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dramaturgy

d ro muh ter jee

  • n  the art of writing and producing plays

  • Consistent with such prejudice and with the black-hat, white-hat needs of early dramaturgy Passion plays presented Jews as money-grubbing Christ killers, a dramatic .
  • The dramaturgy is part Neil Simon, part Oscar Micheaux; the music mixes elements of Dreamgirls and the Ebenezer Baptist Church choir; the tone is a violent blend of the earthy and .
  • It's Lee's usual mix of slapdash dramaturgy and sharp performances; note especially Paul Mooney, cogent and sexy as Pierre's dad, and Thomas Jefferson Byrd as the Mantan show's .
News & Articles

  • Versenyi starts as dramatic art chair
    Adam Versenyi is the new chairman for The Department of Dramatic Arts at UNC . He received his B.A. in the Combined Major in English and Spanish from Yale, as well as his M.F.A. and D.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.
    Feb. 20, 2014 - The Daily Tar Heel
Quotes

  • Zadie Smith in The National
    At least not completely: Writing in the New York Review of Books earlier this year, Zadie Smith pointed out that Kafka "indulged in a relentless dramaturgy of the self."
  • Susan Sontag in Jerusalem Post
    Janacek was dazzlingly original in the way he took subjects and turned them into operatic subjects. There is absolutely no model for the dramaturgy of this piece. It's still modern in its construction now and yet he had no contact with all the... David Pountney http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pountney&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFK4VkF3dWnB0i3t-hJRn-iOxxoHA Jerusalem Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fcid%3D1233304855184%26pagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFj2_YvXW5VGJd1Is3gtpR2gYDPgg Feb 23, 2009 30217 38997 dramaturgy The dramaturgy of 'acting on principle,'" Sontag shrewdly suggested, tells dissidents - like Ishai Menuchin, the soldier who refused to serve beyond the 1967 borders of Israel - that their actions are good even if they are not expedient.

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