Arts organizations are generally under a fair amount of pressure to inspire and engage young audiences- the “next generation,” as it were.
So how are we doing on that “metric?”
How about I let the kids speak for themselves? The following quotes are excerpted from a series of blogs posted by a group of Mt. Hood Community College students after seeing Frost/Nixon as an assignment for their theater appreciation class. You can read the full posts right here.
” I was expecting the show to be very long, boring, and confusing. However, I was pleasantly surprised. I was able to not only understand the show, but enjoy it as well.”
“Bill Christ made me hate him, he played a part well done. I actually forgot several times that he was not the actual ‘Richard Nixon’ he is just that good. From the tone of his voice to the way he carried himself I felt that I was meeting the real man. I had essentially no knowledge of the history of the scandal with the water gate (sic) crisis, nor did I understand why Nixon was so hated as a person and a political activist.”
“In just a split second the emotion could go from sad and forlorn, with slow music and dark lighting to an upbeat British talk show with phycadelic lights and funky music. With so much ebb and flow of the play, this really gave quite a bit of interest to the work. ”
“For me, Frost/Nixon was a huge surprise of a play, it kept me hooked in from beginning to end, without me having to look at the time on my cell phone, as if to say, ‘Ugh…when is this going to be over?’”
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