| a note, re: 1980 (or even 1990) instead of 1970 | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 02:07 pm EST 01/24/18 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:06 pm EST 01/24/18 | |
| In reply to: Martin McDonagh is quietly one of (or THE?) most produced playwrights in modern Broadway - Chazwaza 04:27 am EST 01/24/18 | |
|
|
|
| For anyone interested, I just want to say officially I think saying they had to have been established by 1970 was a big mistake. I originally meant 1980 and then questioned myself and wrote 1970, and realize that that date opens this up to a lot of writers who were established on Broadway or even had notable prominence during a time when theater and plays (rather than most musicals and family ones at that) were still very much respected and produced and seen in a different way. But beyond that, it's also a question of audiences. Writers starting to make their debut or splash in the 80s or 90s would have a much harder time finding a consistent and committed audience to appreciate and follow their plays, and pay to see them, and they are since then, and worse and worse as time goes by, competing with far more options and forms of easy and cheap entertainment than audiences going to see Stoppard and McNally and Mamet etc plays starting in the 60s and 70s. It's also easier to be produced on Broadway or in the increasingly prohibitively expensive NYC theater scene if they've been established and celebrated already in the decade prior, a decade where producing plays was cheaper, more culturally prominent, and more attended. So that's why the date has changed in this assessment/observation, and why it matters to those who care, and why I do not consider all of the aforementioned writers to be competing in the same category or generation as McDonagh, who came onto the scene in 1998! My thought and observation was really about the modern, current era of playwrights. So it might even have been better to say 1990. The point of this was that it's interesting to me to see who, of the writers with the very difficult task of being establish on Broadway or even in NYC, has been produced as often. McDonagh as the fairly unique distinction in this "new" generation to have most of his work done ON Broadway even if for a short run each time, which someone like Sarah Ruhl and Annie Baker, two very produced modern playwrights, have not had. This is why I zero'd in on Broadway, and also because it is a much big financial undertaking to produce a play on Broadway, even a limited run, or at least takes the confidence of the non-profit theater with a Broadway house to put your play in that house, if that's how it got the "broadway" production. Either way, it's interesting to me. |
|
| reply | |
|
|
|
| Previous: | re: imwas focusing on new work, but - Chazwaza 06:22 pm EST 01/24/18 |
| Next: | mcdonagh was born in 1970 - dramedy 02:54 pm EST 01/24/18 |
| Thread: |
|
Time to render: 0.016699 seconds.