Don’t Sh*t on Your Performance

I recently went to see a production, I won’t discuss who or what or where.  But I was very disappointed. Not in the actor’s performance, not in the show. But in their reaction afterwards.

I complimented their work, I enjoyed it, I didn’t critique it as such, but truthfully told what I felt. In reaction, they told me they didn’t feel it was that good. And they just destroyed my compliment and did a big steaming shit all over my enjoyment.

Later in the week when we spoke again, they told me the show had gotten much better since I saw it. Now they were forcing me to eat their shit. Not only did my enjoyment not count, not only were they tell me that my opinion of their performance was wrong and that they were bad, but that my enjoyment would have been otherwise if I’d come later in the week. Two shits in one week.

Listen Up. We go to support you, we go to enjoy you the show. We don’t want to hear your self-doubts and we don’t want you to lessen our enjoyment with criticism that is really, a subconscious attempt to blackmail even more praise out of us.

When someone compliments your performance, say THANK YOU. If someone says they enjoyed it, say I’M GLAD YOU ENJOYED IT.

Do not let your own insecurities ruin our enjoyment. When you shit all over the performance, you shit all over me.