Re: RAT Re dramaturgy meet

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rm et al:

     Sounds like a done deal. Face to face. rm, name a 
date and it happens. If the meet ends up composed soley 
of L.A. area dramaturgs plus Brad that's swell in itself 
- Brad's sweeping through town could help provide the 
event with sufficient precipitate of otherness. And/or 
throw open whatever resources you have (your couch, etc.) 
and see how many people past Brad can make the invite 
work, in our ongoing experiment in potlach production.

     FACE TO FACE IS RAT DRAMATURGY. The labor of meeting 
= our way of reading. Hospitality's revolution of the 
heart is the essential reversal, and mercy replaces 
catharsis... accepting that "heart" remains a screwed up, 
addicted, clumsy muscle right through the whole unfolding 
of the flower of grace, and "mercy" is a rude stream.

- e
> seems that the answer to the original post would be to
> bring M. Rothbart to LA for a dialogue on dramaturgy
> and playwriting here in LA. So far we have one ticket
> from philadelphia to LA. Anyone want to volunteer a
> space? I can offer couch space for two if you cuddle,
> and I promise to bring good food so that when people
> start yelling at each other they can take a break. A
> simliar conference at New Dramatists last year
> featured no dramaturgs, only writers, so it didn't
> have that spark of dialogue.
> 
> It seems only pedantic to correct the proper spellings
> of playwright, playwriting, or cacti when the improper
> spelling was being used itself pedantically (does a
> playwright really aspire to be a 'wright' in the sense
> of someone who makes a table, a cast iron knife -- if
> a play is something that is 'wrought' why are there
> actors, a director). For those who wonder about the
> utility of dramaturgs because they have not worked
> with one, or not with a good one, may we remind the
> list that there are plenty of bad writers and
> directors who nonetheless practice their jobs without
> anyone claiming that the job itself is useless.
> 
> Places like the playwrights center are dedicated to
> promoting the careers of playwrights. Literary
> departments, usually headed by dramaturgs, are devoted
> to finding writers and HELPING them. It seems to me
> that a good writer would want an intelligent person
> who knows their work to look over it for feedback and
> suggestion. TS Eliot thanked Ezra Pound for crossing
> off nearly 2/3 of the waste land, and Scott Fitzgerald
> praised Edmund Wilson for his critical skills. Editors
> have been praised in fiction since its inception; for
> those who talk about shakespeare remember he had no
> director either, does that mean the director is
> worthless?
> 
> I'm serious about helping to host a dramaturgy
> conference in LA.
> 
> rm schedlinski
> 
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