Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2023 October 4

This Is Not A Theatre Company (closed)
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 * This Is Not A Theatre Company – Restored as a contested soft deletion. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:41, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
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Dear Editors,

I see you have deleted This Is Not A Theatre Company. In a soft delete.

From the discussion, it seems that it was deleted because a) you think there are not substantial sources that prove its existence and b) that perhaps you think, because of the title of the company, that it is a joke or a scam? I am writing to request that the page be reinstated. Let me start with the second point first: The name of our theatre company is a reference to Magritte's painting of a pipe which is titled Ceci n'est pas une pipe (this is not a pipe) - the joke being that it's not an actual pipe, it's a painting of a pipe. We do theatre, but we don't do theatre in traditional theatre spaces, so we thought this name would be an appropriate homage. We can state that in the entry if it would be helpful.

Since our inception in 2013 we have produced Pool Play, A Serious Banquet, Readymade Cabaret, Ferry Play, Subway Plays, Festival de la Vie for the Avignon Festival, Versailles, Pool Play 2.0 for the International Theatre Festival of Kerala, Theatre In The Dark: Carpe Diem, Play!, Readymade Cabaret 2.0, Play…In Your Bathtub 2.0 (also translated into Russian and performed by WOWWOWWOW in Moscow), Guru of Touch for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Tree Confessions (starring Kathleen Chalfant) for the Edinburgh, Brighton, Camden, Melbourne, Greater Manchester, Hamilton, Sydney, and Philadelphia Fringe festivals and the Nepal International Theatre Festival, and Adentros y Afueras, Confesiones de un Árbol, y Una Obra en tu Bañera for the International Theatre Festival of Buenos Aires (FIBA). Our productions have been experienced in over 36 countries, including Argentina, Australia, China, England, France, India, Italy, Nepal, Russia, Scotland, and Singapore.

Our work has been reviewed in The New York Times (at least 3 times), Wall Street Journal, papers in Buenos Aires and Kochi, and elsewhere. We have also been mentioned in numerous scholarly articles in journals such as TDR. Those were all listed in our entry - at least the last time I checked. It is possible that some of those citations were deleted and it therefore seemed as though we weren't real.

If possible, I would like the opportunity to update the page with all the recent newspaper reviews, recent productions, mentions in scholarly journals such as TDR, and full chapters devoted to our work in such books as Experiential Theatres published by Routledge (amazon link here: https://www.amazon.com/Experiential-Theatres-Praxis-Based-Approaches-Training-ebook/dp/B0BKNTDGGP/ref=sr_1_7?crid=HFAXBYBQEJZD&keywords=Experiential+Performance&qid=1696456701&s=books&sprefix=experiential+performance%2Cstripbooks%2C56&sr=1-7).

Would you consider reinstating our page and giving us a chance to fix it? If we don't fix it satisfactorily in 2 months, then you can delete it again.

How does that sound?

Many thanks for all that you do, Erin Mee Artistic Director This Is Not A Theatre Company - also a wikipedia editor but I can't find my login and PW info at the moment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:4041:5D10:A000:2518:772B:EB79:C34F (talk) 22:02, 4 October 2023 (UTC)


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