THE WORST PALYS YOUVE SEEN
Fri, 26 Apr 2002, 03:30 pmMaria19 posts in thread
THE WORST PALYS YOUVE SEEN
Fri, 26 Apr 2002, 03:30 pmI went and saw an Australian Play Touch Silk at Chester Street Theatre and I must say it is the worst play I have ever seen. one actresss kept forgetting her lines and you could see her searching another was lost in her accent it was terrible to sit through my friends and I had to leave at Inter.
Has any one else ever been to a bad play
Has any one else ever been to a bad play
Re: mitigating argument
Sat, 27 Apr 2002, 06:25 pmI'd just like to qualify a statement I made above, about there being "mitigating circumstances" where you can forgive faults and still be entertained by a bad play.
I cited as an example "highschool productions that haven't done justice to the play". It was brought to my attention (and rightly so), that this appears that I am knocking highschool productions, or that by citing them as my only example I am implying that they will automatically be under par.
I probably would've been more accurate to have said "primary school productions..." (or I could have just as easily said "professional improvised comedy")...really, I was just fishing for an example where the quality of the play or the script is not as important as witnessing the event being performed.
I didn't mean to get into the "highschool/amateur/professional" debate - it's been well discussed that these are not terms that can correlate to definitions of quality.
The friend who pointed this out believes that "if a play is done well, then it is done well." Highschools and amateur groups (and professional companies) shouldn't need to be forgiven for the quality of their work. Hopefully, they are producing good work to the best of their ability.
But my point was that I can actually sometimes be amused by bad work. Perhaps that's just my perverse sense of humour.
Cheers
Craig
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I cited as an example "highschool productions that haven't done justice to the play". It was brought to my attention (and rightly so), that this appears that I am knocking highschool productions, or that by citing them as my only example I am implying that they will automatically be under par.
I probably would've been more accurate to have said "primary school productions..." (or I could have just as easily said "professional improvised comedy")...really, I was just fishing for an example where the quality of the play or the script is not as important as witnessing the event being performed.
I didn't mean to get into the "highschool/amateur/professional" debate - it's been well discussed that these are not terms that can correlate to definitions of quality.
The friend who pointed this out believes that "if a play is done well, then it is done well." Highschools and amateur groups (and professional companies) shouldn't need to be forgiven for the quality of their work. Hopefully, they are producing good work to the best of their ability.
But my point was that I can actually sometimes be amused by bad work. Perhaps that's just my perverse sense of humour.
Cheers
Craig
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