 She ultimately denies that it might make a difference if the product is independently valuable, on the grounds that at least as a matter of codifying our everyday assessments of achievement we do count things—running a marathon, scoring well on an examination—as achievements even though they have less independent value than, say, saving thirty lives from otherwise certain death by fire, or finding a cure for polio (Bradford 2016: 797). Accordingly, if one is to mark achievements in theatrical performance, one must state clearly what the process of preparing a performance involves, why the tasks undertaken in that process are not easy, and how these achievements are to be noticed and assessed.