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Now Playing: "It's Not in the P-I, a Living Newspaper about a Dying Newspaper"
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This is cute - if only the concept weren't lifted directly (and I mean Directly) from David Ives' short play 'English Made Simple.' I don't understand how a playwright could unwittingly rip something like Ives off, given the popularity of his work and that it's performed all over the country all the time. Really, really embarrassing fro someone.
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Which would, of course, be a scandal, if the entire theatrical canon weren't built on the bedrock of "concept lifting".
Shakespeare
Miller
Wilder
Ruhl
and on
and on
and on
Shakespeare
Miller
Wilder
Ruhl
and on
and on
and on
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I appreciate your point, Mullin, but there's a not-so-thin line between lifting a concept and what amounts to plagiarism.
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I'm not sure I do appreciate your point Septober, since you're judging an excerpt and have no idea how it fits into a larger work. (Context being one of the components when defining plagiarism.)
So my recommendation is put some actual shoes on, maybe lose the pj's and come see the show.
So my recommendation is put some actual shoes on, maybe lose the pj's and come see the show.
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Stupid idiots - - anyone mention Craigslist as a deadly component to the demise of all paid newspapers? Guess it doesn't make for good theater.
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I am super excited about this show, and interested to see the "Living Newspaper" genre in life.
(Re: Ives, he is not the only person to employ this concept...I would venture to say he's probably not the first person to think of it, either. He happened to use it particularly well and make a good play out of it; maybe this play does as well. Guess I'll have to go see it to find out.)
(Re: Ives, he is not the only person to employ this concept...I would venture to say he's probably not the first person to think of it, either. He happened to use it particularly well and make a good play out of it; maybe this play does as well. Guess I'll have to go see it to find out.)
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I know I'm late to the party here, Mullin, but was that supposed to be insulting or something? At any rate it doesn't begin to pass for a defense of this idea theft.
Sorry if I'm taking this excerpt in the context in which it was presented to me. As an excerpt, it reeks of someone else's [better, earlier] work. I'm sorry if that's hard to hear, but it's true.
Sorry if I'm taking this excerpt in the context in which it was presented to me. As an excerpt, it reeks of someone else's [better, earlier] work. I'm sorry if that's hard to hear, but it's true.
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It's not hard to hear, Septober. It's simply not true. You'd know that if you saw the show.
So in answer to your first question: no, it's not meant to be an insult. It's meant to be a prod. Come see the show so you can actually know what you're talking about. You'll be happier. We'll be happier. Or, conversely, continue to anonymously rant about that which you know an amount approaching zero.
See, that's one of the things I love about theatre. It's simply not possible for anyone, audience or author, to be anonymous. So if you think Dawson is a plagiarist, you can come to the theatre and tell him so. This is called the courage of one's convictions. It may be a concept strange to you, but I think once you embrace it, you'll find it liberating.
So in answer to your first question: no, it's not meant to be an insult. It's meant to be a prod. Come see the show so you can actually know what you're talking about. You'll be happier. We'll be happier. Or, conversely, continue to anonymously rant about that which you know an amount approaching zero.
See, that's one of the things I love about theatre. It's simply not possible for anyone, audience or author, to be anonymous. So if you think Dawson is a plagiarist, you can come to the theatre and tell him so. This is called the courage of one's convictions. It may be a concept strange to you, but I think once you embrace it, you'll find it liberating.
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