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| re: So, Encores erased the fat character in Tap Dance Kid. Have other major productions? Has Encores done this before? | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 08:04 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 08:00 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? - Chazwaza 07:21 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
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| Nothing in what I wrote in any way suggests that we need to toss out everything that’s been written before today. And look, writers and creatives regularly do research into areas that they don’t know as much about, in order to render them authentically. This is nothing new, and it’s nothing unusual. Your hostility is misplaced. Likewise, I didn’t write that writers are limited to writing auto-biography; that’s your overreaction. |
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| re: So, Encores erased the fat character in Tap Dance Kid. Have other major productions? Has Encores done this before? | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 08:27 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:15 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 08:00 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
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| I'm not claiming you said those things, and you've missed my point, I suspect willfully. I'm am following your logic to another level. If we applied the standard of "needing" to bring on collaborators to consult and guide writers writing any character or story that is outside that writers lived experience to just about every novel or play (etc), they would not have been written as they are, or not have been published or performed because there was no "authenticity of presumed relevant lived experienced" to consult and approve before it was released. The point is that there are many great and celebrated works written by people, currently and throughout the history of the written word, that do not meet this standard. And my point with the one-person auto-biographical play is that if you are writing something that is not specifically that, you are writing people and stories outside your own actual lived experience, period. So therefor, now, would need to hire a collaborator who can guide and consult your writing through the filter of their own lived experience which is closer to (or deemed the same as, even though that's not possible) the characters'. I am also fully in support of writers doing research and being sensitive to the approach/context/portrayal and impact of their writing. I am not hostile to that idea. |
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| re: So, Encores erased the fat character in Tap Dance Kid. Have other major productions? Has Encores done this before? | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 09:57 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? - Chazwaza 08:15 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
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| I did miss your point, but not willfully. Sorry to tell you, but you made a leap from one idea to the next as if that was what I was proposing, rather than stating this was your extension into speculative fiction. A dramaturg might be able to help you state yourself more clearly - you might want to hire a consultant before you publish your next post (tongue in cheek, of course). I think most reasonable people are able to recognize the past and separate it from the present, but I also think that we can look back on many plays or novels and see how they didn't handle certain characters or communities with the delicacy or intelligence that they might have. And we can also look back at plays or novels and if we did some digging, we'd likely discover that those writers did work with people from these communities, in some fashion, in order to expand their knowledge. We're just talking about making that a more codified part of the process. Do you object when someone writing about a Roman gladiator hires an expert on Roman history? Do you object if someone producing a Moliere play brings in someone with knowledge of French humor and etiquette in the 17th Century? I would guess not, and so I would challenge you to consider how this is fundamentally different. |
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