always let the audience sting themselves with bees

Good advice from Jonathan Harris’ fourth grade teacher, Baz:

“I was trying to impress the audience with smart answers to life’s big questions,” he said. “It was all hype. But then I realized I didn’t have the answers to life’s big questions, and instead of writing plays that pretended to, I had to write plays that simply asked the right questions. I had to bring the audience up on stage with me, include them in the answering.”

Not a million miles away from Russell’s bee-keeping advice:

“Always push the bees the way they want to go”

The rest of Harris’ vignettes are worth a read too.

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