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Sunday, May 20, 2012

The End of ‘New Writing’?

Exeunt Magazine: Before you come at me with the brickbats and rotten tomatoes, let me first explain what I am not talking about.
I am not talking about getting rid of writers, or plays, putting on plays by first time writers or young writers or not quite as young as they once were writers. I am still as passionate as I ever was about putting on plays written by all kinds of people.
What I am talking about is re-thinking and re-fashioning of the processes, assumptions and aesthetics that make up the sub-genre of British theatre known as New Writing, and most particularly an end to the, in my opinion, unnecessary opposition between New Writing and New Work.

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