A dramaturg is (according to the BF) the advocate of the play in the production process. He supports the work with research--he might, for example, give the directors and designers a historic overview of the period they picked and how it might tie in with the play, or research unusual language in the piece. He also works with the writer--if there is one--on rewrites if needed, and on things like theme and structure. In a theatre with a full season, the Literary Manager will be choosing work for the next season (reading and critiquing hundreds of plays) and can't work on each play in rehearsal with the writer and director. In smaller theaters, one person does everything.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Scrappy - Dec 28, 2004 5:17:15 pm PST #6735 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jesse - Dec 28, 2004 5:18:52 pm PST #6736 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, I want that job.
sarameg - Dec 28, 2004 5:21:48 pm PST #6737 of 10002
Consuela, I finished up Demon in the Freezer (about smallpox) on the plane and Ken Alibek figured prominently. I'm going to have to go out and get it now...
Ginger - Dec 28, 2004 5:25:14 pm PST #6738 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I listened to Germs (about biological weapons) while driving home, and Ken Alibek was in that too. Was it officially scary disease reading week?
sarameg - Dec 28, 2004 5:27:27 pm PST #6739 of 10002
I try to read the most seatmate fear-inducing book as possible on flights.
(not really, it just happens, Maybe just the subconscious.)
meara - Dec 28, 2004 5:31:58 pm PST #6740 of 10002
I try to read the most seatmate fear-inducing book as possible on flights.
I was reading a book in which the New Madrid fault goes off (what's the proper word for that??) and there's all kinds of madness and people die and shit. That was kinda freaky, as I was heading towards the midwest...
sarameg - Dec 28, 2004 5:35:16 pm PST #6741 of 10002
For some reason, prior to the Death!Plague! books, every airplane book featured a plane crash as the central theme. Or, you know...genocide.
"Hi! Can I sit here? Would you like to discuss Armenia? "
Consuela - Dec 28, 2004 5:59:43 pm PST #6742 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Okay, that's a very weird coincidence. In fact, the only reason I got it was because my brother is an infectious disease specialist and he's doing some work with the staff at Vector, flying off to Siberia every few months. It's world-saving sort of stuff and I'm extremely chuffed. So he said I needed to read Biohazard and while I'm glad I did, I'm also very unnerved by it.
Betsy HP - Dec 28, 2004 7:00:04 pm PST #6743 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Thanks, Robin. So the Literary Manager is also the dramaturg?
Scrappy - Dec 28, 2004 7:04:10 pm PST #6744 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Betsy--Well, sometimes. you can be one without being the other, but due to how small and broke most theaters are these days, most places only have one--or none for that matter. You might like this site: [link]