Re: RAT Readings// referencing scrdchao@nni.com (brad rothbart)

[Allison Narver <anarver@yahoo.com>]

Dear MFarkash,
I'm not a lit manager or an artistic director.  I'm a
director and live in NYC.  I'd love to read one of
your plays.  Send me a copy online or write me back
and I'll send you my address.
Thanks,
Allison Narver
--- MFarkash@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I believe it's accurate to state that every
> group/region has their favorite 
> playwrights, and their own tastes. Why else would
> the Taper, ASK and other 
> such groups keep on reading work by the same
> accomplished playwrights -- even 
> though these playwrights' works are done in LA, New
> York, and even London?  
> 
> The answer seems, because this stuff is good,
> interesting and proven. And 
> established groups are reluctant to take a chance on
> new, unproven, edgy 
> material.
> 
> Although I haven't said it before, I commend Brad
> Rothbart for the part of 
> his reading series which exposes NEW, UNPRODUCED and
> UNPUBLISHED playwrights 
> to his scene, and/or to any regional scene.
> 
> I really would like to see more of a chance taken by
> ALL reading groups -- 
> and production groups. A GIRL'S GUIDE has already
> been produced, as you say. 
> It's got a good chance of getting into print. Steven
> Tomlinson's play had a 
> world premiere, already. Same thing.
> 
> So let me back up and say -- it's just my personal
> feeling -- without 
> legislating this for others -- that public readings
> ought to expose new, 
> unpublished, edgy, different work, and definitely
> not stuff that's already 
> been produced.  (Unless it hasn't been reviewed,
> which means no documentation 
> on it.)
> 
> Let me also say, that ASK has a terrific program,
> which includes a Los 
> Angeles Public Library collection where produced but
> unpublished plays are 
> available.
> 
> Maybe I'm going off on this topic because I feel
> strongly about it. Maybe I 
> believe that my friends' worthy plays are not being
> read or produced. Maybe 
> it's because I submit my plays and never even get
> the courtesy of a 
> rejection, or the dubious pleasure of "Never send us
> this kind of shit 
> again."   Maybe it's because my own plays are not
> mainstream, and only one of 
> them has made money. And so I, like many other
> playwrights, must struggle 
> each time to get them staged. 
> 
> Brad, again I commend your work, but I believe we
> have different philosophies 
> and tastes.   As a member and past member of several
> writing groups, I have 
> heard much, much bad material (including some of my
> own). Yet, you write that 
> you can "name fifty wonderful plays I've read in two
> months ... "
> 
> FIFTY wonderful plays?   Unpublished and unproduced?
>   I definitely want to 
> get on your reading list. 
> 


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