Globe's Theater Critic's Last Words
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Louise Kennedy, the Boston Globe's theater critic for four years, is leaving to write a book. She wrote a charming farewell, about the good, the bad and the mediocre theater she's seen. Her ending paragraphs struck me:
"....on a good night there’s just nothing else like it. To share space with other people, to go through an aesthetic and emotional and intellectual experience together, is to feel a particular kind of joy that I can find in no other way. The theater is, at its best, a profoundly democratic institution, one that lets us share a private experience in a public space. I didn’t invent that idea — the Greeks did. But I’m grateful that I’ve had this time to discover it for myself, and I hope that, from time to time, I’ve helped you to discover it, too.
I’ll see you at the theater. I’ll be the woman in the cheap seats, with no notebook, smiling."
Louise Kennedy, the Boston Globe's theater critic for four years, is leaving to write a book. She wrote a charming farewell, about the good, the bad and the mediocre theater she's seen. Her ending paragraphs struck me:
"....on a good night there’s just nothing else like it. To share space with other people, to go through an aesthetic and emotional and intellectual experience together, is to feel a particular kind of joy that I can find in no other way. The theater is, at its best, a profoundly democratic institution, one that lets us share a private experience in a public space. I didn’t invent that idea — the Greeks did. But I’m grateful that I’ve had this time to discover it for myself, and I hope that, from time to time, I’ve helped you to discover it, too.
I’ll see you at the theater. I’ll be the woman in the cheap seats, with no notebook, smiling."
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Globe's Theater Critic's Last Words
Date: 2010-08-22 02:50 pm (UTC)Can we offer her a comp to our next show? :)
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Date: 2010-08-23 08:24 am (UTC)