Re: RAT Reading Series --What Brecht thinks

[brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.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


Karen,

 I am officially confused.  You  say that you don't want this to be a
public issue, that you were hurt by my posting  in a public forum, and yet
you have returned twice to the same public forum to make your case.

 I would say that reading series are for getting playwrightsd work read,
and turninig on Artistic Directors to the work so that  it can be produced.

 Funny, I never read your play as Brechtian, because the catharsis happens
in the theatre, not in the the street.

 My mistakes are threefold:

 A) I was forced to cut a play from  the  first section of my series. The
play happened to be yours,  and ,  because I am truly overworked, I forgot
to tell you.

B) I sent out a Press release without your play on  it, having forgotten
that I forgot to tell you.

C) when you contacted me to ask what was up., I assumed that the query was
a personal one ( not on the RAT-List as it turned out to be) realized the
error of my ways, did an "OH SHIT!",  and fired off a quick note to you
using my trusty SEND button, never bothering  to  check the return address
and assuming  that we were commuincating privately.

 For all of this, I was in the wrong and I am sorry. However, you have made
it clear that sorry is not good  enough for you, which leaves me at a loss.
I can tell you that I would like to read your play later in the year, I can
even tell you  that other playwrights work has been scheduled  and shifted,
and I can tell you that I try to be very good with the people I want to
work  with    and in this case  I simply dropped the ball.  However, I
realize that none of this addresses your justifiable hurt or anger or
condones in any way my sequence of actions.

 Outside of that I request that this topic  be taken off the List and that
any  further discussion on   my errors in handling this situation be
shifted to a personasl, one-on-one forum.


--brad

--brad