Arts and Culture: God of Carnage

[paulhope]

Lest my journaling these past few months make you think my life is now devoted only to work, vulgar leisure*, and ROCKING OUT, I'm going to start a new series of posts called Arts and Culture, whose title is self-explanatory.

A few weeks ago I saw God of Carnage, which is a Broadway play that is famous lately because:

• The guy who played Tony

Comments

[booksoverbombs]

The idea that the audience should be getting their money's worth is, I think, one uniquely lost on the bougie auteur set. Although I'm not sure how well this scales into theater, there's a pretty strong positive correlation between the per capita disposable income of one's social class and the firmness of the belief that the audience is there for the artist and not vice versa.