Todd Allen wrote:
We're big, and we're a new concept. People are going to criticize us, that just comes with that territory. Some of them are going to be professional about it, and may even turn out to offer highly constructive criticism that we should carefully consider. Some of them are going to be impolite about it, but still might every so often be right. And some are going to be just plain vicious.
This is key. It represents the difference between functioning as a small tight-knit community, and operating in a globally based theatre. The intolerability of certain actions in a small community does not scale into one's dealings with the whole world. I sometimes wonder whether some of us have really grasped the implications of bigness.
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