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Dramaturgy in American Theater:
A Source Book

A 600+ page anthology of essays, articles, and resource materials on dramaturgy and literary management from over 40 contributors edited by Susan Jonas and Geoff Proehl with consulting editor, Michael Lupu. Available from Harcourt Brace College Publishers in December of 1996. This book would not have been possible without the support of LMDA(Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas) To order, contact Barnes and Noble on the web through "The Theatre Store" at "dramaturgy.net."

• Table of Contents and Contributors
• Add your name to a list of individuals who teach dramaturgy and would like more information about the book including requests for an examination copy (note where you teach, average class size, and when you next plan on offering a dramaturgy course): e-mail gproehl@ups.edu or call Geoff Proehl at 253-879-3101.
• Contact the editors with other questions or suggestions regarding this project: e-mail gproehl@ups.edu or call Geoff Proehl at 253-879-3101.

Section I: Precedents and New Beginnings
Section II: Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility
Section III: Models of Collaboration
Section IV: New Contexts
Section V: Developing New Works
Appendix

Introduction 
        
Acknowledgements
        
Section I: Precedents and New Beginnings 
        
Preview
        
Anne Cattaneo
   Dramaturgy: An Overview
        
Joel Schechter
    In the Beginning There Was Lessing. . . Then Brecht, 
       Muller, and Other Dramaturgs
        
Martin Esslin
   TOWARDS AN AMERICAN DRAMATURG: Adapting the function of 
      dramaturgy to US Conditions
        
Jonathan Marks
   On Robert Brustein and Dramaturgy
       
Robert Brustein
        
   From "The Future of an Un-American Activity"
        
Jonathan Kalb
   Notes for a Definition
        

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Section II: Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility 
        
Preview
        
Oscar G. Brockett
   Dramaturgy In Education: Introduction
        
Mark Bly
   Bristling with Multiple Possibilities
Art Borreca
   Dramaturging New Play Dramaturgy: The Yale and Iowa 
      Models
     
Jane Ann Crum
   Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility
Arthur Ballet
   Why in the Hell Are We So Serious?
        
Heidi Gilpin
   Shaping Critical Spaces: Issues in the Dramaturgy of 
      Movement Performance
        
Mark Lord
   The Dramaturgy Reader
        
Richard Pettengill
   Dramaturging Education
Michael Lupu
   There Is Clamor in the Air
Leon Katz
   The Compleat Dramaturg
        

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Section III: Models of Collaboration 
        
Preview
        
Geoff Proehl
   The Images Before Us: Metaphors for the Role 
      of the Dramaturg in American Theater
     
Tori Haring-Smith
   The Dramaturg as Androgyne: Thoughts on the Nature of 
      Dramaturgical Collaboration
        
Allen Kuharski
   Joseph Chaikin and the Presence of the Dramaturg
        
Mira Rafalowicz
   Mira Rafalowicz: Dramaturg in Collaboration with Joseph 
      Chaikin
        
Royston Coppenger and Travis Preston
   The Way We Work Together
        
Gregory Gunter 
   Exploration Through Imagery: Gregory Gunter Talks About 
      Working with Anne Bogart
        
"How to Talk to a Playwright": Panel Discussion with Steve 
   Carter, Constance Congdon, John Glore, Philip Kan 
   Gotanda, Eric Overmyer, and Sandy Shinner
        
Allen Kennedy
   Professional Theater and Education: Contexts for Dramaturgy 
        
Richard Pettengill
   Education and Community Programs at the Goodman Thea-
      ter, 1996     
        
Lee Devin
   Conceiving the Forms: Play Analysis for Production 
      Dramaturgy
        
John H. Lutterbie
   Theory and the Practice of Dramaturgy
        

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Section IV: New Contexts 
        
Preview
        
Susan Jonas
   The Dramaturg-Director: Aiming the Canon at Now 
        
Carl Weber
   Foreign Drama in Translation--Some Reflections on 
      Otherness, Xenophobia, the Translator's Task, and the 
      Problems They Present
        
Jayme Koszyn
   The Dramaturg and the Irrational (Case Study of Euri-
      pides's Iphigenia in Aulis and Tauris at the Huntington  
      Theater Company)
Jim Niesen
   Textual Collidings: Group Dramaturgy and the Irondale 
      Ensemble Project (Case Study of Outside the Law, an 
      adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It by Irondale 
      Ensemble)
        
Cary M. Mazer
   Rebottling: Dramaturgs, Scholars, Old Plays, and Modern 
      Directors (Case Study of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi 
      at the University of Pennsylvania)
        
Robert Falls, Richard Pettengill, Walter Bilderback
   Production Dramaturgy for MoliŠre's The Misanthrope at 
      La Jolla Playhouse and the Goodman: Panel Discussion 
     
James Magruder
   Love Has Entered my Vocabulary: A Cautionary Tale (Case 
      Study of The Triumph of Love, a Translation of Mar-
      viaux's Le Triomphe de l'amour)     
        
Elizabeth C. Ramirez
   Multicultural Approaches in Dramaturgy (Case Study of 
      One Crazy Day, an adaptation of Beaumarchais' Marriage 
      of Figaro at Arizona Theater)
        
Laurence Maslon
   With a Song in My Art: Dramaturgy and the American 
      Musical Theater (Case Study of On the Town, Of Thee I 
      Sing, and I'd Rather be Right at the Arena Stage)
        
Harriet Power
   Re-imagining the Other: A Multiracial Production of Mad 
      Forest (Case Study of Caryl Churhill's Mad Forest at 
      Philadelphia's Venture Theater) 
        

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Section V: Developing New Works 
        
Preview
        
Scott T. Cummings
   Garden or Ghetto?: The Paradoxy of New Play Development
        
Stephen Weeks
   How to Do It: A Brief History of Professional Advice
        
Leon Katz
   Mea Culpa, Nostra Culpa
        
Morgan Jenness and Paul Selig
   Morgan Jenness Tells the Truth to Paul Selig: An Inter-
      view
        
Michael Bigelow Dixon
   The Dramaturgical Dialogue: New Play Dramaturgy at 
      Actors Theatre of Louisville
        
Mame Hunt and Susan Mason
   A Conversation with Mame Hunt, Dramaturg-Artistic 
      Director, and Susan Mason, Dramaturg-Academic
        
Tim Sanford
   The Dramaturgy of Reading: Literary Management Theory
        
Paul C. Castagno
   New Play Development and the "New" Dramaturg: the 
      Dramaturg's Approach to the First Draft
        
Suzan L. Zeder
   The Once and Future Audience: Dramaturgy and Children's 
      Theater
        
Susan Finque
   Making Theater from a Queer Aesthetic 
        
Tony Kushner and Susan Jonas
   Tony Kushner's Angels: An Interview with Tony Kushner 
      Conducted by Susan Jonas 
        
Norman Frisch and Marianne Weems
   Dramaturgy on the Road to Immortality: Inside the 
      Wooster Group 
        

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Appendix
        
Preview
        
Glossary
        
Some Relevant Dates
        
Dramaturgy: A Compendium of Quotes
        
Victoria Abrash
   Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
        
Anne Cattaneo
   Methods of Dramaturgy
        
Deborah A. Torres and Martha Vander Kolk
   Guide to Theater Resources on the INTERNET
        
Bibliography 
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Questions, comments, and suggestions, etc. to Geoff Proehl: gproehl@ups.edu.