NYTimes.com: Even the most audacious actors rarely play a suicide attempt for laughs. But in his acclaimed one-man show “I, Malvolio,” the British performer Tim Crouch flings a noose over a ceiling pipe, slides a chair underneath and blames everyone for his lot in life — audience members included. So will they muster compassion for this character, a puritanical blowhard who has just spent 30 minutes attacking them for a variety of sins, or will they indulge baser instincts and mock him in kind?
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This article has so many little nuggets of truth in it. Targeting a young audience is crucial to the continuation of theatre. If kids develop a love or even a respect for the theatre, then later in life there is a really good chance they will continue to attend and support it. Beyond that, from what the article says, this show is exposing really interesting and thought provoking material. Getting the audience to realize what exactly they were pushed to think is a very interesting and creative change-up. Like "Inception" getting someone to think something by making them realize it themselves is more powerful than merely telling them about it. For a group of high schoolers even a subtle message can lay the base for a strong change.
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