| re: Brief reports on 10 shows in 6 days | |
| Posted by: portenopete 10:00 am EST 11/11/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Brief reports on 10 shows in 6 days - Ann 09:38 am EST 11/11/24 | |
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| Q&A's are tricky. Many- if not most- audience members want to express their opinions about the show and they often do it in a blunt and forceful way that can be insulting and hurtful. I think it's valid to question why actors and artists are deemed too fragile to stand up (or sit down) to these potential slights, but I know they are because I am one. It's always seemed a bit ethically dodgy to welcome and even seek out positive reaction to your work but balk when it's critical (a word that does not necessarily mean "negative"). Personally I think that post-show chats/Q&A's have become too much of a thing. Maybe we were at the same performance but there was a Q&A after the matinée when I saw THE COUNTER, as well, and I wondered if the two leads (there is a third actor who plays a much smaller role) would be required to do it between shows on a two-day show day. (I know it's short but it is also fairly intense.) I imagine that, being a not-for-profit institution, Roundabout gets grant money for its education division and that Q&A's count as education? | |
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