Comments on: Orestes, A Tragic Romp

By: fecunddisbelief

fecunddisbelief — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:50:55 +0000

Inference is not your strong suit. Cheers!

By: Michael Glenn

Michael Glenn — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:45:08 +0000

No, I’m good. I just think if you’re gonna call make a personal attack on someone’s intelligence and motive over what reads as perfectly reasonable criticism, you should have the balls to do it to their face. Kudos!

By: fecunddisbelief

fecunddisbelief — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:14:00 +0000

So Michael… do you ever make posts under a pseudonym. lol What brings you so randomly to these posts after a year? I use a pseudonym only because I am not a raging egomaniac and am merely an interested party. You use your actual name so, what- you can post under other names from time to time and no one thinks it’s you? Who knows, and who really cares. I am just calling a moron a moron.

-Mathias Mainz

P.S. now that you have my name, does that mean we should walk our ten paces? now that I’ve “come out from behind my pseudonym”? does this help you? does this “pick the fight” I’m “obviously raring to have”? Or does it finally end our tete a tete?

By: Michael Glenn

Michael Glenn — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:19:55 +0000

If you know him, why not come out from behind your pseudonym and pick the fight you’re obviously raring to have?

By: fecunddisbelief

fecunddisbelief — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:51:49 +0000

I’m not being rude to you. I’m laughing at your unwitting hypocrisy. I find iggy’s comments toward the male players belittling (e.g. facetious and rude with “Please enjoy the show for the women, but I hope the men are more entertaining on the night you go”) and bizarre (i.e. talk about a minority point of view) and have opined to make this clear. Why is my theoretical scenario bizarre? Perhaps I know who iggy is, thereby giving me more insight into their motives and thus informing my opinion to label him a moron. Also, perhaps you should unpin your morality badge and retire from policing comments and giving quasi-lectures on the nature of art and implication. There- that was rude.

By: Michael Glenn

Michael Glenn — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:13:12 +0000

Oh not at all, you’re entitled to say whatever you wish too, and I guess you’re entitled to be as rude as you want to be while doing it. I just can’t justify calling someone a moron or personally belittling them, much less postulating some bizarre conspiracy theory, for stating their opinion about a piece of theater. That’s all I was implying.

By: fecunddisbelief

fecunddisbelief — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:55:14 +0000

So basically iggy can purport his “opinion” that the men in that show were not good (despite the overwhelming majority of people/reviews that differ from said “opinion” including mine- guess they were all wrong though), but I must endure an IMPLIED lesson from you about not sharing my “opinion” that iggy is a moron as well as the more blatant profession that “art is subjective” (thanks for letting me know that, btw)? How entirely hypocritical that seems. I’ll maintain my original postulate that “iggy” had ulterior motives behind the post while iterating my “opinion” that he is a moron. Thanks, Michael Glenn.

By: Michael Glenn

Michael Glenn — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:42:03 +0000

Art is entirely subjective. One man’s genius is another man’s crap. And the Helen Hayes nominations is no more a validation of quality than a critic’s rave or the praise of a patron in the lobby. So, fecunddisbelief, you may think Iggythegnome is a moron, but he’s not. He has an opinion, and it’s absolutely valid. And so is yours. There’s plenty of room in this world for both outlooks.

By: fecunddisbelief

fecunddisbelief — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:58:04 +0000

Even though this was a year ago, I just HAVE to say this on the evening the HH noms have come out. iggythegnome=moron The men were weak? That’s laughable and I would wager the poster knew this to be false. One of the men played 4 characters with such variance of voice and movement I had to look at my program to see if there was another actor and the guy playing Orestes had an IMMENSE amount of passion and ferocity. I saw the show three times!!! Sounds like someone was just trying to stir up some negative feeling. Shame on you, iggy. Fail. lol

By: Emily sway

Emily sway — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:44:07 +0000

The choice of Deus ex machina was awful. Poor directorial choice.

By: iggythegnome

iggythegnome — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:44:49 +0000

I saw the show this past Tuesday and absolutely loved the Chorus!! All the women of the Chorus stood out at different times but really it was their power, beauty and harmony as a group that made this an awesome experience for me. I would return to the show to see their performances again. I would also enjoy seeing Holly again. She was wonderful! So much detail and commitment. But I must say I disagree with the critic about the other actors. I thought the men were pretty weak and did not make bold enough or engaging enough choices of movement and voice for their characters. Orestes, although raging by the end, did not convince me that he was tormented by furies or the three fates at the beginning of the show. There just wasn’t enough depth to Orestes, nor Menelaus, in my opinion. So please, see this show for the women, but I hope the men are more enjoyable on the night you go.

By: Ernie Joselovitz

Ernie Joselovitz — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:35:30 +0000

I am anxious to see this production. Euripides’ ORESTES has long been a favorite play of mine, very popular in its own day, and I suspect most of the credit for the script should be his, however bright Washburn may be.