Theater Seattle to Denver: You Must Respect!
posted by on March 4 at 14:57 PM
“The Denver Center Theatre Company is taking 100 percent credit for conceiving the book ‘Plainsong’ as a play,” said co-artistic director Myra Platt. “But the truth is, without Kent Haruf’s and Kent Thompson’s association with Book-It Theatre’s world-premiere production, the DCTC production would have never come to fruition. We don’t feel like we got credit where credit is due.”
Sooo—does that mean Book-It owes an apology to everyone who’s adapted, say Persuasion or Snow Falling on Cedars or Peter Pan or just about every-goddamned-thing in their 2007 season, all of which have been adapted before?
(Full story here.)
Hailing from the Denver area originally myself, I know they're obsessed with sports, but still: Why is this theater story in the Broncos section? Do they not have a dedicated arts section in the Post?
I'm surprised that Book-It is choosing to make a stink over this when the author of the adapted book clearly thinks the Denver production was superior: "vastly improved — in scope, quality and depth". Burn.
The worst part of that article, though, is the critic's casual correlation between "longer and bigger" and "better". Longer and bigger are not always better. They're often much worse. Denver's production was an hour longer than Book-It's? That doesn't mean it was better. It made me cringe, in fact--everything at Book-It is at least an hour too long.
Yea? I was the first person to dip pizza in ranch dressing. Where's my article?
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