| re: So, Encores erased the fat character in Tap Dance Kid. Have other major productions? Has Encores done this before? | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 07:28 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 07:21 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
| In reply to: re: So, Encores erased the fat character in Tap Dance Kid. Have other major productions? Has Encores done this before? - Singapore/Fling 06:30 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
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| Well, by this logic or new rule, we should throw out just about every novel or play (or movie or tv show even) that's be written prior to... well, even today. Enjoy that. Unless you have written a play about your own "lived experience" exclusively, from the clear point of view of you (because your lived experience is only true for you, the other characters written in the portrayal of that life are seen through the lived experience of the author, not the person the author is writing, so there's an inherent problem in writing anything but an auto-biographical one-person play), then you have to bring on consultants who are able, somehow, to represent, and give notes, with deference, on the things you didn't live? Including a mounting of a play from the past? I'm sorry, I don't agree. It is becoming a standard because of fear, not because it is the agreed upon best way to do things. Encores mission is not to only produce musicals that are 100% authentic, with exclusively multi-layered characters with nuance and seen always and only in the light today's audiences want to see them in. And it's not true that the only scores worth celebrating and presenting in the Encores style are only the musicals that fit this standard coming in. Nor should it be. I don't think a lack of dramaturgical consulting was the issue at play with Jagged Little Pill. And yes, if you're writing about characters or places that could be/have been negatively impacted by how they're written about/portrayed, it's worth having someone from that community take a look and give feedback. That is not at all the same as "bringing in collaborators", nor is it the same as doing it whenever you bring people into the story "that are from different lived experiences than our own". It's quite different to consult on how something might reflect on or impact the current community than a dramaturg being hired to "help" reflect their own lived experience or their perception and opinion of what the characters experience would be and also what of that needs to be included in the play. |
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