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| re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” | |
| Posted by: FortPeck 11:08 am EDT 04/09/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” - Singapore/Fling 01:28 am EDT 04/09/23 | |
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| Roald Dahl is dead. His books are what they are, and they don't need to live forever via inclusiveness updates (much as the estate might like that). They can go out of print, and someone can write new books. Posthumous changes and edits are absurd and offensive. | |
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| re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” | |
| Posted by: ryhog 02:00 pm EDT 04/09/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” - FortPeck 11:08 am EDT 04/09/23 | |
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| "much as the estate might like that" Since the estate owns the property (subject only to the terms of Dahl's delegation) and you don't, how much more presumptuous could you be? It's easy for you to say the books can go out of print since you have nothing to lose. (Also, let's recognize that, in the 21st Century, "out of print" is a wholly meaningless anachronism.) I take your last sentence as a statement of your opinion, which does not align with mine. |
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| re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” | |
| Posted by: FortPeck 11:44 pm EDT 04/09/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” - ryhog 02:00 pm EDT 04/09/23 | |
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| I would say it's the ultimate in presumptuousness to alter the words of a deceased author and present them to the world as his. (Sure, they own it and have the right to do it.) | |
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| re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” | |
| Posted by: ryhog 01:18 am EDT 04/10/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” - FortPeck 11:44 pm EDT 04/09/23 | |
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| I very clearly understood that from your prior post. :-) I wonder, though, why you presume it is presumptuous. In the theatre at least, I am familiar with writers who have settled their literary estates with instructions to keep their words as resonant as much as possible in the future. Not everyone, to be sure, but a lot of writers nowadays spend a lot of time pondering these questions just as they answer the easier ones like what grandchild will wear that broach instead of putting it in a drawer. Curious about one more thing: do you object to the alteration of the words in the Bible? |
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