Project Description
A dramaturg is an advocate for the play – there to support the production in many and varied ways. Neither a critic nor a cheerleader, the dramaturg asks and answers inquisitive and intelligent questions while sometimes redirecting a productions’s course back to the text. The dramaturg analyzes the text, not only as a work of literature, but also through the lens of practical production. They often act as an outside eye, even while maintaining a trusting and collaborative relationship with the director and other members of a production’s creative team.
Professors Bjorkland and Wilcoxen’s dramaturgy project is designed to help guide students who are engaging in dramaturgy at St. Olaf College, and to preserve their work for future use and study. It provides a history of the practice of dramaturgy and a selection of resources and tools for commencing research on a dramaturgy project. But more importantly it serves as a repository for dramaturgy developed around St. Olaf theater productions. It guides students in creating a linked WordPress site to help them convey their research and findings to actors, directors and others involved in mounting a production.
The Dramaturgy website is only accessible using a St. Olaf login.
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