| re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 07:44 pm EDT 04/08/23 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 07:36 pm EDT 04/08/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” - Singapore/Fling 07:14 pm EDT 04/08/23 | |
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| I would imagine it is a matter of degrees. McDonagh thought the proposed changes bordered on censorship and PEN International seems to agree. The Roald Dahl situation, who was an admittedly nasty nasty man, was over-reach on the part of the publishers who wanted to make a profitable author more aligned with changing cultural standards but in doing so were also muffling Dahl's misanthropy which is really the essence of his writing and what makes him a unique writer of children's fiction. I like what Philip Pullman said about Dahl's publishers' attempt to rehabilitate him to contemporary ideological standards: ...let him go out of print... That’s what I’d say. Read Phil Earle, SF Said, Frances Hardinge, Michael Morpurgo, Malorie Blackman. Read Mini Grey, Helen Cooper, Jaqueline Wilson, Beverley Naidoo... Read all these wonderful authors who are writing today who don’t get as much of a look-in because of the massive commercial gravity of people like Roald Dahl... They’re [Roald Dahl's books] not going to vanish because they’re still going to be around for years and years... They should be allowed to fade away. Let him go out of print. |
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