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Un by the author and continued by the producer, and if reasonable
liberty is not accorded to him--if either the author or the producer
attempts to do too much of the creative work--the result cannot be
satisfactory. As the rehearsals proceed the play changes from day to
day. However autocratic the producer, however obstinate the dramatist,
the play will vary at each rehearsal like a large cloud in a gentle
wind. It is never the same play for two days together. Nor is this
surprising, seeing that every day and night a dozen, or it may be two
dozen, human beings endowed with the creative gift are creatively
working on it. Every dramatist who is candid with himself--I do not
suggest that he should be candid to the theatrical world--well knows
that though his play is often worsened by his collaborators it is also
often improved,--and improved in the most mysterious and dazzling
manner--without a word being altered. Producer and actors do not merely
suggest possibilities, they execute them. And the author is confronted
by artistic phenomena for which lawfully he may not claim credit. On the
other hand, he may be confronted by inartistic phenomena in respect to
which lawfully he is blameless, but which he cannot prevent; a rehearsal
is like a battle,--certain persons are theoretically in control, but in
fact the thing principally fights itself. And thus the creation goes on
until the dress-rehearsal, when it seems to have come to a stop. And the
dramatist lying awake in the night reflects, stoically, fatalistically:
"Well, that is the play that they
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