How the p-list has warped me.

[chris abraham]

I got to see the DC production, and it was well acted, and the humor of
the piece is delicious and it takes quite an education to divine a lot of
the details (thanks mom, for the education)...

all well and good but when I talked to the cast afterwards, they were
vacant about the import, having come in most part from NYC as hired guns
-- and when i was trying to chat them up as to the import of the fractal
and chaos theory and so forth Q-Mech etc... they said, "er, its only a
part, i memorized the lines, learned the movement, listened to the
director."

It made me sad for a few minutes, then I rejoyced!

chris

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Brian D. McCary wrote:

> This weekend, I got to see the local production of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia".
> In the middle of the second act, we find a nineteenth century literary
> engaged in a bitterly offensive defense of his theory about the events
> surrounding Lord Byron's first flight from England.  After his systematic
> evisceration of everyone on stage and a few people off stage, most of
> the cast was standing around with a stunned look on thier faces, while the
> lead turned to the girl next to her (who, up to that point, had had
> a definite crush on the Byron expert) and comforted her: "There, there
> dear, don't worry.  It's called rhetoric; they learn it at the 
> university.  It's not about what's right, that's what they have philosophy
> for."  (Close, but paraphrased, rendered much more artfully by that
> other master author Tom)  
> 
> No one around me found this as funny as I did.  Thanks, foax, for adding
> so much humour to my life.
> 
> Brian McCary
> 

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