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...FAVORITE PLAYWRIGHT WHO, THANK GOD, STILL HASN'T LOST IT: David Mamet...
...roomed with the poet Frank O'Hara and was friends with the poet John Ashbery. Gorey joined Cambridge's Poets Theater with O'Hara, where he worked as a designer, director and playwright...
...changes, for no discernible reason, some details, including the names of the actress's first husband and first Hollywood agent. Hundreds of other people in Monroe's life appear accurately named or identified by easily decoded initials. Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller are "the ex-Athlete" and "the Playwright." You can probably guess who is "the President...
...problem with Artaud's argumentation lies in his decision to ignore the playwright's role as storyteller. Regardless of whether or not one wishes to tell a story with a given piece of theater, it is impossible to put anything on a stage without telling a story on some level. Narrative, in its most basic form, is simply a direct and inevitable byproduct of time. And unlike artforms such as painting or sculpture which work only with space, both space and time are the fundamental media of theater. Artaud condemns the overemphasis on dialogue in modern theater as a means...
...Drama is about conflict, yes, but I wonder how well conflict can be portrayed by a medium already in conflict with itself. To strip the playwright of authority over the visual aspects of his or her own show is essentially to strip him or her of half the storytelling capacity of theater. The result will inevitably be a half-story all told in words. And I wonder what director would even care to try bringing a half-story to life...