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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (75839)	9/29/2003 6:36:18 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I have to agree with both of you. Yes, it's a lead, so be grateful for what you get. But also, yes, the romantic lead is often much less interesting to play than a quality villain (not the Perils of Paulike kind, but the Iago kind). My father used to support all sorts of little theaters in NYC, and would go to one or two of those every week. When I was visiting him, he would take me. Personally, I found them for the most part uninteresting. They seemed to me to be mostly trying to challenge convention without any sense of why they were challenging it or what they expected to prevail in its place. (IME, challenging conventions, if successful, merely leads to the establishment of different but usually not better and often worse conventions. Sometimes what we replace conventions with is an improvement, but not often, and IMO not even usually.) Anyhow, frankly I had my fill of that sort of thing. Give me a good Shakespeare production, or, for relaxation, a top notch Gilbert and Sullivan. Season with Greek Drama, every now and then an Checkov, O'Neill, etc., a Noel Coward interlude for pure fun, and I'm pretty much a happy clam.