I simply don’t understand the tone of toxic positivity in this activity. There’s no need to be a cheerleader for designers. They’re being paid thousands of dollars to do a professional task, and work on shows for months or years to get them to a professional level by the time the season starts. Your critiques should be honest, firm, and without unnecessary tiptoeing. Trust me, hand-holding doesn’t happen in professional design and production development meetings.
The Cavaliers show is gasp-inducingly shallow and underdeveloped, and someone has to give them the bad news. Both the designers and the professional staff are afraid to say the central thematic word, gay. Just say it. Avoiding the word gives the entire show a feeling of shame and fear, the opposite of the intended outcome.
The Cavaliers have no subject matter expert or counselor on staff to manage the content of the show and its impact on the marching members, much less create audience-facing public statements on the subject of young adults “revealing who they are underneath”. Everybody knows what truth they are talking about. They’re not talking about their secret genius IQ, or that they killed their identical twin, or that they’re secretly a championship baker. No. Don’t be ridiculous. We all know what they mean.
The faces on the scrims make no sense. Any second rate designer or theater director., or student film director would immediately second-guess such vague photos, and take them through a focus group, and then cut the photos, post haste. Without some context or explanation on or off the field, the photos add more confusion than clarity. The removing of the armor and replacing it with flowing smocks should be intentional and visible. Not something that’s done behind the scrim, or something to be ashamed of. This show is an amateurish, vague, coy, evasive, and dare I say fraudulent offering, deserving of unmasking.
I simply don’t understand the tone of toxic positivity in this activity. There’s no need to be a cheerleader for designers. They’re being paid thousands of dollars to do a professional task, and work on shows for months or years to get them to a professional level by the time the season starts. Your critiques should be honest, firm, and without unnecessary tiptoeing. Trust me, hand-holding doesn’t happen in professional design and production development meetings.
The Cavaliers show is gasp-inducingly shallow and underdeveloped, and someone has to give them the bad news. Both the designers and the professional staff are afraid to say the central thematic word, gay. Just say it. Avoiding the word gives the entire show a feeling of shame and fear, the opposite of the intended outcome.
The Cavaliers have no subject matter expert or counselor on staff to manage the content of the show and its impact on the marching members, much less create audience-facing public statements on the subject of young adults “revealing who they are underneath”. Everybody knows what truth they are talking about. They’re not talking about their secret genius IQ, or that they killed their identical twin, or that they’re secretly a championship baker. No. Don’t be ridiculous. We all know what they mean.
The faces on the scrims make no sense. Any second rate designer or theater director., or student film director would immediately second-guess such vague photos, and take them through a focus group, and then cut the photos, post haste. Without some context or explanation on or off the field, the photos add more confusion than clarity. The removing of the armor and replacing it with flowing smocks should be intentional and visible. Not something that’s done behind the scrim, or something to be ashamed of. This show is an amateurish, vague, coy, evasive, and dare I say fraudulent offering, deserving of unmasking.