First-Person: Joseph Shragge on The Heretics of Bohemia
Dramaturgy of DisappointmentFailure in the Face of Comic Expectationsby Joseph Shragge"Humor, I suppose, consecrates nonexistence." Lionel Abel, Metatheatre: a new view of dramatic formThe moment genre is invoked, expectations emerge. The process of dramaturgy for our upcoming play The Heretics of Bohemia consistently raised the question, "what is this?" Knowing the piece was a comedy di…