There was an interesting post on Elizabeth Maupin’s blog the other day about the role of audience as critic. She’d cited an article about when/why/how to give feedback to artists; the article indicated that few audience members feel comfortable sharing their ideas with the creative team.
It occurred to me that our site could be a place for that. We’re a few people who know what we like and don’t like, and happen to be sitting on some quality education. We’re not functioning here as formal critics (though we have a former professional theater reviewer in our mix), just as an audience with thoughts to share.
The bigger question, I think, is whether or not the artists we may be discussing WANT to be critiqued, or if they’ll give a hoot about it. Could be a mixed bag? Maybe they want whatever feedback they can get? Or maybe they don’t care what some random people have to say. I guess we’ll just try to be respectful, and let our readers (if we have any yet?) do what they will with it.
