Response to Mady Schutzman, TO, and Community based theater

I'll admit it, I am a cynical man. Most of the time I'll take opposition to something just for the mere fact that I like to argue. I LIKE community-based theater. I think its a great idea to use the performing arts to help people out of their problems or to help them open up and bloom into the people that we all have the potential to be. The problem I find with community-based theater is that it begins to sound preachy some of the time. Many people go into helping others really to help themselves and often times it shows. As for this particular piece of work, I think that CAP, and Plaza de la Raza did a splendid job encouraging the community especially the youth to further explore the history that we all think we know. Giving youth a chance to do any sort of creative and engaging work is the key to the future.

-Sam