But then they said I could see all the 2018 Humana Festival plays, so I was like, “Sign me up. I’ll figure it out!”
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
How To Be an Artist in a World That Hates You
But then they said I could see all the 2018 Humana Festival plays, so I was like, “Sign me up. I’ll figure it out!”
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I’m not gonna lie, this article had such a strange writing style that I could not stop focusing on. Everything from the format to the one word sentences by themselves, had me completely understand the author’s intentions. I think the part of the article that stuck the most is when he tells his readers to quit. Even if they have an inkling of a thought of quitting, to quit. Which, to me I’ve never had, but I know people that have those feelings and I know people that would be better off if they had quit doing theater a long time ago. But that being said, they will always come back to it, just like this playwright does. I did end up following in the article the story of the man who was detained by the ICE after living in the US for almost 40 years and marrying an American citizen. I think over all this article had a lot of really great perspective, but I don’t know how I feel about the negativity.
This guy is incredible and his story is incredibly inspiring. I took a lot from what he said and though his experience is wildly different from mine I found some relatable truths in his stories. I find it ironic how we can consider the theater world to be the most welcoming of communities, the place where the misfits go. Yet A. Ray Pamatmat found that the theater world was unforgiving and unaccepting to a queer, Filipino man. Yet he persevered and found that his place was doing theater. Something else I learned about from this person was that it is hard to quit doing or being something that is who you are. You can’t quite being a person so instead of wishing you weren’t you or trying to quit, embrace it and use those parts of you to speak to the world so someone else out there can relate and try to understand you and your story. This person couldn’t quite theater because they couldn’t quit being who they were and I think it is so powerful how they utilize theater to battle this world that is considered to hate and them.
I agree with Hannah. This article is written and worded in an odd way. However, it was unclear to me as that style got into the way of my understanding. I think a lot of it has to do with how the person speaks but even still, it isn’t clear and hard to understand. Despite that, I think I get the idea behind it. This man was able to make it in his chosen industry when it looks like it should be impossible. He was disadvantaged from the beginning of his life and that cause a disadvantage in his chosen career but he was able to make it. With this he feels like the world hates him but still he loves the world. He talks about his life and how he did this but what I am not getting is where is the point of this article? It is titled “How To Be and Artist in a World That Hates You” yet all we get as readers is someone’s bias and life experiences. This isn’t helpful as it seemed it would be but simply his story. That is fine but then it should be clearer and use his experiences if necessary to illustrate rather than tell a story and mold a point into it.
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