RE: RAT, The dramaturgy of...

[Greg Romero <gregoryromero@yahoo.com>]

I'm not so sure about Beckett.  Perhaps I might
be misunderstanding the circumstances, but the
way he monopolized interpretation of Godot for
example is legendary.  To me that signals a
definate (insecure?) need for him to be "gotten"
in a specific way.


--- Laura Winton <fluffysingler@prodigy.net>
wrote:
> Then again, Waiting For Godot has all those
> layers too and I suspect Beckett
> was NOT necessarily concerned with whether or
> not his audience would "get
> it".
> 
> I love both--Hamlet and Godot.  But artists
> have to be honest with
> themselves about where their skills/talent and
> their interests intersect.  I
> believe that being true to yourself will
> produce the best art.  Not only do
> I have no interest in creating a Lethal Weapon
> movie (to take an extreme
> example), I'm not sure it's something I could
> pull off either with any
> degree of artistic skill.  I owe it to my
> audience to offer them the best of
> what I have to offer rather than worrying about
> offering them what I think
> they want.  Shakespeare, of course, did manage
> to walk that line quite
> nicely.


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Greg Romero
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