Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
Ray--a wonderful dialog going on between you and Andy--but this
paragraph just leaped out to me, because I've been wondering something
similar--
> It is the job of the Director to decide whether it
> is possible to fascilitate the disfunctional worker in finding
> their role or to seek a role in some other "production." This is
> very important because the firing of a disfunctional worker in an
> artistic production always is very complicated with severe issues of
> empathy and vulnerability amongst the other workers. Handled poorly
> you could make everyone disfunctional. The thought occured to me
> at this moment that even "disfunctional" maybe a role called up by
> the group.
so often dysfunction exists simply because the behavior didn't fit the
script. And it is so hard to change the script, to eliminate the actor,
dysfunction, role--
anyway, thanks for your insight--I'll play with it for awhile.
Doc
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