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Contemporary American Playwriting: The Issue of Legacy

Contemporary American Playwriting: The Issue of Legacy Contemporary ameriCan playwriting The issue of legacy Jason grote, Caridad Svich, and anne washburn in conversation with Ken Urban D espite proclamations to the contrary, there is a surge of new writing in the American theatre. Not plays masquerading as films or TV shows, but serious plays written by writers with a passionate commitment to the stage. But since this new generation of theatre artists is less centralized than previous ones, working in cities and towns across the U.S., it is hard to talk about a specific movement or scene. For those working in New York City, Off-Off Broadway no longer adequately describes the theatre that these playwrights create. Such writers do not want to be defined in relation to Broadway, for Broadway ceased to be a venue for adventurous new writing decades ago. This conversation is an attempt by four playwrights to define some of the identifying characteristics and concerns of this new writing. The starting point is the issue of legacy: How do the historical avant-garde, the Language Playwrights of the 1970s and 80s (Mac Wellman, Jeffrey Jones, Len Jenkin), and the classics influence contemporary playwriting? To gain a better sense of what is happening now, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

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MIT Press
Copyright
© 2006 Jason Grote, Caridad Svich, and Anne Washburn
Subject
Interview
ISSN
1520-281X
eISSN
1537-9477
DOI
10.1162/pajj.2006.28.3.11
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Contemporary ameriCan playwriting The issue of legacy Jason grote, Caridad Svich, and anne washburn in conversation with Ken Urban D espite proclamations to the contrary, there is a surge of new writing in the American theatre. Not plays masquerading as films or TV shows, but serious plays written by writers with a passionate commitment to the stage. But since this new generation of theatre artists is less centralized than previous ones, working in cities and towns across the U.S., it is hard to talk about a specific movement or scene. For those working in New York City, Off-Off Broadway no longer adequately describes the theatre that these playwrights create. Such writers do not want to be defined in relation to Broadway, for Broadway ceased to be a venue for adventurous new writing decades ago. This conversation is an attempt by four playwrights to define some of the identifying characteristics and concerns of this new writing. The starting point is the issue of legacy: How do the historical avant-garde, the Language Playwrights of the 1970s and 80s (Mac Wellman, Jeffrey Jones, Len Jenkin), and the classics influence contemporary playwriting? To gain a better sense of what is happening now,

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PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press

Published: Sep 1, 2006

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