| Re: "The Rodeo roundup continues," Jeff Kubik, Theatre, Jan 18-24, 2007.
Since when does a theatre critic leave halfway through a play and call himself a reviewer? I am referring to Jeff Kubik's recent rant over the Dead Elvis Cabaret during the High Performance Rodeo. Bragging he followed curator Michael Green out the Big Secret Theatre's doors, he set a new low for journalism standards. Did he have a deadline to meet? No, he made it clear it was disdain and disgust for the performance that caused his early departure.
Had he stayed, he might have understood the pacing involved in the cabaret, which culminated an evening of ambitious entertainment with dancing girls and gospel tunes.
I am not impartial in my indignation. These were my talented friends mounting this one-night show. They worked hard for the applause that the critic never noticed. Perhaps he needs to sit through more experimental theatre in order to honour the "compare and contrast" part of reviewing. A good writer puts a work of art in context with its genre, personal dislikes aside.
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