Hi George
welcome.
Poetic plays will do just fine, & you're sure into interesting thinking
about that space. I'm sure Alison will be interested in talking to you
when she gets back from your left coast.
Doug
On 8-Nov-05, at 10:48 AM, George Hunka wrote:
> Listfolk,
>
> I've just joined the list and have been reading through the archives,
> notably lacking in "Introduction" items, but since I felt it would be
> better manners to introduce myself than to start posting merrily away
> without warning, I just wanted to briefly say hello.
>
> I'm a playwright from New York City who's recently been thinking about
> issues regarding the poetics of theatrical space and the theatrical
> body (i.e., Grotowski and Artaud), as well as the presence of the
> lyrical voice in contemporary dramatic literature. My own background
> is in Languages and Literature; at Bard College in New York many years
> ago I studied with writers like Robert Duncan and William Gaddis, but
> am just picking up their work again after some time and trying to
> integrate some of their ideas into my own dramatic technique. Most
> recently, I've been reading Bataille's "Erotism" and Grotowski's
> "Towards a Poor Theatre," trying to see how this all fits together
> into some kind of dramatic erotics. At the moment I'm thinking about
> exploring this through the Phaedra myth, but am only just starting on
> the research. Most recently, a workshop production of my plays "In
> Private / In Public" closed last month following a brief
> off-off-Broadway run in New York.
>
> Although I'm not a poet per se, I'm finding much more inspiration
> these days in lyric poetry and the study of poetics, so forgive me
> please if on occasion I seem somewhat mis- or ill-informed. However, I
> did hope that this list might provide some community and inspiration.
> You'd be surprised how little anyone writes about these concerns in
> the American playwriting community these days, at least that community
> as it exists away from the academy.
>
> I write a little about this, off-and-on, at my own blog. It's here, if
> there's any interest: http://www.ghunka.com.
>
> I look forward to continuing to read poetryetc and occasionally to
> joining in if I'm so inclined.
>
> Best wishes,
> George Hunka
>
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