RE: RAT Famous Playwrights, Mostly Dead

[MMA <Diogenes_@compuserve.com>]

Political correctness has nothing to do with it.  IMHO these are obvious,
conventional choices which could as easily have been made by the most
mainstream, unimaginative artists. They betray little evidence of wide
reading, original (if not to say individualistic or perverse) thought,
boldness, daring, quirkiness, or any of the other things that might rescue
American theatre from the endless succession of tedious and deriviative
seasons it mounts (and laments) with the periodicity of the quartz atom.
They are precisely the sage, safe, well-masticated choices I would expect
of any well-read  high school senior.  They are so far from being wrong
headed that they are banal. And thus, they are the very opposite of free
thought, for they are the purest manifestation of received ideas.

Sir, I put it to you thus:  If our tastes are no better than those of our
dreary forbears, what are we but jejune, querulous, underfunded versions of
their grim treadmill of mediocrity.  For what, precisely, do we have to
offer if not better ideas?

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