Talk:Richard France (writer)

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proposed change

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

What I think should be changed: I am proposing additional information to the end of the "Film and Television" section. At the end of the last paragraph please include the following sentence: France was also one of the scholarly consultants for the 2023 Welles documentary, American: An Odyssey to 1947, by filmmaker Danny Wu.
Why it should be changed: This is additional information not covered elsewhere in the article.
References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button): https://www.american1947.com/new-page ^[1]

BelleScholar (talk) 01:24, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Cast". American: An Odyssey to 1947. Retrieved 28 December 2024.

Done But found an independent source. PK650 (talk) 21:27, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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What I think should be changed: Replacing the first paragraph of the “Playwriting and production” section with the following paragraph:

In 1960, France left New York City for San Francisco where he would remain for four years, writing nearly a dozen plays whose central characters were "eccentric characters... locked in open conflict with the established order, which eventually destroys them". His once-act play, The Image of Elmo Doyle, premiered at the Yale School of Drama in October 1964 and was restaged by the Institute of Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts in New York the following June. In 1970, the distinguished Japanese playwright-scholar, Masakazu Yamazaki, translated the play for the Walnut Theatre in Kyoto. (Yamazaki would subsequently translate The Theatre of Orson Welles.) Nine years later, The Image of Elmo Doyle would be included in The Best Short Plays of 1979.

Why it should be changed: I'm proposing some changes to the sentence-structure of this paragraph to improve its readability and clarify the events described in the second half of the paragraph.

References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button): All information and sources are the same, this request is primarily regarding writing-style.

BelleScholar (talk) 22:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

[1] "Cast". American: An Odyssey to 1947. Retrieved 28 December 2024.

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