Midnight's Broken Toe

We may be undergrads who don't posess the same deep and meaningful understanding of and appreciation for Shakespeare that you obviously have. But we're only three blocks up the hill from the American Shakespeare Center, which tells me that a production of Romeo and Juliet would be a tad redundant. And we may hold our productions in a blackbox; we may allow freshman to be in our casts and crews; we may take advantage of our own gender so we can borrow furniture from creepy, horny septuogenarian men; but we do a damn good production with what we've got.

Henceforth, any Shakespeare snobs caught asking me or anyone else in the theatre department if it is worth your precious time to come see the culmination of our hard work, you will be dragged to the prop shop, where your scrotum will  be torn off...and, conversely, any offender without a scrotum will have one permanently attached to her.

This is a theatre --not a god damn high school drama club, and any educated person who feels he/she can not abide by this concept or these new regulations had better get out, NOW.

There will be no second warning. Copies of this notice will be posted in every corridor and they SHALL NOT BE DEFACED.

I give you the Cheap Art Manifesto:

"People have been thinking too long that art is a privilege of the museums and the rich. Art is not business! It does not belong to the banks and fancy investors. Art is food. You can't eat it but it feeds you. Art has to be cheap and available to everybody. It needs to be everywhere because it is the inside of the world. Art soothes pain! Art wakes up sleepers! Art fights against war and stupidity! Art sings Halleluja! Art is for kitchens! Art is like good bread! Art is like green trees! Art is like white clouds in blue sky! Art is cheap! Hurrah!"

Sincerely,

Sammy Samuel,

Lighting Designer/Master Electrician

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