Cases and a solution for theatre Glendon

Cases: literally the worst play I have ever been a part of.

I'm sorry if you are insulted, but try to be objective, it was an awful mess. It was completely inaccessible to audiences because the sheer lack of understanding and research by the majority of its actors, writers and designers caused the play to have no real world or historical context and it failed as political theatre because it was so inaccessible. The few audience members who actually got anything out of it were the rare few people who just found parts of it funny enough for the play as a whole to be entertaining, and that is a huge failure. Really though, the play should have been about the students in the class learning about political theatre and the motivations and ideas of artists like Kharms, and not about entertaining an audience, and I really don't think anyone in the class benefited academically, not if the product of their labour, that being what eventually became Cases, is any indication.

I'm glad a fucked up mix of my laziness and anxiety and Fucktard's conspiracy against me worked in unison to have me replaced as narrator. I would be embarrassed beyond belief to be the public face of something so God awful. Being in the band gave me the minimum distance necessary from the rest of the play to keep me from slitting my wrists in shame by association.

Theatre Glendon is beyond repair, it needs to be completely rebuilt. It is lousy joke and most of the people on the inside refuse to accept that they aren't universally respected for their creativity and talent, real or not.

The solution is tripartite, but mostly boils down to eating a big slice of humble pie:

1) Stop taking everything so seriously. There is no place for your hypocritical and incomplete "professionalism" in a place like Theatre Glendon, it makes you look like children wearing their parents clothes. Amatures are amatures, and if you really want to get people involved you need to give up your pretensions and delusions of grandeur and maybe you'll stop scaring away students looking for something fun to do and potential audiences.

2) Recognize that you are what you are, and Theatre Glendon isn't a Fine Arts training program, it is an academic institution. Learning should always be more important than doing.

3) Encourage new ideas, faces, genres, ideologies, aesthetics. As awesome as you might think you and your ideas are, the truth is there is probably somebody just as good if not better than you who'd like a chance too, and he or she will never have that chance if you sabotage the system from the inside to support only your own interests. Ask yourself, "Is it about promoting theatre, or is it about promoting ME?" There is a reason that a major international event such as the Toronto Fringe Festival uses a lottery to choose the acts involved, and that reason is to maximize involvement and discourage insiders from politicizing the event. If something as big as Fringe can give up that control successfully, I don't see why something as small as Theatre Glendon can't.

Keep on Tranglin,
Anthony