I hadn't originally intended to include seeing Nicholas Tesla, I was all typical American, who is THAT guy? Me, I don't know from science. I stopped at 9th grade biology and I faked it in college by taking a nutrition class.
But tonight I'm thinkin Damn, I missed Bertolt Brecht and I'm REALLY pissed that I have an obligation to go to the Column Awards on Monday rather than watch Mike's signature piece.....
but be that as it may, Mike Daisey, for me, has become, in two performances and a few Youtube bits, plus a beautiful online essay by his wife Jean-Michele, a person and artist I am just completely enamored with. He's got a genuinely funny, yet explosive grasp on things artistic.....that American theater has become something about buildings with names on them, and not about the artists who keep the alive. He's not the first person to say that around here, Jac Alder made some beautiful comments in a new mag called "The" awhile back.
The recent opening of the ATT PAC is yet another example.....are these huge "edifice complexes" as Jac coined them, or are they temples, are they churches in which artists can commune, can worship, can create, where audiences can pray and relate and connect what they're seeing with their own lives, with society - which of course, is what theater USED to be, is supposed to be? I don't think we know anymore.
will add to this later after L. Ron this afternoon, very very much looking forward to it.
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