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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