RE: RAT, The dramaturgy of...

[Laura Winton <fluffysingler@prodigy.net>]

Is not wanting to be "misunderstood" the same thing as wanting the audience
to "get it" (as opposed to just plain being confounded)?  Just pondering . .
. .


--- Greg Romero <gregoryromero@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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