David Meadows
Mon, 11 Mar 2002, 10:44 pmWalter Plinge10 posts in thread
David Meadows
Mon, 11 Mar 2002, 10:44 pmI do not live in Perth, or know anyone involved in professional theatre there, but I feel that I would like to express an opinion on the myriad posts of the above Mr Meadows. Now maybe all the polite people who responded to your various posts cannot come out and say this: as a total outsider I must state that I have rarely seen anyone express such a simplified black and white view of the world. Moreover your treatment, sir, of those who express a dissentind view can be rude anf offhand.
Now you may in fact be a lovely man who wouldn't say boo to a goose, but you come across in your posts as a blinkered, arrogant intellectual snob. Professional v amateur; "safe" theatre v controversial ....there is good and bad on all sides and one should be careful about these ridiculous swingeing generalisations. If you want a defence of simple entertainment for instance, then see Preston Sturges masterpiece "Sullivan's Travels"
If you are the same man as the actor playing Hamlet then I advise you consider the lines
"there is nothing either good or bad
but thinking makes it so..."
Now you may in fact be a lovely man who wouldn't say boo to a goose, but you come across in your posts as a blinkered, arrogant intellectual snob. Professional v amateur; "safe" theatre v controversial ....there is good and bad on all sides and one should be careful about these ridiculous swingeing generalisations. If you want a defence of simple entertainment for instance, then see Preston Sturges masterpiece "Sullivan's Travels"
If you are the same man as the actor playing Hamlet then I advise you consider the lines
"there is nothing either good or bad
but thinking makes it so..."
The Meddoes
Sat, 16 Mar 2002, 12:55 am annon anxiously averred:
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"to Sebastian Melmoth
I KNOW WHO YOU REALLY ARE!!!!!!!!"
And that's enough of that- this site has weathered this kind of storm before.
Say what you like about the man himself- and let's face it, we all do- the question remains "Why so much fuss over one person?"
Is it down to the fact that the Meddoes (as he knows I like to refer to him) is as thouuroughly committed to his beliefs as he is that we raise our eyebrows? Knowing him as I have for 12 yrs (Christ, we're getting old here) this has always been the case. It's part of the parcel. The Meddoes is unique in our circles- I can think of no other person who consistently and willingly puts themselves in the firing line of his peers for his thoughts, ambitions and beliefs. O, that we could have a fraction of the courage of our convictions that the Meddoes has in his.
To paraphrase someone else badly- I don't agree with every single thing the Meddoes says or thinks, but I will die defending his right to air his thoughts.
Eliot McCann
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"to Sebastian Melmoth
I KNOW WHO YOU REALLY ARE!!!!!!!!"
And that's enough of that- this site has weathered this kind of storm before.
Say what you like about the man himself- and let's face it, we all do- the question remains "Why so much fuss over one person?"
Is it down to the fact that the Meddoes (as he knows I like to refer to him) is as thouuroughly committed to his beliefs as he is that we raise our eyebrows? Knowing him as I have for 12 yrs (Christ, we're getting old here) this has always been the case. It's part of the parcel. The Meddoes is unique in our circles- I can think of no other person who consistently and willingly puts themselves in the firing line of his peers for his thoughts, ambitions and beliefs. O, that we could have a fraction of the courage of our convictions that the Meddoes has in his.
To paraphrase someone else badly- I don't agree with every single thing the Meddoes says or thinks, but I will die defending his right to air his thoughts.
Eliot McCann