A Reviewer's Small Dilemma
Plotnik and Ducknik were misled by a well-meaning Press Agent last night. They were given tickets to see a "hip-hop circus," which was fun, but nobody mentioned that most of the cast were teens or younger and still learning their crafts. Everybody got his or her chance to perform, and some were very good and some were, well, very young.
After wrestling with the idea of how best to review this show, since, after all, he was given free tickets and is expected to do something for those tickets, Plotnik decided to review it but not rate it. He didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings, especially children, and yet they're charging $12.50-$25 for a ticket. It seems to Plotnik that if this is a fund raiser, someone should say so, or else it should be free or a few bucks at most. You can read the San Francisco Theater Blog review here, but if that kid seven rows back screams again you're going to want to throttle her.
Please comment here, not there, about whether you think Plottie is being fair.
posted by DAK @ 10:28 AM
1 Comments:
As always, you were more than fair. Your review certainly wouldn't keep me from going (combining hip-hop and the circus might though) and would make me feel like a well-educated consumer. Something must be going right with the show to be extended for three weeks though, or am I missing something? (I suspect the meaning of "extending a show" business is more complicated than I know.)
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