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| re: The Life...and the Death of Encores | |
| Posted by: BroadwayJunky 07:13 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...and the Death of Encores - keikekaze 07:10 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| Bravo - well said. 100% agree. re-writing other people's work is not a precedent I want to see happen in our community. |
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| re: The Life...and the Death of Encores | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 09:00 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...and the Death of Encores - BroadwayJunky 07:13 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| I also think there's a huge difference between a reconceptualization of a canonical play (say, setting Macbeth in Axis Germany, as Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen have done), a re-thinking of a text, but authored by a new writer and or director (say, something akin to A Doll's House, Part II or Mourning Becomes Electra), and just rewriting a text because you wish to "correct" the author's lack of "progressivism" (according to the so-called revisionary author). The former two can be fascinating and productive (and still show some modicum of respect and desire for open dialogue), the latter just seems to me cannibalistic. | |
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| re: The Life...and the Death of Encores | |
| Posted by: ryhog 11:40 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...and the Death of Encores - BruceinIthaca 09:00 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
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| "just seems to me cannibalistic" Just curious: do you really think that was Porter's motivation? (I am not looking to debate the point; I just found it surprising in light of what I have read.) |
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| re: The Life...and the Death of Encores | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 01:49 pm EDT 03/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...and the Death of Encores - ryhog 11:40 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
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| Fair question and one to which I have no answer. What I can say, and here I may have been unclear in my posting, is I wasn't actually thinking specifically or only of Porter's "The Life." (I haven't seen and obviously will not as it closes today, right?) Some of the reviews seem to suggest that might be what he is doing--that may not have been his intention (who can know intention--as Jung suggests, the unconscious is far larger space than we may think). As Octave says in Renoir's "The Rules of the Game": "That's the awful thing about life: Everybody has their reasons." | |
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| re: The Life...and the Death of Encores | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 07:17 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...and the Death of Encores - BroadwayJunky 07:13 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| Thanks, BroadwayJunky. I agreed with your comment farther up above, too--apparently we were writing them at the same time! | |
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