Re: RAT Re dramaturgy

[DgSWEET@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/29/2000 2:59:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
nick@nickspix.com writes:

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

Thank you.  I am a professional.  I make most of my living as a playwright.  
I am also a pedant in that, yes, people actually pay me to teach this stuff.  
And seem to be happy to do so since a lot of my students have done pretty 
well.

Notwithstanding the wisecracks, "playwright" is still the noun and 
"playwriting" is still the verb most commonly used by the folks who do this.

>> And that any writing without a reader or audience or production as its 
endgame is an act of masturbation. 

Or possibly an act of hope.  People write for a lot of reasons and out of a 
lot of impulses.  As long as the work turns out well, I don't care what the 
impulses are.

I am sorry you think that to be either a professional or a pedant is 
something worthy of snidery.  But making rude comments about others opens 
yourself up to rude speculations about you by others.  

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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