RE: New to RAT Communique`

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

--- "Sylvain, John" <jsylvain@station.sony.com> wrote:

> Shows open, shows close. People fall in love with
> each other, people move
> on. The art that is created is Powerful and vital
> yet ephemeral. It is
> there, the most important thing in your life and
> then it evaporates. The set
> is struck and the lights come down and the actors 
> start looking for another
> project. We're building beautiful, powerful sand
> castles.

So stop building castles out of sand.  (Though sand
mixed with other stuff can make a pretty strong and
wonderful concrete.)

In other words, if we pay more attention to the PLAYS
we produce (yes, I'm speaking primarily of new works
here); offer them more care and consideration in their
development, perhaps they'll have a life beyond our
single premiere production of them.  As you know,
Johnny, Annex premiered many, MANY new plays, and
essentially abandoned most of them to the trash heap
half-finished once they'd been put up once.  (What I
wouldn't give to see another production of BESSEMER'S
SPECTACLES with an hour cut out of it!)

Circle X has engendered a different approach, actively
shepherding plays they've produced AFTER they premiere
them.  Hence, playwrights like Glen Berger and Louis
Broom are getting subsequent productions at places
like Empty Space, Yale and Florida State Theatre.


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