Re: RAT Re dramaturgy

[nick <nick@nickspix.com>]

At 01:16 PM 11/29/00 EST, DgSWEET@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 11/29/2000 1:13:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>nick@nickspix.com writes:
>
><< The word is playWRIGHT.  As in wheelwright or shipwright.  To build
> something concretely in reality.  
> 
> Never heard of the act "playwriting", but I'm sure that like masturbation,
> it's possible that it could be construed as an honorable, solo effort.
>  >>
>
>"Playwright" is the noun.
>"Playwriting" is the activity.
>
>This is the way the words are used at the Dramatists Guild, including in its 
>publication, THE DRAMATIST.
>
>"Playwrighting" -- though listed as an acceptable alternate spelling in some 
>dictionaries, is not employed by any professional playwright I know.
>
>----------------------------------
>Jeffrey Sweet
>Resident Playwright, Victory Gardens Theatre
>Faculty, Actors Studio at the New School
>Council, the Dramatists Guild of America
>DGSweet@aol.com
>www.jeffreysweet.com
>

I'm so glad that the professional pedant remains a part of the audience here.

Of course I was suggesting a poetic distinction between wrighting and
writing, not a literal one.  And that any writing without a reader or
audience or production as its endgame is an act of masturbation. 

Which is not to cast aspersions on masturbation, an honorable solo effort
in its own wright.

--nick