THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, February 27, 1995 TAG: 9502240024
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
First Mark Mobley, now Mal Vincent.
Both of your theater-arts critics seem bent on destroying the arts in Hampton Roads.
Mark Mobley saw little, if anything, positive about ``Simon Bolivar'' while many of us felt that we were watching history in the making.
Now we have Mal Vincent once again attacking the Virginia Stage Company by describing ``A Perfect Ganesh'' as ``a dark view of a hopeless world.''
Did he see the same play that I and everyone else I spoke to in the theater saw? One wonders, when he seems to have missed the point of the play. He writes that all the trials the two women had endured in their lives made for a ``rather muddled and unstructured play.''
Most people who have lived into their 40s and longer have had to deal with many of those same trials. I found the characters' struggle toward healing and wholeness to be utterly refreshing.
Please find critics who will try to promote, not destroy, art in Hampton Roads.
MARTY ASIRE
Virginia Beach, Feb. 11, 1995 by CNB