tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156077072064203047.post7815896560194257346..comments2024-03-24T03:28:53.863-04:00Comments on Theatre Ontario's Blog: Spiderman And MediocrityTheatre Ontariohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06808015519416116539noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156077072064203047.post-87589899495516630702011-03-11T14:45:10.672-05:002011-03-11T14:45:10.672-05:00Sounds about right. We need to fight what I would...Sounds about right. We need to fight what I would call this "Hollywood Malaise." And the only way to fight it is to support local/small/community and regional theatres that are interested in producing plays about people. People and relationships is what theatre should be about, from Shakespeare through Chekhov, to today. Such a show as you describe here is a sure sign of the bankruptcy of the Hollywood system. It's all technology and trying to impress us with it. It isn't theatre unless it can connect with "ordinary" people. I hope our mostly brain-dead audiences fed on the likes of the kind of "entertainment" that Hollywood provides these days, will wake up, but at the moment this all reminds me of "the feelies" so aptly written about in "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.<br /><br />Mike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com