Any day I can puzzle you is a good day :-)
My post was really cumulative of several, and I think my focus was not the same as yours. (I was talking about legalities and you were talking about how published scripts evolve.) My reference to "timing" was simply intended to mean that regardless of how a script evolves to its published form (whether an acting edition or otherwise), the author has to sign off on it, so to say it is the SM's version ought not be read as suggesting it is some outlier from what the author sanctioned.
As I said (I think) earlier in this thread, some authors care deeply about how their work is presented, and others simply don't. In America, in the theatre (close to uniquely), it's a wild kingdom when it comes to scripts and the control of what transpires on a stage. |
