| re: reality check from the sidelines |
| Posted by: keikekaze 05:11 pm EDT 03/20/22 |
| In reply to: reality check from the sidelines - ryhog 11:36 am EDT 03/20/22 |
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Finally, when you say what you say in your last paragraph, you are doing nothing more than expressing an opinion; you have no authority and the people who do have spoken. And fwiw, if it is not clear, I don't think a play needs to become a museum piece of interest only to a dwindling audience as if it is too precious to adapt.
I never claimed that I was doing anything more than expressing an opinion. That's my opinion, and there it is. I don't need outside help to understand what the limits of my "authority" are. But I do wish that any play that's worth reviving at all would be revived with delicacy and respect. And if a play isn't worth reviving--or if one thinks that the play isn't worth reviving without wholesale rewrites (most likely by less competent hands than those responsible for the original)--then why do it? Why bother? Why not do something else that you're more in sympathy with? And fwiw, if it is not clear, I also don't think a play needs to become a museum piece of interest only to a dwindling audience as if it is too precious to adapt--so I'm not going to let you try to put those words (which I never said or implied) into my mouth without objection. By definition, any play worth reviving is not a museum piece. But a crappy rewrite may very well render it one. |
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