Re: RAT ticket expiration and dramaturgs

[TimNGail@aol.com]

It sounds as though you prefer a very hierarchal relationship, rather than 
one based on a collaborative effort.  Not that either is better or worse - 
simply different.  In developing our new work, we work with playwrights, 
directors, designers, actors, and yes, dramaturgs, in a collaborative 
environment.  To label a dramaturg as an "assistant" belittles the 
contribution they provide to the creative process.  To think that no one 
except those who wear the "Kiss Me - I'm a Playwright" t-shirt have anything 
to contribute to the creation of new plays or original work and to deny 
contributors such as dramaturgs their "citizenship" is simply arrogant - it 
suggests that there is only one model toward creation.

tim
funkopolis...
aka - Dramaturg-loving Nazi

In a message dated 11/28/00 7:02:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
MFarkash@aol.com writes:

<< I appreciate you may have had some wonderful experiences with dramaturgs, 
but 
 I'm  very suspicious of the need of an intermediary between director and 
 playwright. That's one more level of potential misunderstanding.  A 
 playwright ought to be paired with a director he/she can work with.  
 Eliminate the middlepeople.  As far as a "helper," I'd love to find one to 
 help me research and bolster my structure -- an assistant. Wish I had the 
 money to hire one. (I'm leery of being "assigned" an assistant.) >>