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re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show

Posted by:	enoch10 03:25 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to:	The Visit at WTF: my take on the show - Glitter 10:54 pm EDT 08/15/14

thanks for posting this. you're familiar with previous incarnations and the source material so i trust your judgement. sorry to hear it's the valency - there are such better translations to work from. i don't know how the legality of this sort of thing works. if only the valency can be used in performance does that extend to adaptations as well? i guess it is a moot point. >> Should it transfer? Yes. but do you think it will? i'm actually hoping the rumors about it going to london first are true. i wish SB had. again, thanks for the report. i've been looking for it.

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The question of the source material (Durrenmatt vs. Valency)

Posted by:	AlanScott 04:28 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to:	re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show - enoch10 03:25 pm EDT 08/16/14

The billing says: Based on the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt Translated by Maurice Valency Based on that, it doesn't seem that they would have contractually prohibited from using anything that's in the original but not in the Valency version. It seems merely that they were obligated to credit Valency as well as Dürrenmatt.

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