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...McGanney makes two points. She argues that the conservative elite has a "strategy" to keep the Ex in the hands of directors who "enjoy its 'favor'." Second, she laments that the Ex no longer produces "off-the-wall things that don't get put up in the houses." Let us first consider the plays that earn Ex slots...
...McGanney first notes that the Experimental Theater should do "experimental" plays; she would settle a complex argument by calling on the power of a name. By her logic, she will be quite content if we change the name to the Elite Theater. But I don't think changing the name would help. The name argument is clever, if specious, window dressing...
...McGanney then notes that only the Ex receives money from the University. For this reason, she argues, the Ex should support theater that would not find funding anywhere else. One of several criteria for choosing Ex shows should be consideration of University support. But would McGanney feel her tuition better spent were she able to see six dreadful productions of "experimental" plays...
What, though, does McGanney mean by "experimental"? I imagine the authors of March of the Falsettos would be surprised to hear themselves labeled conservative. How about the shows she does not list? Is Jim's, for instance, "experimental" because it was written by a student...
...HRDC's "strategy". Elite, favor, elect: these words run through McGanney's article. Yet how does she know who is in my "favor"? Has she, over our lunch meetings, looked deep into my soul and seen to its finest detail the bias I wield over my intellect? Does she know which directors have worked during my tenure, and my relationship with them? She uses fighting words, and she had best have strong proof to back them...