Preserving The Play

“We forget that the live performing arts, and particularly theatre, are more than almost anything else at the mercy of the whims of producers. It’s difficult enough, of course, to persuade anyone to mount a new play. But once that play has finished its initial run, and at best the production revived once in a subsequent season by the same theatre, even a very good play is likely to disappear into oblivion. It’s almost a unique problem.”