Nicholas Hytner has become a star as he turns around the fortunes of London’s National Theatre. “Allying a series of bold, eye-catching plays with a policy of massively cutting ticket prices, Hytner’s vision has paid off spectacularly. New audiences packed its auditoriums for everything from headline-making Jerry Springer: the Opera to an ambitious production of Philip Pullman’s children’s bestseller His Dark Materials to David Hare’s savagely docu-realist account of the run-up to the Iraq war, Stuff Happens. Hytner was widely credited with reviving not just the National, but theatre at large.”
Tag: 03.06.06
In The Politics Of Plagiarizing
Joseph Epstein discovers someone has plagiarized his work. That gets him to thinking: “I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism–of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.”