Re: RAT Reading Series --What Brecht thinks

["Karen Cronacher" <kcron@ix.netcom.com>]

I agree Audie,

that readings are not for playwrights,
but for lack of funds.

I am that unfortunate playwright,
and thank you for feeling for me.

I wonder what Brecht would say
about all of this.
My Brechtian play "doesn't fit the theme"
so it's okay to treat a person unfairly...

Brecht would say
the message of the reading series
is how you treat the people involved

Karen

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>From: Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>
>To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>Subject: Re: RAT Reading Series Press Release
>Date: Fri, Oct 15, 1999, 3:47 PM
>

> Amen,
> amen,
> amen.
>
> --- MFarkash@aol.com wrote:
>> Alas and alack. Yet one more reading series -- "on a
>> national level?"   Ye Gods.  Wouldn't all that
>> energy be better put into PRODUCTION of one or two
>> worthy plays, instead of unstaged readings?
>>
>> I have never been able to get over all the
>> misdirected energy of "reading" plays, many of which
>> are never produced, or produced elsewhere than the
>> original venue.
>>
>> I also feel for that unfortunate playwright who
>> bought a ticket to Philly in order to see a reading
>> of her play, and then learned that the play reading
>> was canceled.
>>
>> Folks, let's focus on production, not reading these
>> plays to death.
>>
>
>
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>
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