Confessions of a Playwright Cast as a Dramaturg
Award-winning playwright Kyle Bass on the importance of being a dramaturg-- at least for awhile
Getting under the hood, if you will, of a theater can teach a young-in-the-craft playwright more than a valuable thing or two: how scripts actually come to life in that lit end of the room; what the empty space dares and demands of those who dare write to fill it; that bicycles and open umbrellas have simple majesty upon the stage; that audiences give up part of their lives to see our work, so make it worthy; and in the right moment, in the right scene, sometimes something simple simply stated is all we need.
