Preach to the converted.Because much political theater is community-based, we don't hear about many worthy productions that use theatrical forms for social parody and satire unless someone calls them to our national attention. Elizabeth DiNovella's "Wal-Mart Send-Up" describes the homegrown home·grown adj. 1. Raised or grown at home. 2. Originating in or characteristic of a locality: "Rock is homegrown music in the United States, evolved from blues and country and Tin Pan Alley" Madison musical comedy Walmartopia as an effective comic satire of corporate excesses (February issue). But DiNovella ends by suggesting that the musical "may resonate res·o·nate v. res·o·nat·ed, res·o·nat·ing, res·o·nates v.intr. 1. To exhibit or produce resonance or resonant effects. 2. best with those who don't shop at Wal-Mart." The charge of "preaching to the converted" is often leveled at political theater. What the accusation misses, however, is that "the converted" don't all think alike. What's more, "the converted" need their faith and belief shored up by the pleasure and insights of performance. Anyway, can we assume that everyone who shops at Wal-Mart swallows its bunk bunk, bunker large storage bin. bunk forage forage, usually ensilage stored in a large storage bunk and made available to cattle or other livestock along a face of the storage. and has no critique of its everyday low price, anti-labor ideology? The converted and the infidel INFIDEL, persons, evidence. One who does not believe in the existence of a God, who will reward or punish in this world or that which is to come. Willes' R. 550. This term has been very indefinitely applied. are never as monolithic Single object. Self contained. One unit. as we think, especially not when they're in an audience, being entertained and challenged by theater. Jill Dolan Austin, Texas |
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