Word: powers
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Others said her focus on men took power out of the hands of women...
Anyone who's tried to get the rights to a play by Samuel Beckett has undoubtedly run into one of the most fundamental power struggles in the theatrical world since the development of the modern director. Beckett's works are famous for their exacting stage directions, and since his death his estate has become famous for demanding that all productions follow these directions to the letter. The demands of Beckett's estate are an extreme example of a call for authorial authority but not an abnormal one. The Dramatists Guild, the only national union of dramatic writers, encourages its members...
...Smith in The Bald Soprano hurl the socks across the stage and show her teeth as Ionesco's stage directions indicate, or does she keep her mouth closed and merely toss the socks as in Nicolas Bataille's original Paris production?) is a question about the seat of power in theatrical productions-and ultimately a question about the very nature of theater. Does the playwright, as the creator of the story being told, have the first and last word over how that story is to be staged? Or does that power fall to the director, the man or woman...
...create a unified vision." Or from the other side of the battlefield: "Only the playwright really knows his or her own work so his or her staging choices must be respected." Such arguments turn one of the most profound questions one can ask about theater into a simple power struggle between individuals, a war of egos rather than a war of critical ideologies...
...contrast to traditionalists, who study the law as a neutral institution, critical legal scholars say those with money and power manipulate the law to their own advantage. Law and economics scholars see the law as a way to achieve economic efficiency...