dramaturgy

appropriating some familiar classics

An examination of how playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins uses the traditions of the Classic American Family Drama to explore questions of race and family in appropriate.

Andre’s Mother

MOTHERS & SONS opens with a monologue: a middle-aged man tells an older woman about the view from the window they stand in front of. The man, Cal, jokes about joggers and his family. The woman, Katharine, says nothing. As it …

Notes from Dramaturg Walt McGough

“We do not know what the dragon means, just as we do not know the meaning of the universe, but there is something in the image of the dragon that is congenial to man’s imagination, and thus the dragon arises …