Re:Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition
by jfengel on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:01PM
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I do much the same in a different medium. I direct Shakespeare, and one of the first things I do is take out a lot of redundancy in the script.
That's a different kind of redundancy, since it's not just repeating the same words. But writers of the period tended to emphasize things for an audience who wasn't always paying attention: theaters were noisy and busy.
Shakespeare also tended to expound on themes in a way modern audiences enjoy less. Not every word Shakespeare wrote was gold, and audiences use to the timing of movies prefer that you move the plot along in two hours rather than three to four.
I can tighten focus on themes that are important to me, and cut out things like jokes that aren't funny any more or references that are lost. Audiences greatly enjoy the result, without having to be extensively taught to like Elizabethan theater.
That's a different kind of redundancy, since it's not just repeating the same words. But writers of the period tended to emphasize things for an audience who wasn't always paying attention: theaters were noisy and busy.
Shakespeare also tended to expound on themes in a way modern audiences enjoy less. Not every word Shakespeare wrote was gold, and audiences use to the timing of movies prefer that you move the plot along in two hours rather than three to four.
I can tighten focus on themes that are important to me, and cut out things like jokes that aren't funny any more or references that are lost. Audiences greatly enjoy the result, without having to be extensively taught to like Elizabethan theater.