Dramaturgy


Waiting for Godot
Hamlet
Macbeth: Moment by Moment
Othello
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
A Doll's House
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
The Cherry Orchard
Tartuffe
King Lear
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Seagull
Poetics
Erving Goffman
individuals are concerned not with the moral issue of realizing these standards, but with the amoral issue of engineering a convincing impression that these standards are being realized. Our activity, then, is largely concerned with moral matters, but as performers we do not have a moral concern in these moral matters. As performers we are merchants of morality. Our day is given over to intimate contact with the goods we display and our minds are filled with intimate understandings of them; but ...more
Erving Goffman

Isak Dinesen
He was not dogmatic enough to believe that you must have boards and footlights to be within the theater; he carried the stage with him in his heart.
Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

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