Abstract
When contemporary playwrights are asked what it is like to work in theatre, every one answers differently. Edward Bond talks about challenging the actors:
In a lot of modern theatre writing, what is important is the throwing back of the line to each other, like playing tennis, whereas my dialogue is like tennis players playing billiards. They have that sort of rapport, but they also have to have this plotting and scheming.1
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See M. C. Bradbrook, The Rise of the Common Player (London: Chatto, 1962)
Jean Genet, Reflections on the Theatre and Other Writings, tr. Richard Seaver (London: Faber, 1972) pp. 40–1.
Letter to Paule Thévenen (24 February 1948), as quoted by Martin Esslin in his own translation, in Artaud (London: Fontana, Collins, 1976) pp. 89–90.
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Brown, J.R. (1996). Theatre. In: William Shakespeare: Writing for Performance. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24634-2_1
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