RAT Uncle Artie sez . . .

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

 . .  in the end stylization in the theater will be justified not by
its novelty-- at least not for long-- but by the degree to which it
illuminates how life works in our time.  How a thing is said is only
as new as what it is saying.  The proof of this is the deep pile of
experimental plays of two, three, five, ten years ago, which can only
be appreciated anymore by the scholar-specialist.  It is a pile,
incidentally, no smaller than the one for so many conventionally
realistic plays of the same era.  Finding truth is no easier now when
we are totally free to use any stylistic means at hand that it was a
century or half a century ago, when a play had to be "real" to be read
at all and had to make sense to sensible people."

	--Arthur Miller in this months HARPER’S


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