EPISODE · Dec 6, 2012 · 2 MIN
Playwright Richard Nelson: Hands Off!
from Studio 360 · host Studio 360
The playwright Richard Nelson (who wrote the screenplay to Hyde Park on Hudson) tells Kurt Andersen that one of the biggest challenges facing young playwrights is tinkering by well-meaning producers and others. New and ambitious plays, he argues, aren’t broken. “If you look at Hamlet, there are a lot of big holes. But you don’t try to fix it – it’s a play to be solved.” Listen to the full interview this weekend on http://www.studio360.org/
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The playwright Richard Nelson (who wrote the screenplay to Hyde Park on Hudson) tells Kurt Andersen that one of the biggest challenges facing young playwrights is tinkering by well-meaning producers and others. New and ambitious plays, he argues, aren’t broken. “If you look at Hamlet, there are a lot of big holes. But you don’t try to fix it – it’s a play to be solved.” Listen to the full interview this weekend on http://www.studio360.org/
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