The One Who Writes It Down Wins by Brendan Kiley - Theater - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper

The One Who Writes It Down Wins by Brendan Kiley - Theater - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper:

What makes me sad about the more experiential stuff is there is no future for it. Same with some of the stuff I do with Reggie [Watts, the New York–based singer and comedian]—there is no future for it, and nobody else will do it.

It's sort of like dance—it's built to disappear.

Yeah, but I always get slightly sad that there is no legacy for that. I'm sentimental that way—I like to keep stuff. Samuel Pepys, he wrote down every theater performance that he saw, and that's the only living document from that era because all the plays were so bad. The person who wins out is the person who writes it down. Early Richard Foreman, early Wooster Group—it almost might as well have not existed. Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill are still gods and they will be, because they wrote it down. recommended