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Whenever I complain [who me?] about some software I use being flawed, someone will always come back with the old "If you don't like it, write your own...". Whe

Whenever I complain [who me?] about some software I use being flawed, someone will always come back with the old "If you don't like it, write your own...". Whenever I complain [who me?] about a website's policies, someone will always come back with the old "Their playground. Their rules..." I'm tempted to play the same card here; "If you don't want to stage the play the way the person who wrote it wanted it to be staged... write your own play"

yucky 4y ago
That would require talent. It seems that the reason these hacks continue to piggyback off of existing art and demand its "modification for diversity" is because they can't create anything novel or unique on their own. This is just a byproduct of that where the university demands non-males be allowed to audition for a role that is supposed to go a male.
Volundr 4y ago
Wouldn't this apply to the venue too though? If you don't want to follow the venue's rules for what they will and won't host, find or build your own venue?
- ClapperHeid 4y ago
  Yes. It would apply to the venue too. Which kind of begs the question why they [the venue] decided, in the first place, to stage a play written for an all male cast by a playwright who had very definite views about how his works should be staged?
sam_lowry_ 4y ago
Once the literary work is published, the author should lose control over it. Money is one thing, enforcing your rules is another. Full disclosure: I made a popular (unauthorized) translation of Waiting For Godot many years ago.
jfengel 4y ago
That is precisely what they did. Good for them. They don't need to write their own. There are lots of other playwrights out there. They've decided not to perform a play which has such limited opportunities for actors, and find one that does. It would have been nice if the Beckett estate had instead decided to let other people interpret the work, but it's their right not to allow it. Their loss, both artistically and financially.

yucky 4y ago

That would require talent. It seems that the reason these hacks continue to piggyback off of existing art and demand its "modification for diversity" is because they can't create anything novel or unique on their own. This is just a byproduct of that where the university demands non-males be allowed to audition for a role that is supposed to go a male.

Volundr 4y ago

Wouldn't this apply to the venue too though? If you don't want to follow the venue's rules for what they will and won't host, find or build your own venue?

ClapperHeid 4y ago
Yes. It would apply to the venue too. Which kind of begs the question why they [the venue] decided, in the first place, to stage a play written for an all male cast by a playwright who had very definite views about how his works should be staged?

sam_lowry_ 4y ago

Once the literary work is published, the author should lose control over it. Money is one thing, enforcing your rules is another. Full disclosure: I made a popular (unauthorized) translation of Waiting For Godot many years ago.

jfengel 4y ago

That is precisely what they did. Good for them. They don't need to write their own. There are lots of other playwrights out there. They've decided not to perform a play which has such limited opportunities for actors, and find one that does. It would have been nice if the Beckett estate had instead decided to let other people interpret the work, but it's their right not to allow it. Their loss, both artistically and financially.