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re: If it's "based on" the play, then it is an adaptation (and it doesn't pretend otherwise)

Posted by:	AlanScott 04:09 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to:	re: If it's "based on" the play, then it is an adaptation (and it doesn't pretend otherwis ... - ukpaul 07:43 am EDT 08/16/14

I don't know what strictures the Durrenment estate has on the way it is described. That's why I used the word "may" ("the producers may have no choice in the matter"). It may be that the Durrenmatt estate doesn't care, or it may be that the estate did insist on "based on." But I'd guess (though I'm not sure) that some language was agreed upon in the contract. Actually, I doubt that the producers and writers really care whether it says "based on," "adapted from," "suggested by," or "came in the box of Cracker Jacks." (Well, the writers probably care about crediting Durrenmatt.) Do you mean that it sounds like the creators of the musical have ignored what Valency did as much as possible or ignored the original play as much as possible? And I'm just remembering that Durrenmatt and I share a birthday.

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