!

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on March 8, 2013 at 9:21 PM

I love living in a city where someone cares enough about theater to be creepy about it.

Posted by chaseacross on March 8, 2013 at 10:12 PM

Wow. Time and effort taken and made for an audition rejection letter.

How times have changed.

Posted by Laurence Ballard

on March 9, 2013 at 3:27 AM

@2, you can totally see the edges of two fingerprints in the bottom piece of tape. And probably one in the top strand as well. Nice catch.

@7, yeah, that was nice in a way.

Posted by Sandiai on March 9, 2013 at 4:55 AM

That's adorable.

Posted by ScrawnyKayaker on March 9, 2013 at 5:23 AM

Now, the response to The Satori Group is one thing, and I'm almost glad to hear their new work is causing such a strong response (can't wait to see it!). But for one of the big houses to be using a group rejection letter to auditioners? That's just tacky, and maybe it warrants the scoff. Lastly, if he's going to get this kind of notoriety, he's gonna need a better buzz-name with a little more oomph, like The Scotch Tape Scowler, or The Curmudgeonly CapsLock Critic, or Sceneless in Seattle, or something like that.

Posted by kukl on March 10, 2013 at 12:58 PM