| 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. |
