Highlights from ATHE 2020: Playwrights and Creative Teams Focus Group: Is There an Aesthetics of Playwriting? Or Why Don't We Talk about How Beautiful Our Plays Are Anymore?

[...]the dominant mode of teaching creative writing, the writing workshop, pioneered by the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop, instills writing practices that came of age after World War II. [...]we reflect on ways that thinking about creative practice and the aesthetic process i...

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Published in:Theatre topics 2021-03, Vol.31 (1), p.E
Main Authors: Carneiro, Ana Cândida, Willenbrink, Hank
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Bennett, Eric
Creative writing
Creativity
Dramatists
Focus Groups
Literary Genres
Neoliberalism
Playwriting
Racial Differences
Social justice
Theater
Workshops
Writers
Writing Instruction
Writing Workshops
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Summary:[...]the dominant mode of teaching creative writing, the writing workshop, pioneered by the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop, instills writing practices that came of age after World War II. [...]we reflect on ways that thinking about creative practice and the aesthetic process inform one another and can be changed to move away from questions of craft toward creative practices that offer greater potentiality. [...]we gesture toward ways in which awareness of aesthetics influences identity and perception and may be used to work toward justice in playwriting by offering new spheres for practice rather than playing into the power structures of neoliberalism.
ISSN:1054-8378
1086-3346