making theatre "mainstream"...

a different discussion really. The subjects of "attention span" and "instant gratification" raise their ugly heads. We have gone throuh a period starting in the sixties when first TV then Video now computer games and DVD are making it extraordinarily easy to be entertained with no personal effort in your own home. In all these forms of entertainment most of the decisions are made for you and you only have to sit in your arm chair not go out the front door. I am cheered by the fact that once you get past all the complete crap of fly on the wall TV that costs nothing to produce and keeps actors out of work that the programs doing well are comparatively intelligent. West Wing is extraordinary Television and even if the premises are weak at least Jerry Bruckheimers stuff requires you to switch on your brains occasionally to follow what is going on. Maybe you're right and the effects of this will bring people back to us hoping to have their lives enriched instead of made grubbier by "the Biggest Loser" Oh by the way I think it's the people who watch it who lose the most. Sorry rave over.