Re: RAT Playwriting Opportunities & Dramaturgs

[DennisLMo@aol.com]

i guess its this abstract idea of perfectibility. the cool eye of the 
dramaturg, the intelligent other person to bounce off ideas, get an insight, 
find that ineffable structural twang, o so butiful and so fine, just made it 
so perfect... the vision finished now, the music box ticking over plunk, 
plunk, plunk... not a messy, messy, talented mess no more...

now then sometimes, for some of us, theater is war and you have the fog of 
war. generalisimo playwright, and generalisimo director, and valorous, naive, 
idealistic, give it what you got, pedal and petal to the metal actors... 
taking orders, sometimes, and also talking back to naive, idealistic, pedal 
to the metal, flower loving, generalisimo playwright and papa doc director...

i guess it's the neat box routine, the apolonian balance, the who would not 
want a third reasonable eye all over their work respectfully asking delicate 
leading questions here and dere, mannerly, sweet, cause art and life's so 
sweet...

maybe bourgeois theatre needs the tidying hand (dramaturge) in a regional 
theatre setting, so that work will not provoke... or provoke a subscriber 
revolt in La Jolla or another place where the money is? (i pose a socratic 
question).

after all we know brecht's entourage was no sweet thing... and weren't the 
kings men rough and ready... look what happened to marlowe, and how about all 
those rock'em sock'em females in the present day theatre scene...

love,
dennis