Dramaturging Non-Realism: Creating a New Vocabulary

Abstract

Dramaturgs in America are trained primarily to work with realist texts that have linear plots, familiar settings, and full and consistent characters with texts and subtexts that combine to create a coherent theme. However, dramaturgs work increasingly with non-realist scripts that have fragmented story lines, dream-like settings, and figures who speak in abstract poetry, so that meaning emerges from associative images and is often left unarticulated. Such scripts require the dramaturg to follow different research protocols, to ask different questions of a production, and to develop different relationships with spectators, actors, and directors.

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