Contemporary Ukrainian Dramaturgy: Challenging Audience, Changing Theatre
During the post-Soviet period, Ukrainian dramaturgy lagged behind prose and poetry and was almost...
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“Alice’s Adventures Underground”: New Immersive Limits Down the Rabbit Hole
“Drink me” or “Eat me.” Like Neo, in The Matrix, you are presented with a simple dichotomy that...
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Walter Byongsok Chon on Dramaturgy: Interview with LMD
Walter Byongsok Chon is an assistant professor of dramaturgy and theatre studies at Ithaca...
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Ivo van Hove’s “Scenes from a Marriage”
Intimacy burns. A couple pummels each other in an endlessly repetitive cycle from which there is...
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A Contemporary Korean Play Meets A New York Audience
The article below is one I wrote for the E-Newsletter Hamilton Dramaturgy’s ScriptForward! back in...
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Contemporary New Play Development in Italy: A Playwright Shares Her Experience
“While Italy this year is celebrating 150 years as a single nation state, in many fields any sense of unity is still tenuous. Theatre and contemporary playwriting are no exceptions to this rule.” – Margaret Rose
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Welsh Theatre – Curse or Blessing?
“Though we have a nascent theatre tradition, we do have a long tradition of performance…Our writers are indicative of a nation that is still wrestling…with positive identifications of self.” – Ian Rowlands
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Talking Dramaturgy with Gareth Vile: Uncertainty, Confusion, Parody
Interview with Gareth Vile, Theatre Editor for the List, former Theatre Editor for the Skinny and...
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The Dramaturgical Notion of Counter-text
The role of the dramaturg within text-based theatre is currently prescriptive and limiting. There...
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Immersive Theatre: Towards a Dramaturgy of Participation
As participatory theatre saturates the mainstream, here’s Persis Jade Maravala and Jorge...
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“The Waiting Room,” IVF And The Sanctity Of Sex–Review
Kylie Trounson is a writer and playwright–and the daughter of Melbourne IVF pioneer Alan Trounson....
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We Can’t Get Those Two Hours Back–Drama Works As Time Unfolds
This is a long-read essay, the second in a series on playwriting and drama by Julian Meyrick. Part...
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Need A Stage Coach? Why Some Plays Work, And Others Don’t
We all know whether a given play, film or TV drama “works” or not, but it’s often difficult to...
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Terrorism, Truth, and Trust – How Dramaturgy Informs Real Life
Drama and its core principles are to be found in theatres while the real world goes on outside,...
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Magda Romanska on Dramaturgy and Opera
BLO: What is a dramaturg? MR: In its broadest and earliest definition, dramaturgy means a...
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Walter Byongsok Chon on Dramaturgy: Interview with 2AM Theatre
Walter Byongsok Chon is an assistant professor of dramaturgy and theatre studies at Ithaca...
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