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Why don't American screenwriters own the copyrights to their scripts, as playwrights do, and as (I'm told) screenwriters in Europe do?
Lately, we Americans even seem more interested in our own playwrights when we see them reflected back at us by the Brits.
When the National Theatre staged his first full-length stage play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , in 1967 (he had previously done radio pieces for the BBC), he joined the fashionable ranks of such English playwrights as Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter.
Their home is now the apron-staged Festival Theatre, while the Avon Theatre and Third Stage put on alternative fare, offering jazz and chamber-music concerts as well as a chance to discover Canadian playwrights.
Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile.