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| Posted: Mon Jul 9th, 2007 04:25 pm |
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well, I'll have to keep "Value for Senior Theatres" since this is a criterion for a competition for senior theatres--and historically at least senior theatres haven't been considered as 'serious theatres' by many producers and writers, hence this competition! I agree, of course, that I'd hate to see plays ghettoized as being solely appropriate for a particular niche. But surely groups from a particular niche can seek plays using specific criteria? There are lots of good plays that would have no particular value for senior theatres, and would clog up the mailboxes of such theatres needlessly. Spring Awakening is a great play (and a great musical), but I can't imagine a senior theatre wanting to do it. Although Spring Awakening with a cast of performers all in their 60s or 70s would be a fascinating comment on societal preconceptions, come to think of it. As a side note: when Moon for the Misbegotten was casting for its world premiere production in the late 1940s (the Theatre Guild opened it in Columbus, Ohio, of all places), O'Neill insisted that only Irish-American actors could be cast. Only those with Irish blood in them, he maintained, could properly understand the characters and the issues. cheers-- Alan
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