| re: Well, sorta |
| Posted by: ryhog 01:02 pm EDT 07/28/20 |
| In reply to: re: Well, sorta - Michael_Portantiere 12:19 pm EDT 07/28/20 |
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I am certainly not trying to dissuade you from what your gut tells you. Where we part company is in what we believe about whether revision (at least at some degree) dies with the original creator(s). I am happy that people try (and often fail) to fit the square peg of Shakespeare in a round hole. I am happy that the Wooster Group did something (that I just saw for the first time) to Pinter that he could not have imagined. I am happy that the National Theatre of Greece did something (this past weekend) to Aeschylus that he could not have imagined. And just because they died more recently, I don't distinguish what was done to the work of any of the aforementioned dead men. That doesn't say anything about what you should be happy about.
The other sub-thread in which you figure raises a different set of considerations. What if minority voices were not heard when white men wrote (directed, etc) shows years ago? What is the legitimacy of what they wrote? If this is a significant set of questions, then do we bury some of the great work of dead people with them? Or do we find a way to honor that work by legitimizing it? These are the issues of 2020 and beyond. |
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