When Playwrights Can't Let Go Of The Script
"Eugene O'Neill rewrote compulsively; Bertolt Brecht published three alarmingly different versions of Galileo; and Leonard Bernstein's musical Candide burned through three book writers and lyricists (Dorothy Parker and James Agee among them). ... Instead of inventing an entirely new work, playwrights instead reduce, reuse and recycle. But is this really good for the theatrical environment?" The Guardian (UK) 11/27/08

Posted November 28, 2008 05:05 AM