Dear sirs:
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First off, if Carol Burbank had read her press release, she would have known that she wasn’t going to see Attack of the Killer Tampons, but instead, an innocent romp through the budding womanhood of three young girls. Her disappointment that these characters were not “drag-inspired” leads me to wonder that if everything we did at the Factory Theater was drag, what happens to the women of the theater? How could she assume that the topic of menstruation would be best portrayed by guys in cheap wigs? That she refers to menstruation as “an embarrassing rite of passage” is sad. Perhaps her memories are clouded.
As an artist, I put my heart on the line every time I open a new play, and I find it mind-boggling when a critic spends a majority of the review either writing about themselves or complaining about the temperature of the theater. Hey, gang, guess what? The review is not about the critic, it’s about the performance! If a review contains the word “I” 27 times then somebody needs to reread their job description.
- Avoid going on about how clever you are.
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