[ClearCase_guy]

Ms. Freeman, a 22-year-old English and theater teacher [said], "Of course, I worry about it, but I'd rather that theater be provocative than predictable."

And really, that's what theater is all about, is it not? That's why Shakespeare cannot be considered a good playwright. I mean, Romeo and Juliet? They die at the end -- it's sooooo predictable! Clearly, not art.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bumps!

[Our man in washington]

It's amazing how so many people in theater call this form of theater "provocative." Theater now is largely produced by leftists for leftists who somehow think they're making a statement by dressing up leftist cliches.

I'm a conservative playwright, and I've had actors who have participated in readings of my play and then screamed at me afterward. Fellow playwrights have told me that my writing has offensive ideas and would never get produced anywhere. (My plays aren't propaganda, but a viewer could probably tell that I am a conservative.)

I don't worry about the criticism, since adversity is good for the creative process. But after all those experiences dealing with the hostility, it makes me laugh to hear these leftist theater types think they are being "provocative."