RAT intreguing typo

["Sylvain, John" <jsylvain@station.sony.com>]

The Iceman Comet?
I never heard of that one but I sure would like to see it!!!!
:-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	brad rothbart [SMTP:scrdchao@nni.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, October 24, 1999 8:39 AM
> To:	rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject:	Re: RAT Readings//  referencing scrdchao@nni.com (brad
> rothbart)
> 
> 
> 
> >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his reading series which exposes NEW, UNPRODUCED and UNPUBLISHED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.
> 
> Thank you for the credit. However,  I think you give me altogether too
> much, besides putting words into my mouth. I said " underheard"
> playwrights- which I amdit is a subjective standard.
> Here's my litmus test: walk down a Main street in a large city. Ask people
> to name 5 living Americasn Playrights. If they can ,  ( which is doubtful)
> those consistejntly NOT named are the "undeheard playwrights for
> yourlocale.
> >
> >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.
> 
>  BVy the Boston Womens Center,  in 1996. Once, in its history.  >t's got a
> good chance of getting into print.  It is in print- PAJ Books,  Plays for
> the end of the 20th C	entur, Ed. Bonnie Marraca- Great book ofplays- but
> not many peopler know about it.. .. Reza Abdoh, Adrienne Kennedy, Rachel
> Rosenthyal, Maria Irene Fornes, Erik Ehn, The Wooster Group, Richard
> Foreman. In fact, here's the web addy- support your  small presses.
> http://www.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/bipshow.cgi?type=series&qry=Performance%3
> A+PAJ
> 
> Steven Tomlinson's play had a
> >world premiere, already. Same thing.
> 
>  Yes, but it was in Austin.  In Phildelphia- Austin might as well be
> Manila.
> 
>  If you're into the Music scene,  and live in Phoilly , perhaps you know
> about  the Music festival/conference- SW___???
> 
> If you watch  films, yoiu've probably heard of  Richard Linlater.
> 
>  Ifyou're really political , you know about Charles Whitman and the Texas
> Tower Murders.
> 
> But Austin theatre? Salvage Vaguard, Rude Mechanicals, Frontera? No one's
> heard of them here. In fact, outside of 4 0r 5 major  Philly theatres-
> mnost Philadelphians aren't even coversant with the Philadelphia Theatre
> Scene.
> >
> >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.)
> 
>  You should create that series, then....
> >
> >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.
> 
>  So, wait- doesn't that, at its endpoint, obviate the need for live
> theatre
> altogether. I mean,  if I can read The Iceman Comet, there's no reasomn to
> go sdee Kevin Spacey in it?? Are you a playwright in opposition to
> actors??
> >
> >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.
> 
>  Ok then.. .. You and your worthy friends are more than welcome to send me
> your work.
> 
>  '/However, guidelines:  No money, very little set element, very little
> rehearsal. Theatre as pickup basketball.
> Also, just because you submit doesn't  mean your work will be chosen.
> 
> You can take issue with these guidelines- playqwrights have for their own
> personal artisticreasons. But, if you choose not to submit, I don't want
> to
> hear how no one will read your work. OK?
> Contact me off-list for guidelines...
> >
> >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.
> 
>  Never said unpublished or unproduced, simply said underheard, and that's
> a
> geographically  relative term...--
> 
> brad
> 
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