| Am I Alone in This? Bill Bottrell in the January 2001 New Settler |
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that since I had made money, I should be grateful to them. I knew none of your reputation as a producer. I know you strictly as a cabaret artist-that's how I value you. BILL: That's my totally new incarnation. I'm just as pleased not to even think about the old. Cabaret has always been at the cusp of history, and often the most desolate history-the cusping of Nazi Germany-the societal intimacy of cabaret a signal of social or ecological desertification. So that the personalities that emerge in cabaret become a way to absorb those anxieties for the near future. Often that's the calling I see in you as I watch your audiences lose themselves in your performance persona, become larger, gain |
power. BILL: I've just been amazed at how people here have taken to it. And it is by far the most gratifying thing I have ever done and I intend to continue . . . The waitperson-what is that waitperson? BILL: The Waiter is a guy and he's going through the obsequious process of presenting tonights specials and he does it with such sickening sweetness and subservience. I wrote him with my friend David Baerwald, and when you collaborate, you both have your own view of it. My view was that he is a post-modern person who believes that to be a waiter is to act like a waiter, which I think is one of the diseases of our current condition. Instead of being something, people act like it. Like the role or the model that they are |