GONE WEST.(Brief Article)

Okay, I'M OUTTA HERE. THIRTY-ONE YEARS is enough. I get the general idea. It's time to make way or a new generation, but I would be shirking my responsibility if I didn't pass on the Twenty-Five Sacred Laws that each retiring artistic director is supposed to leave, handwritten, in the center drawer of the office desk--only sometimes we forget.

Nobody knows where they came from; a lot of people think they began with Bill Ball and Adrian Hall, whoever they were. Before I cut to the chase, a word of encouragement: Don't worry, young people, anybody can do this job. Only a genius could ...

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