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..."
RE: David Meadows
Fri, 15 Mar 2002, 04:06 pmWhy, pray, if you have such an objection to David responding in an impassioned way to postings (which you interpret as being rude and arrogant) is it perfectly acceptable for you to do the EXACTLY same thing, only in a far more personally insulting, public, rude, arrogant manner?
I work with kids - if I don't want them to behave in a certain way, I don't behave that way myself.
If you don't want to see David actively participating in a healthy debate, then email him personally and express your concerns about his manner so as not to a) publicly encourage him to get (in your opinion) more offensive and b) make yourself look like a hypocrite. I refer you back to to Grant's allusion to 'look at the kettle calling the pot black'.
Amanda Chesterton
I work with kids - if I don't want them to behave in a certain way, I don't behave that way myself.
If you don't want to see David actively participating in a healthy debate, then email him personally and express your concerns about his manner so as not to a) publicly encourage him to get (in your opinion) more offensive and b) make yourself look like a hypocrite. I refer you back to to Grant's allusion to 'look at the kettle calling the pot black'.
Amanda Chesterton