Re: RAT Unsolicited Scripts . . .

[brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>]

>The personal connection is the thing that makes  theatre great.  Giving it
>up for the Kansas warehouse seems  (IMO) to disallow the magic connection
>between theatre/playwright/actors/audience.


The Kansas warehouse schema started as a joke and evolved into something
semi-serious as I wrote it. Buried  deep in its post-millenial David Foster
Wallace-esque aspect, though, was an atempt to  reponmd to something I
think Karen Cronacher said in her  whirlwind of posts.

Karen seemed to imply that scripts get done in the RAT world as much
through connections as through the quality of script. She did this by
stating that she had a quality work, and yet that work went unproduced.

Taking this critique seriously, I wondered what would happen if all
interpersonal  ascpect was removed from the choosing of plays? Would the
same scripts still get produced?-- out of this came the Kansas warehouse
model- an oblique attempt to respond to a veiled critique-- a
script-tasting if you will...

- brad