Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
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By that logic we should only ever have plays which are set in fantasy worlds for fear of accidentally giving someone the wrong impression.
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Bullshit, I didn't say anything of the sort.
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Generally people who go to a play know that it's the playwrite's own interpretation of events
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Generally speaking the people watching and the people producing those plays know this.
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You seem to know a hell of a lot about what other people "generally" think.
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I didnt say you said that, I merely followed what you did say through to what I considered to be it's logical conclusion.
As to what I do or do not know about what other people think....No I dont know what other people think, however I can make an informed guess given my own experience of the theatre going public through my involvement in the UK theatre scene. I merely express what I have found to be the case amongst those I have spent time with. The theatre scene is not like the Cinema scene ( certainly not in the uk) The kind of theatre which produces Les Smith's plays and the kind of audience he attracts is as idiosynchratic as the audience you might find at a Michael Moore film.....more so because Michael Moore is very well known by the mainstream too unlike Les who isnt....More generally the types of audience attracted to Town theatres ( not including te musicals and am dram productions) and Rep theatrical productions tend to be dominated by a particular demographic ....Forgive me if I am arrogant enough to suggest I may have an insight into them as I am one of them.
And yes, what Les researched gave him a particular view of the events. It seems that hisview of events is eerily similar to the views held by the survivors, the whistleblowers, the international media and most honest historians.