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Re: RAT Re dramaturgy
wow, you know, there is this amazingly smug tone to
some of these communications. like, what's being said
here, that one person's opinion is less valid because
he's got professional credits or likes to include his
bona fides in his communications? there's been a kind
of hipper-than-thou thing on the rat list for some
time now and it's really bush league. when you talk
to jeff sweet, you're talking to someone who knows the
history of theatre inside and out, who has done more
to promote playwriting and theatre of the fringe than
most people, and maybe for one minute you ought to
pull back from your lonely tower of self-wonderfulness
and get some perspective.
this whole discussion has been fascinating, hasn't it?
there's thems what don't need dramaturgs and aren't
afraid to show how superior they are to the whole
thing, and then there's the rest of us who kind of
think theatre is a continually evolving collaborative
art form that should be inclusive and embracing of all
voices, and so are willing to put up with the
self-superior ones--until they start to get really
stupid and insulting.
i mean, what is it all about now--signature blocks?
wow.
michael wright (signature block included below, a
number of lines long)
-- nick <nick@nickspix.com> wrote:
> Sorry Sweetie,
>
> I got my adjectives and nouns mixed up. I meant to
> say pedantic
> professional, not professional pedant.
>
> And I don't mean to be rude, exactly. It's just
> that you're not my ideal
> reader. Too many lines in your email signature.
> Nothing left to speculate
> on.
>
> --nick
>
>
> At 03:14 PM 11/29/00 EST, DgSWEET@aol.com wrote:
> >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.
> >
> >----------------------------------
> >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
> >
> >
>
>
=====
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