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| re: jordan cooper- not the youngest | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 02:02 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:00 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: jordan cooper- not the youngest - mikem 09:44 am EST 12/19/22 | |
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| Yeah, and that's how it becomes a fact even if it's false. Ironic as this kind of thing is something left (of which I'm apart) loves to complain about the right doing. Cooper has so much success, even regardless of this play or when it closes, and so much praise and amount of public support from celebrities, it seems pretty disingenuous to claim this if it's not true. Especially knowing, as we all do and he surely does if he thinks about it, that saying it outloud or online will mean it will stand as fact for 99% of people hearing/reading it (as it would have for me). He and his play are very notable... he has achieved so much... but being the youngest playwright in Broadway history is not one of his achievements, and that fact takes nothing away from him (but claiming it does, if you think about it, take something away from the person(s) who are that, and the other several people his own age when they were produced on bway). anyway, there's not much need to keep talking about this. |
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| re: jordan cooper- not the youngest | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 05:59 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:54 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: jordan cooper- not the youngest - Chazwaza 02:00 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
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| How about youngest playwright of color to have a financially successful play (i.e. a hit) on Broadway? Hansbury probably. Not African-American or American, but as a woman, there's Shelagh Delaney's "A Taste of Honey", which was successful enough on both sides of the pond to get a film version, produced on Broadway when she was like 21. All wonderful, but what's even better is a long sustained career which unfortunately Hansbury was denied by her health. | |
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| re: jordan cooper- not the youngest | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 07:42 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: jordan cooper- not the youngest - PlayWiz 05:54 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
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| I'm not sure good any of these rankings and denotations do, or even what many of them mean, or what context they are or are not being put in. Seems like a pointless endeavor. Can't we just celebrate what things are? I'm not going to see Ain't No Mo because Cooper is a 27 year old or because he's black or because he's black and 27, or because Lee Daniels decided to produce the premiere play of a 27 year old TV showrunner who went to The New School and got a life-changingly-powerful agent, I'm going because it sounds exciting and interesting and funny and I have heard excellent things. Just as I'm not not going to the work of Dominique Morisseau because she's 44 and black, or Sarah Ruhl because she's white, or anyone's next play because their last play was a financial success or wasn't, or because it was a commercial run that closes in 10 weeks or less or a non-profit run that played its scheduled 10 weeks. Etc So much of these things are circumstantial and say very little about the play or the writer. I have heard nothing but terrible things about The Collaboration but it just extended even before NYC critical reviews come out. It's all theater. |
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