Playwrights at Work by Paris Review

Playwrights at Work by Paris Review

The third installment in the Modern Library's Paris Review Writers at Work series, this is an all-new gathering of interviews with the most important and compelling playwrights of our time. Their singular takes on their craft, their influences, their lives, the state of contemporary theater, and the tricks of the trade create an illuminating and unparalleled record of the life of the theater itself.

At its best, theater is an antidote to the whiff of barbarity in the millennial air. 'My feeling is that people in a group, en masse, watching something, react differently, and perhaps more profoundly, than they do when they're alone in their living rooms, ' Arthur Miller says here. In the dark, facing the stage, surrounded by others, the paying customer can let himself go; he is emboldened. The theatrical encounter allows a member of the public to think against received opinions. He can submerge himself in the extraordinary, admit his darkest, most infantile wishes, feel the pulse of the contemporary, hear the sludge of street talk turned into poetry. This enterprise can be joyous and dangerous; when the theater's game is good and tense, it is both.
--from the Introduction by John Lahr

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ISBN 13	9780679640219
ISBN 10	0679640215
Title	Playwrights at Work
Author	Paris Review
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-05-30
Number of pages	432
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