Play Directing, 7th Edition

Appendix 2

The Director and the Dramaturg

 

 

 

In the closing decades of the twentieth century, another figure began to be encountered more frequently in the American theatre—the dramaturg, or literary manager. Long a fixture in European theatre, dramaturgs, or literary managers, began to find a place in America as institutional theatres took hold and became a permanent part of the way theatre is produced in the United States. Today, many of the large and medium-size resident theatres, and even some smaller ones, have a dramaturg as a part of the staff. What exactly is this position and what is its relationship to the work of the director? And what is dramaturgy as a specialization within the theatre?

In terms of play structure, the term dramaturgy ...