Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work

who’s in charge. In fact, to produce an Albee script today a the-

atre must have his personal approval of cast and director.

This variety of attitudes about writing is only the first of

many ambiguities that make up the given circumstances of

play making. If the writer takes part in the rehearsal process,

the organization must be prepared to adjust to his or her views.

In this sense, too, the script is like a high-level architectural

rendering, standard, or plan, in that it prescribes certain

boundaries and requires certain behaviors. But those bound-

aries and behaviors are nowhere near as precise as the infor-

mation in a blueprint or process specification. ...