Words for the Theatre: Four Essays on the Dramatic Text

ISBN-13: 9781138240636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 68 str.

David Cole

Opis

Each of Words for the Theatre four essays is a moment of dramaturgical self-reflection, debating the questions: the playwright both represents and supplies materials for others to represent - how are the two related? The playwright produces a text whose eventual future is to be an event - isn't this the ambition of all writing? The playwright withdraws from theatre into writing, to produce works for theatre - can this withdrawal-into-writing be seen in theatre itself? How should a playwright deal with theatre's pressure toward realism, given that this realism is a mistake about art to which theatre is particularly prone?

O autorze

David Cole is a playwright who has written two prior books of dramatic theory: The Theatrical Event and the Nathan Award-winning Acting as Reading. His plays may be found at www.davidcoleplaysandprose.com.