Introduction to Production

CHAPTER 4Creating Theatre

The Creators articulate a dream

THE ROLE OF THE PLAYWRIGHT

Temporarily putting aside the business side of organizing a production, it is necessary to begin considering the artistic components. A production in the theatre emanates from a play, a play script, a concept, or a devised work for the theatre (from which a script may ultimately issue through collaborative or improvisatory work by a group of people, rather than from a writer or writers). Our focus now shifts to the primary artist, the playwright. It is their written script or theatrical conception that a producer secures for possible performance. Within the script the playwright sets down the dialogue that is to be spoken by the actors performing the various ...