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PHYSICAL POETRY David Grieg in conversation with Caridad Svich D avid Greigâs play The American Pilot received its U.S. premiere December 2006 at Manhattan Theatre Club, in New York City, under Lynne Meadowâs direction. Although Greig is a top-drawer talent in his native Scotland and across Europe, his work has only recently been finding its way to American shores. Of the same generation as Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, Phyllis Nagy, and Anthony Neilson, Greigâs work is both of and apart from the 1990s UK new brutalist writing movementââof â because his work shares with Ravenhill and Kaneâs a formalist, classicist concern with the effects of violence on society and individuals, and âapartâ because his dramas tend to focus outward instead of inward. His plays avoid the âbed-sitâ and instead stretch across open spaces and different countries. Greigâs plays are often epic in scope and historical in nature, whether the emphasis is on recent or ancient history. Carving his stories with great detail and depth of vision, Greig writes primarily tales of individuals struggling with the burdens and regrets of memory. His central figuresâusually men, and usually lonersâare possessed by a desire to remake history (their own or their
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: May 1, 2007
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