Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility: Landscape and Journey

Teacher, dramaturg, and director Proehl (U. of Puget Sound, Washington State) argues that the attempt to know the dramaturgy of a play is little different from the attempt to know another person for whom we care deeply. Using the metaphor of landscape, he explores conversation with a play or collaborators, pleasure, and the pattern that is a play's dramaturgy. Then he shifts to journey to explain how to engage, explore, and respond to a play's dramaturgy. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)