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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.theater
Subject: Re: New Play:  Knots
Message-ID: <2323@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 11:21:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 11:21:29 1985
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In article <896@reed.UUCP> wab@reed.UUCP (William Baker) writes:
>
>	Well, this is the second time I have
>posted an article wondering what happened to
>all those copies of Knot that I sent out a
>couple of months ago.
>
>Maybe this should be telling me something.

I haven't read Knot(s), so I can't say anything specifically about it,
but recently I attended one of the Playworks series at the Berkeley
Repertory Theatre.  These are plays under development, semi-staged by
real actors and watched by about 50 people.  A discussion follows.

The play we saw was an allegory about the Japanese internment during
WW II.  A young Japanese man who identifies with Godzilla has a
love/hate relationship with his weird white landlady.  I found it
mysogonistic, shallow, and almost totally without merit, and I'm sure
many of the others watching it felt the same way.  Nonetheless, in the
discussion that followed, it was discussed as though it had been a
serious work.  Comments focused on technical or structural points, and
no one even hinted that they thought it was junk.

This a long way of getting around to saying that perhaps the inhabitants
of USENET are too polite to say anything negative about anyone else's
creative efforts { :-) }.

Getting back to Knots, perhaps the 
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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