christians, atheists, everyone: what's the worst deadly sin and why?

[Pica Pica]

it could be worse, they could be bashing the Brecht, or entertaining with Artuad. As much as continental philosophy bores the trousers off me, theatre theorists are much worse. Besides, everybody gets Brecht wrong anyway.

(And as a philosophy graduate and one time caretaker of a student theatre, I've had plenty opportunities for comparison)

[tekla]

As a union stage hand we all joke that we love theaters but loathe The Theater.  Lucky, that stuff stays far away from us as its pretty much death by box office.  And a long, very long, and very slow (and well deserved at that) kind of death.  No blockbuster for St. Joan of the Stockyards for sure.  And... I think he did one entitled The 7 Deadly Sins (I'm not sure if it was actually about the 7 deadly sins, I'm sure no one knows, as that would entail sitting through the entire performance and listening, icckk.)

I'm sure that somewhere between poetry readings, open mic nights and Waiting for Godet there is an 8th Deadly Sin.

[Pica Pica]

waiting for godot is the eigth deadly sin (unless you're really poncy. Then it's Rhinoceros).

[tekla]

I ran lines with some girl once for EndGame (the things we do for cheap sex) and it was very horrible.  Except for the line "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."  I don't think she ever understood that line. 

[Pica Pica]

yeah, I like theatre really, wouldnt have care-tuck otherwise.

[tekla]

No one makes their life work doing theater if they don't like "The Show" in some form or another.  What is a 'good' show, or a 'bad' show is - like all artistic values, subjective at best. 

But if Waiting for Godet is the 8th deadly sin, then here is the 9th.  Anything with kids.  Making either The Sound of Music, or The Kind & I, a direct portal to the gates of hell.

[tekla]

I'm just looking at in terms of staging, and out of all of them Oliver is the worst, its got what, 3 adults and a ton of kids.  If you have ever had to work a show with a lot of kids you would rather be the snake wrangler for Snakes on a Plane.

Any - ANY - judgment on art is subjective.  Always.  There is no universal agreement.  For sure SS sold more books that TP did.  And V and Gravity's Rainbow are awesome, some of his others, not so.  And what's wrong with the Patty Duke Show and I Dream of Jennie?  Of course, the only time TP's voice was ever heard on TV was in an episode of The Simpsons (twice).

[tinkerbell]

ha ha ha ha   a mind game?  ok i'll play...imo, i think it's counterproductive pride.
you're something else, you know? ha ha

You were the only one who got it.  This is why I missed you so much when you were absent

BTW Tink,  I am stupid, pretentious, and forgetful.

Cindi

Stupid?  you build wonderful things, Cindi.  You can't be stupid hon.  Pretentious?  The Cindi Jones I know and who I consider my friend isn't pretentious.  Forgetful?  I don't think so either Cindi.  Love ya!

tink